OMFG! Rich Little to be guest of honor at WH correspond. dinner!!!!!

[jasmeel]

How fucking unfunny can you get???! I guess he's safer than Colbert!


http://wonkette.com/politics/rich-little/bob-hope-sadly-too-dead-to-headline-wcha-dinner-228966.php

[Divernan]

1. He'll do his tired impersonations of Regan, Nixon, etc. - pathetic.

nt

[Ian David]

2. Fucking cowards. They should have chosen David Cross. n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. They couldn't have chosen anyone more bland if they tried.

Washed up old comedians who never had anything to say to begin with - the wave of the future.

[Joe Bacon]

32. I guess they couldn't entice Yakov Smirnoff from his Branson gig!

And I guess Dennis Miller is still trying to get a gig there!

[stonecoldsober]

4. Jeez - I thought he was dead!

[Hoosier Dem]

7. He's not dead, just his career is.

[YDogg]

10. yeah. me too.

[hlthe2b]

27. damn... that's exactly my first thought...

:shrug:

[thoughtanarchist]

5. I guess Dave Chappelle had another gig that night?

:yoiks:

[SharonRB]

6. I didn't even know he was still around!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. He's still alive? (n/t)

[Orrex]

9. You Asked for It

That and the Dean Martin Roasts are the only things he's done in the past 50 years. Well, there was that HBO "Battle of Late Night" show, but that's it.

Edgy!

[Wickerman]

11. I was a young kid at the height of his fame

and even then I thought he was incredibly unfunny and did a poor job of imitating Nixon - who wasn';t that friggin' hard to imitate.

Amazing they would trot him out. Well, actually this crew? Not so amazing after all...

[quiet.american]

12. Is he still alive... I truly thought he was dead. n/t

[TlalocW]

13. I used to love Rich Little

And taught myself to do various impersonations because of him (it was fun being in 4th grade and freaking out the teacher by answering a question in the voice of Richard Nixon), but wow... He hasn't been heard from for some time.

He did some half hour to hour specials on HBO in the very early 80s (when we first got cable) where he played all the characters from, "A Christmas Carol," (W.C. Fields was Scrooge) to "Robin Hood," (Groucho Marx) that were very good for the day.

TlalocW

[Mist]

14. He's aged quite a bit--maybe he can gum his way

through a Reagan impersonation.

[tridim]

15. I guess Carrot Top and Gallagher were busy?

I know for a fact that stuffy Republicans love Gallagher, because apparently he's a genius or something.

[Hawkeye-X]

16. And the fact Gallagher is Rethuglican

I know this for a fact.

[Lost4words]

17. Hi HawkeyeX! Gallagher once said at the Kennedy center the following,

During RR's time in office.

"Hasnt anyone noticed that Ronald Reagan had the same king of growth removed from his nose that he had in his rectum.

Probably from having his head up his ass so much".





The DC crowd was split on the reaction, I laughed and clapped with great vigor.

I am surprised Gallagher "sledge-A-matic" is a puke but nothing surprises me anymore.

Maybe he should get together with Ted Nugent!

Good to see you on the board my friend. :hi:

[soothsayer]

21. Well there are 2 gallaghers (brothers) who have the same act

(one stole it from the other i think). Maybe the good one is a dem, and the stealer is a puke

[Lost4words]

24. Your Kidding? 2 Gallaghers? I must have seen the older wiser G

Really, Looks like I got some googeling to do. Live and learn I guess.

I didnt mean to insinuate that because he told an off color joke about Reagan that he might not be a repukelikin.

the Gallagher I saw was back in the Mid 80's.


Thanks for the info! :hi:

[Phredicles]

18. I'm surprised they didn't just ask Dennis Miller.

[A Simple Game]

19. Dennis is probably going to do the post show color commentary. n/t

[underpants]

20. Everyone is going to be saying "I thought Bill Frist retired"

:bounce:

[Nedsdag]

22. Rich Little hasn't been relevent in years.

The Blue Collar Comedy Guys are busy I guess.

[geardaddy]

23. Pathetic n/t

[On the Road]

25. There's Something Missing Here

Bush is honoring a rich little what?

[Poll_Blind]

26. He'll look the part doing a (current) impression of Nixon. n/t

PB

[Auntie Bush]

28. Well I thought the joke about...

How would you close the lid of the coffin on a man that overdosed on viagra? That gave me some out loud giggles. He could be pretty funny...especially if he did plenty of impersonations of 41 and 43.

[Generic Brad]

29. I told my daughter and she said "Little Richard???!"

Guess she's too young to have seen his act.

I saw Rich Little in person in 1986 and I was surprised he was still working because I had not seen him on television for years prior to that.

[Connie_Corleone]

30. Where'd they dig him up?

I thought he was dead.

[welshTerrier2]

31. prediction: he uses this old Carson "political" joke

Johnny: "It was so cold outside..."

Audience: "How cold was it?"

Johnny: "It was so cold, the politicians had their hands in their own pockets."

on Carson, kind of funny; biting political humor? ... not so much ...

this is the kind of ho-hum mediocrity you can expect ...

[MonkeyFunk]

33. he's got

8 minutes of material on Hubert Humphrey that just KILLS!

[Hippo_Tron]

34. LMAO, the problem is that Bush probably has never heard of Hubert Humphrey

[AlCzervik]

35. Wait-what? Is it 1975 again?

[Arugula Latte]

36. They're also going to dig up and re-animate Bob Hope

so he can read jokes other people wrote and put his arm around some no-talent Bimbo of the Month.

[AlCzervik]

37. i heard Joey Bishop is the opening act as well.