I thought his routine was off base. I'm not a republican or democrat. I am fed up with both parties. But I find it offensive when someone tries to humiliate our President with our President sitting right there next to him!! I don't care who are President is. I believe in free speech, but one should use restrain when the President is your GUEST. Please!

Yeah, he's got stones, but I'd bet they only see action bouncing off some dude's chin.

Re: #1: Now THAT is hilarious.

"Didn't they know who he was, what he did, before they called him up and said, 'hey, wanna come speak?'"

Um, apparently not really.

From the lede of the New York Time follow-up story on the evening (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/arts/03colb.html):

"Mark Smith, a reporter for The Associated Press who is president of the White House Correspondents' Association, acknowledges that he had not seen much of Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central before he booked him as the main entertainment for the association's annual black-tie dinner on Saturday night."