So this year the organizers of the White House Correspondent’s dinner decided to invite veteran impressionist/comedian Rich Little to entertain the bigwig journalists and politicos such as President George Bush and first lady Laura Bush. The general consensus is that Little was invited as a noncontroversial choice.
Darrell Hammond gives us a Saturday Night Live take on what Little’s speech will say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inJRxVzElos
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.