Sure it’s almost five years later, but Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert is still getting asked questions about his roast of President George W. Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Association Dinner, which bombed in the room. “I had a relationship with my audience,” he told his alma mater’s magazine, the Northwestern, in a recent interview. “But my audience was not the people in the room,” though some in the room were into it. “What you don’t know is that there were 3,000 people in there, and even the things that didn’t go well… a thousand people laughed,” he said. “What you don’t know is that the people on the dais in the front row were going like this,” Colbert explained to the Northwestern, holding his hands in front of his face and peeking through his fingers. “But it went pretty well,” Colbert concluded. The comedian clearly has not returned to host the dinner. In 2011, “Saturday Night Live’s” Seth Meyers will be the entertainment.
