Rich Little, impersonating former President and peanut farmer Jimmy Carter at this weekend's sanitized-for-your-protection White House Correspondents' Association dinner: 'I had the biggest nuts in the country.'
By all reports, Little, enlisted as an offend-nobody follow-up to Colbert, failed deeply at being funny. The good news: George W. Bush didn't even try. While the president has, in the past, thought the war in Iraq to be the source of high hilarity for a dinner like this one, he said that last week's tragedy at Virginia Tech left him thinking that humor wasn't appropriate this time around.
Little apparently agreed.
Little's routine, a time capsule of social irrelevance from the 1970s, showed considerable freezer burn. So did too many of the honchos in attendance.
Lame is about the kindest term one could apply to his, uh, performance.
Less kind: it set a bar even Alberto Gonzales might be able to meet. If he could recall where it was. Or one could, perhaps, go the other way, with Little replacing Gonzales--at least Little can remember, and poses no threat of disruptive original thought.
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