Rich Little on the WH Correspondent's Dinner: "They Know I'm a Safe Bet..." [View All]

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Robin Williams a "young comedian"?

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/070129ta_talk_goldberg

“Didn’t they know what they were getting?” he asked. “I think if you ask a political satirist like Dennis Miller or—the short little guy?”

Jon Stewart?

“No. Bill Maher, that’s his name. If you ask a political satirist like Dennis Miller or Bill Maher or Mark Russell to come, they’re going to do the political satire.”

Little, who had a variety show on television in the nineteen-seventies, appeared on Letterman not long ago but hasn’t had much other television work in recent years. “My agent tried to get me on Maher’s show, but I was told that Bill said, ‘That Rich Little is a pretty funny guy.’ He didn’t want to take the chance that I would be funnier.” Little said that he does not find Maher and his ilk terribly funny. When asked to name a young comedian he admired, he responded, “Robin Williams. He’s just off the wall.”