a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Stephen%20Colbert%20The%20White%20House%20Press%20Corps%20Dinner.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/Stephen%20Colbert%20The%20White%20House%20Press%20Corps%20Dinner.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //a”I’m not saying this about me, because I’m not political at all in my standup, but a lot of comedians have become the new folk singers. They’re the ones that are pointing the finger and saying what is really going on, more so than in music now. I’ll see these peace rallies and it’s still Joan Baez up there singing. Great for her, but sometimes I’m like ‘Where is this generation’s folk singers?’” – Zach Galifianakisbr /br /This weekend Stephen Colbert gave one of the gutsiest performances I have ever seen in my life, presenting at the White House Press Corps Dinner. Following a speech George W. Bush gave, in which he mildly poked fun at himself with the help of an impersonator, Colbert was introduced and immediately stepped into character, blasting counterintuitive compliments in Bush’s direction.br /br /a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61II”Stephen Colbert: White House Press Corps Dinner Part 1/a span style=”font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”(video)/spanbr /a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN0INDOkFuo”Stephen Colbert: White House Press Corps Dinner Part 2/a span style=”font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”(video)/spanbr /a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJvar7BKwvQ”Stephen Colbert: White House Press Corps Dinner Part 3/a span style=”font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”(video)/spanbr /br /Stephen Colbert: White House Press Corps Dinner Transcript amp; Other Info (a href=”http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/29/stephen_colbert_kick.html”link via BoingBoing/a)br /br /Editor and Publisher Article (a href=”http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002425363″link/a)br /br /ThankYouStevenColbert.org (a href=”http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/”link/a)