We told you last month that Stephen Colbert would be the guest of “honor” at this year’s Roast for Spina Bifida, and now the list of roasters is out. From the Examiner:
Emanuel, Perino to head Colbert’s roasters
By Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin
POSTED November 5, 2008 | 12:05 AMThe Word
The Spina Bifida Association of America has finally announced who will be roasting Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert at organization’s annual celebrity roast on Nov. 14.
Drumroll please … the roster of roasters includes House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel, White House press secretary Dana Perino, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Sen. Orrin Hatch.
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Oh.my.god. Eleanor Holmes Norton is going to roast him? Man, this week just can’t get any more awesome.
Oh, to live in DC and actually have money…
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My eyes went “boing!” when I read that too! This will, undoubtedly, be magic!
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I hope she calls him a white, pasty man again:)
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When did she do that? It’s been a while since I’ve watched her segments, but I just remember her calling him a “plain, vanilla man” (to which Stephen retorted that he thought he was “French vanilla”).
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Oops! You’re right MsI. That’s what I meant. Plain vanilla sounds slightly better than white and pasty.
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^agree with the post above.
also, that should be future white house chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, huh? I wonder if he’ll now be too busy to for this roasting business.
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Believe me, I wish I could make it to this. Like you would NOT believe. If it were $150, maybe even $200, I might be able to swing it. And “If wishes and buts …”
Sigh. If only.
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This is awesome; I just read that Rahm Emanuel “doesn’t recommend colleagues to appear on the Colbert Report, though he himself has appeared numerous times on The Daily Show.”
I’m wondering what he’s going to say and do.
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Should be good. I don’t have the money to go there, but I can’t wait to see it.
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This is delicious, Stephen amid all the movers and shakers, oh to be a fly on the wall.
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I so want to see Eleanor Holmes Norton do this!! It should be hilarious.
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Rahm Emmanuel??? as in the Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama???
i love him. i wonder if he has the time to commit to this still
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I’m attending the roast. I’m definitely looking forward to Rahm (that is, if he has the time; I hope he does!) and Eleanor!
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:o
I think I speak for all of us when I say I hope you spill the details afterward. Have fun!
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No one can bring it like Eleanor Holmes Norton! Please let someone from CSPAN (or CSPAN2) be covering this…please, please, pretty please…
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Apparently, Rahm Emanuel can dish it, but he can’t take it… :)
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