Not that I would watch it, but would any channel (even C-Span4) rerun this? I imagine there are joint Congressional bathroom breaks that’d be more likely to get air time than this.
Saw it once live, then they threatened to re-broadcast a couple hours later, and again some time today.
The former Ding Ho Restaurant in Cambridge, MA nurtured the careers of an entire generation of Boston comics.
I saw parts of it on C-span during the night. Oh, it was bad! Not only were the jokes and impressions horrendous old chestnuts, but he had to sing a stupid jingle about “making fun of Washington” between each one…as if they each needed further emphasis! :rolleyes:
You can get the video on C-Span’s website. At least, I think you can. I can’t get my computer to open the files.
Their links require RealPlayer. Ick.
Ah, it’s not too bad if you’re using Real Alternative. I forgot I hadn’t installed that after the last time I installed in the OS.
My computer won’t open it either…in fact it threatened to erase itself if it was forced to play it…
Proof positive, as if any more were needed at this point:
There is no situation so intrinsically awful that George W. Bush cannot make it even worse.
One day, even the most fanatic apologists for his innumerable other global cockups will awaken to the grim truth: The man managed to make a Rich Little performance even more depressing, which by all rights should be thermodynamically impossible. Such a feat surpasses the limits of mere human incompetence. He should be probed by scientists.
I don’t really blame Rich Little - he is what he is. He’s been doing the same type of act for thirty years and he’s been successful. So I figure while I might not enjoy him as a performer apparently other people do.
That said, Little wouldn’t have been in my top hundred choices as a headliner for the Washington Correspondents Dinner. I guess he was chosen as being the semi-famous living quasi-comedian who was judged least likely to go off message and offend anyone.
Ensuckens?
How long ago did you see him?
I saw him at a local club here six years ago or so and he was decently funny, but at the end actually snapped on someone for trying to get him to say dy-no-MITE!
Started yelling about how rude she was to bring that up as he had grown up and was beyond that and she should respect that.
Really sucked the fun out of the room.
The stuff I read about this gig before it was on said that they didn’t want the comic to actually be funny by saying nasty things about Fearless Leader. So they succeeded. Not being funny because of VT was a bonus.
I actually saw Little in Vegas about 20 years ago. He sucked then too. Part of his act had him imitating Jimmy Stewart, then playing a clip of Jimmy Stewart. Bad move, but it did give us a few minutes respite from listening to him.
It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
On the bright side, we don’t have to listen to anyone piss and moan about how the headliner was “rude”.
I think Bush needs another dose of Colbert, though.
I saw some of it, and could have sworn one of the impressions he was doing was Richard Nixon? Whoever he was impersonating, it was like five minutes and it wasn’t like the jokes weren’t funny, there weren’t any jokes, period. Very painful, and no one in the audience even tittering or sympathy laughing. And JJ’s stand up is even worse. But at elast Rich looked good- he’s gotta be at least 70. Who opened for hin- Fred Travelena (sp?)?.
I believe it was in 1999, maybe '98.
I think the main problem with him not being funny was that he was sweating desperation and everyone smelled it. He would tell a joke that was neither new nor clever and would immediately laugh his ass off afterward.
Plus, after his “dy-no-MITE” intro, the crowd was just sad for him.
So the VA Tech shootings left Bush unable to bring teh funny, but all the soldiers dying in Iraq didn’t stop his “Gawrsh, where are those pesky WMDs?” act a few years ago. Gotcha.
Alien scientists, preferably. Those dudes know how to probe! 
Made it up, currently trying to sell it on E-bay. Surprisingly, its going rather slowly, disappointing, mostly get e-mails asking if I have some connection to the Special Olympics.
Read Frank Rich from yesterday. He goes off on this.
Ouch!
I saw Jimmy Walker a few years back. He did NOT say “dy-no-mite.” I heard a guy on the radio who ran a comedy club saying that JJ’s agent told him that the regular show would be $2500 but the “dynamite show” would be an extra $750 (numbers are approximate, but in the ballpark).
He wasn’t using it in his act. Maybe as his career has descended, he’s had to go to it.