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Let's impeach Scully!

OMFG -- could we just ask to see a little symbol -- maybe this one

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to represent a smooch being applied to the indicated orifice -- next to the byline of every reporter who attends that thing every year? Or we could brand them, I suppose.

But Jesus, any so called correspondent who attends that thing ought to come with a warning label.

Rich Little? I guess Robin Williams was unavailable...and that guy takes any job. I guess after "Man of the Year" being about as successful as Bush's own presidency, it's a little on the nose.

A more appropriate match to Rich Little would have been a Jaywalking clip.

I don't get it... why was that #1 funniest moment funny?

@southerndem:
I believe if you read his lips he's saying "What the f#*&?" But I had to watch it three times to get that. Maybe it was more...

Reassuring that he wonders WTF Bush is doing too..

I have new respect for Letterman for not showing up. Strangely enough, I was actually at a Yoga class that same morning. It's one of the only ways I can deal with the disillusionment and existential funk that is The Bush Administration. Ohmmm...

It's hard to see in the video, but he hocks a humongous loogie. Just pretend there's a copy of the Constitution at his feet.

I appreciated the brave and eloquent plea for handgun control.

Oh, I forgot. I was at another event. People there were wearing black, too, so you can understand my confusion.

You people just didn't get it, did you?

Rich Little was brilliant! Did you see how subversive he was? Even more subversive than Colbert! So subversive, you had to take the elevator to the basement to see the hidden meaning in his jokes.

Hunters. HUNTERS - like Cheney, get it?

So, three hunters (Wolfowitz, Cheney & Rumsfeld) are looking at animal tracks and each one reads them differently.

See? It's a a metaphor for Iraq! They all have different interpretations of what's going on there.

"Those are deer tracks!" ("We'll be greeted with flowers")

"No, those are elk tracks!" (We'll be greeted as liberators! They're in the last throes of the insurgency")

"No, you dummies, those are obviously moose tracks!" ("The war could last six days, six weeks; I doubt six months.")

And while they're standing there arguing, they're struck by the oncoming train. Which is a metaphor for … Al Qaeda. Or impeachment. Or some other brilliant punchline, jeez, don't ask me, I'm not a comedian.

See? Sneakily subversive. What else would you expect from a Canadian?

God, how I do miss those Bob Hope Specials.

Let's recall that Colbert played to almost no laughs last year in the room. The difference is that Colbert stabbed everyone in the room with a very long sword and made them wear their guts for garters. Hard to get folks to laugh under such circumstances. People outside the room got the jokes.

This stuff... Dear God, this was awful. Bad material, no timing, no energy... Andy Kaufman intentionally not being funny was never this not funny.

@MattyBoyFromPSP: My GRANDmother is funnier than this. Of course with her Alzheimer's, she never even pretends to have a punchline.

See what happens when you go for Rich Little instead of Colin Mochrie.

Rich Little For President!

Next year: Hire Michelle Malkin and Ann Colter to do a ventriloquism, juggling and glass-walking new vaudeville routine!

Thanks for the enlightenment. Instead of a Hamm comedian we got a Clov comedian. Personally, I wish he had been cloven. With an ax.

What, no reception and after-party write-ups?

@MattyBoyFromPSP: Remember, Scalia was busting up last year. Say what you will about his jurisprudence, Justice Scalia has a sense of humor.

Steve Scully with his hideous death's head grin is the bad guy who should never live down having made the decision to hire Rich Little. If you watch the video you can see him turned away from the podium, looking at the president and Tony Snow, a cadaverous chipmunk grimace on his face, checking out their reactions. As the flop sweat washed over the dais, Scully was a living exemplar of death by a thousand "Huh?'s" Never forget, never forgive.

Remember, we have Letterman to blame for Rich Little getting the gig -- someone watched "Impressionists Week" and thought "Hey -- Rich Little! He's still alive! Let's get him!"

I tried to start a letter-writing campaign to get Little to do a faithful recreation of Colbert's act from last year. I blame you guys for not helping me talk him into it. And this is your reward, you visionless bastards.

SNL needs to hire Little to do McCain in the presidential debate sketches.

"Eh?"

@VforVilsack:

Rash assumption #1: WALNUTS! will still be around at debate time.

Rash Assumption #2: There will be debates

Rash assumption #3: It looks like I got into some poison ivy somewhere (don't sneer - it was funny enough to get me an invoite to perform a.

(trying yet again)

… an invite to perform at next year's WHCA laff riot.

(goddam comments page and its Secret Keystrokes!)

next year they'll have that laugh riot Herman Goering.

I like how at the end of the Letterman sketch Bush turns to some faceless administration creep and goes "Have Jay Leno killed."

@MikeL:
As Abu Gonzo has said, "Better to be obscure, than understood."

Poor Rich Little:

They should have hired my fellow negro brother Chris Rock. At least he would have riled soem of the more stuffy Whites(crackers) folks up!!!