Check out the list of venues Rich Little is going to be playing other than the WH dinner!

[n2doc]

So with that hip, edgy performance fresh in mind, the Correspondents Association has announced its decidedly safer headliner for this year's April 21 bash: impressionist Rich Little, mimic of dozens of celebrities -- most of whom are dead. Just check his Web site, www.richlittle.com.

Who wants to hear Paul Lynde? Cary Grant anyone? Jack Benny?

Hip? Perhaps in 1976. While Little has enjoyed a career as an impressionist since the mid-1960s, these days he's not playing comedy's A-list rooms. Next week, the 69-year-old Little is scheduled to play the Soboba Casino in the Riverside County city of San Jacinto. Three days later, he'll jet -- presumably -- to the North Iowa Community Auditorium for a gig in Mason City.


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[Deep13]

1. WH dinner, huh? Guess Colbert wasn't available.

I hear he has a great routine about supporting the president.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

2. Don't forget Granite Falls, MN in May

Population 3,070! It's a long, long slide to the bottom, ain't it?

[tridim]

10. I don't know if I'd call it a career slide..

Maybe he's just retired and is doing small shows to stay busy?

That said, I have no clue why the WH correspondents would pick him since he's not the least bit famous any more. I wonder who makes that decision?

[havocmom]

3. Rich Little is still ALIVE?

Who knew?

Boy, they had to dig to find somebody safe didn't they? :rofl:

[drm604]

4. I remember him.

IIRC he did a Nixon imitation and was very hot during the Nixon years. As I recall, when Nixon resigned he pretty much disappeared. I never knew what happened to him.

[WI_DEM]

14. he kept busy on the "Dean Martin Roasts" into the early 80's

[drm604]

21. I don't think I watched too many of those.

I remember him from various variety shows in the 70's. According to imdb he had a TV show in 76. http://imdb.com/title/tt0074046/

According to this website: http://www.tv.com/the-rich-little-show/show/2931/summary.html
it was a variety show and it only lasted about 5 months.

[obreaslan]

26. As a back-up, they've booked Wayland Flowers an Madame...

[Parche]

5. Dinner

What?? Toby Keith and Pat Boone were not available??????????????

[Strawman]

6. How appropo. This admin does a damn good Nixon impersonation too

[grytpype]

heh heh

[Orsino]

22. LOL! n/t

[rhiannon55]

7. Rich Little??? This should be hilarious...

Not!

What a pathetic choice. But a safe choice, I guess. They had to find one comedian who doesn't hate Bush. Wait...What about Dennis Miller? He's not funny, either, but he sucks up real well...

[WI_DEM]

8. and his website has a salute to Ronald Reagan!! and it isn't a joke.

I liked Rich as a kid, but he is kind of passe.

[Ian David]

9. You forgot Poland.

Rich Little will be performing at the annual Sausage Festival in Dachau, Poland next week.


Not really.

I made that up.

Still, he'd really be a hoot on a season of "The Surreal Life."

I wish they'd hired David Cross to host the dinner.

[Kerrytravelers]

11. Larry the Cable Guy and the Blue Collar what-ever-they-call-themselves would have loved this gig.

They personify the mentality that follow *.

[npincus]

12. Aw, poor guy.

So many celebrities from my youth are six feet under today, so glad to hear one is still alive! And practicing his craft.

In the case of performing for the Chimp, that may be witchcraft.

[bullwinkle428]

13. If he's flying into Mason City, IA, it would have to be a crop-duster!

It's a good 2-hour drive to any airport capable of handling jets! :rofl:

[lpbk2713]

15. Dennis Miller must have been unavailable for this gig.

Must have been booked up solid with car wash openings or something of that sort.

[Sugar Smack]

17. Bwaaahhh! GOOD ONE.

:rofl:

[WI_DEM]

18. He's the only guy working less than Rich Little.

[Cleita]

16. Seems appropriate.

A fossil of a bygone era entertaining soon to be fossils of this era.

[demnan]

19. Maybe it will backfire

Who knows, maybe Rich Little is an ANGRY old man.

[Strawman]

20. Maybe Rich Hall can come along too and provide some sniglets!

I hear he's the other new hot comic these days.

Holy fuck I'm a dinosaur for knowing that.

[Orsino]

23. I saw Scalia's belly laugh at Colbert.

The Justice may be a pig, but he knew real comedy when he saw it, at least. I doubt that Rich Little will do more than give the audience chuckles.

[WI_DEM]

24. if Little was smart he would take advantage of this and turn in a

cutting edge performance. Perhaps scewering Bush and Cheney. It would get him a lot more media attention (like Colbert). But my guess is that he won't--especially since I see he has a Ronald Reagan appreciation on his website.

[BuyingThyme]

25. Rich Little does just fine.

Some people only dream of playing the houses Rich plays.