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Sinking. this administration is soaring. if anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the hindenburg. >> i watch it at home and they cut away to the audience and -- huh? what? they doesn't get the joke. so, you're screwed from jump street. but it was his character, that's the character he does. what -- who did you buy? >> thank you very much. good night. >> i don't know if it's a good thing that comedians and politicians get together in that room, because i think it definitely makes you pull your punches a little bit. >> it was bush's last one that i did. i was sitting there and i was ...

Inspired empty promises for the future? >> i loved to have a story broken down for me in a different way. the news can get really dark the deeper you go. that's why i loved jon so much. that's why i loved "the daily show" so much. >> you're doing theater when you should be doing debate, which would be great. what you do is not honest. what you do is partisan hackry. >> you've got to be kidding me. >> you're on cnn. the show that leads into me is "puppets making crank phone calls." what is wrong with you? >> all the medians that came out of stewart's shop, the larry wi willmore, john oliver, sa...

>> sorry i had to cancel a few times. >> the president is president in a completely new media landscape where you have kids that don't watch television anymore, they watch stuff on their mobile devices. >> good to be with you. >> obamacare was vilified by half the country. we needed a water cooler moment to say, yes, we know the website didn't work, but it works now. the president realized that you have to communicate in the venues where people are, and with "between two ferns," you had a program that, you know, tens of million of people watched. >> what is it like to be the last black preside...

Different sense, and so figuring out what's going to appeal to everyone is definitely tricky. >> ladies and gentlemen, here with a special edition of the colbert report, stephen colbert. >> i think you show up at the press correspondents dinner, you better go for the throat, and you better risk being booed. and that's what i loved about what colbert did. >> i believe the government that governs best is the government that govers least and by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in iraq. >> stephen colbert at that white house correspondents dinner, i watched with deep jealousy....

Obama. >> historically, what we would call right wing politics tends to be more about protecting the status quo, and i think good comedy is about attacking the status quo. questioning it, challenging it, satirizing it. >> in just eight years, i have given you enough material for 20 years. >> the president does this speech every year at the white house correspondents dinner. historically speaking, this is the most, like, disgusting display of elites in a room together, right? it's journalists, members of congress, cabinet members and the president typically does this speech that makes them all ...