The Daily Background

Okay, I haven’t seen any video from last night’s annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, but apparently the comic (Rich Little– yeah, I thought he was dead by now too) was awful. E&P says he paled in comparison to last year’s appearance by Stephen Colbert, due partially to his weak impressions and partially due to his refusal to do any content that was politically current, out of an apparent desire to please the president.

He started with a couple of Canada (his native country) jokes and a weak Sen. John McCain, which bombed, as did an impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger, causing him to look at the crowd askance. “You thought Colbert was bad,” he finally joked.

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As the presidents got more recent, the impressions got weaker: George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and then possibly the worst impression of all, the current president. But he closed with the one he is most famous for, Richard Nixon, saying, “Let’s bring him out of the mothballs one more time.”

Speaking to E&P afterward, probably aware that his routine went over rather poorly, he said, “this is not the easiest audience in the world.” But he said Bush told him when it was over, “absolutely perfect.”

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