There have been a lot of people comparing US president Barack Obama’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner performance with Stephen Colbert’s in 2006.
What I find interesting is how people forget that Colbert’s tour de force was ignored by the mainstream media or, if mentioned at all, vilified. Here’s the Washington Post review: So Not Funny Or the New York Times which doesn’t even mention Colbert’s act at all. (Here is where they backpedal and say it was so funny that we had to wait four days.)