Good point

Just reading the Reverend Tim McIntire webpage. He has this comment about Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner:

Friday, May 05, 2006
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The thing about Colbert's performance and whether or not it was funny or appropriate is that basically, from a comedian's perspective, it's just another shitty private gig. Really, it's something that every comic with any time in this business at all has seen dozens of times.

You get hired by a company to do their annual party. The person who hires you tells you they want you to write jokes about the owner. They tell you he can take a joke, and they give you tons of stuff that they practically beg you to use. He cheats at golf, they say. He wears a wig. He yells at his secretary. Definitely mention how fat he's gotten, they tell you. Don't worry, he'll love it, they promise you. Then the night comes, and you get there, and as soon as the very first fat joke bombs, you can feel them turn, and the people who hired you suddenly pretend they had nothing to do with it, and you suffer through the silence, and when it's over, and you're talking to the very same people who told you to talk about the guy's wooden leg, they look at you and say, "What happened? You weren't funny."

Agreed!