EVEN STEVEN

The White House Press Correspondents' Annual Dinner is a singularly sickening affair. Journalists who toady up to the President (half of whom, if not more, hate him) are invited to a lavish dinner attended by the President and his coterie and hacks. All are treated to a comedy routine, and regardless of who the comic is, he/she knows the rules: tell canned jokes. Suck up to the President and press, in equal measure. Don't say anything offensive, only something that a lobotomized moron might, for half of a second, might consider, superficially, to be "offensive." Suck face with everyone.

What a sickening night.

Well, someone at C-SPAN had the bright idea to hire Stephen Colbert to host this year's dinner. The result was an affair that was definitely not sickening:

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