Tag: correspondents dinner

It’s my understanding the Buzz Killington was unavailable.

Well Colbert is finally getting more press from his appearance at the Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night: Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert’s biting routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner won a rare silent protest from Bush aides and supporters Saturday when several independently left before he finished. “Colbert crossed the line,” said one top […]

When I heard Stephen Colbert was one of the speakers at last night’s correspondents’ dinner, I thought that was a good choice. Now after I read this I realize it was not a good choice, but rather a GREAT choice: WASHINGTON A blistering comedy “tribute” to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk show host […]

On March 24, 2004, President George Bush took the spotlight as a comedian. Before the National Correspondents dinner he boosted jokes while showing slides. One joke he repeated throughout the evening involved weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. As he showed pictures of him looking under a desk he said “no weapons of mass destruction […]