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The Colbert Rapport

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Late-night comedian Stephen Colbert returns to Washington for the 20th Annual Roast for Spina Bifida and this time the laughs are on him.

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Bob is a country music singer?

Yup.

"Honky Tonk Confidential" is the name of his album, Schieffer says, as well as his band.

His favorite song?

"TV Anchorman," but of course.

And there's CNN's Wolf Blitzer, amazingly leaving the Situation Room for what seems like the first time in months.

And Jim Lehrer, the PBS anchorman is here, too. It is a heavily anchored room. The anchors are guests.

The working stiff journos in the room are more like threats. They have been warned: Stay away from Colbert.

"Stephen does not want the media to approach him," a public-relations woman says.

"Stephen asks that the media not approach him," the man at the check-in table warns.

A few steps away from all of the anchors, Bush administration spokeswoman Dana Perino, looking much more adorable and relaxed without a snarling pack of White House reporters in her face, is checking her notes, typed and inserted into a blue binder.

Perino, who says she has never roasted anyone, needed to do some homework. She doesn't watch Colbert's show.

"I can't," she says. "I'm in bed by 9 p.m."

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