D.C. writers dial up retro host
Comic Little a safe choice after Colbert
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How else to explain their choice of entertainers -- impressionist Rich Little -- for this year's big dinner bash in April?
Last year, host Stephen Colbert was, in the eyes of many White House Correspondents Assn. members, way too sharp in delivering the otherwise traditionally teasing remarks about the guests, which typically include the president and vice president as well as media heavyweights.
Colbert dared to mention George Bush's 32% approval rating, urging him to look at the glass as half-full, not half-empty, and then compared him to a bloodied Rocky Balboa trying to make a comeback.
Not so long before that, Colbert's former boss, Jon Stewart, hosted the event, which he hailed as the night when White House officials and those who cover them "consummate their loveless marriage."
Hardly the stuff of Little's repertoire, which was on display in the mid-1980s when he hosted the dinner: Little and President Ronald Reagan held a "dueling press conference."
Now, that's entertainment!
