Apr.23.2007 Ouch Rich Little had a rough go of it
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is guaranteed to be a tough crowd filled with stuffed-shirts and people who generally don’t have a sense of humor. Many felt that Stephen Colbert was a bit too “edgy” and perhaps too “in their face”, so they decided to go with a safer act in impressionist Rich Little, presumably after finding out that Ray J. Johnson was unavailable.
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.
With that he pulled out one of his classics, Johnny Carson, with a joke about lawyers being “assholes,” which drew a laugh from the president, despite the off-color language.
Then he did Andy Rooney asking: “If you overdosed on Viagra how would you get the coffin closed?”
Little followed by doing six presidents, including a man he “loved,” Ronald Reagan. He put in false teeth to play Jimmy Carter saying that when he was a peanut farmer “I had the biggest nuts in the county.”
I think it’s very nice of Little. In light of the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech, President Bush decided he wouldn’t make any jokes at the dinner. Apparently, Little decided to follow suit. Nothing says “fresh” like impressions of several dead people and awful puns, including a head-shaking impression of Nixon in which he said, “I’m having a jowl movement.”
Yes, and I’m tired of Rich Little’s “pacifier” comedy…because it sucks.
Look, I didn’t say the puns were easy. I said they weren’t funny. I’M NOT THE ONE ON TRIAL HERE.
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