He even has an appropriate Frenchie name and correctly pronounces it “Col-bare.”
From today’s nola.com:
EXTRA CHOCOLATE: … Nagin’s speech became a punchline more than 1,000 miles away at another high-profile setting: the annual White House correspondents dinner, where Nagin dined as a guest of the Los Angeles Times.
The invitation — and Nagin’s role as fodder for comics — was a sign of what a national figure he’s become, if not always for the reasons he’d prefer. Among the other luminaries present: rapper-actor Ludacris and tennis player Anna Kournikova.
While the main target of the roast was President Bush and his administration, Steven Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” and the lead roaster at the event, didn’t spare Nagin.
He welcomed the mayor thus: “Mayor Nagin is here from New Orleans, the chocolate city,” Colbert cracked. “Yeah, give it up. Mayor Nagin, I would like to welcome you to Washington, D.C., the chocolate city with a marshmallow center. And a graham cracker crust of corruption. It’s a Mallomar, is what I’m describing.”
“The New Orleans version of what Colbert is talking about would be a moonpie, I suppose,” adds my dear friend, Dr. Esteban.
And of course, DC is the original Chocolate City, the one George Clinton was talking about in that Parliament song, which is presumably where Nagin got the phrase. Are ya with me CC?
I’m sure the irony was not lost on Colbert.
AND he’s the senior half of The Ambiguously Gay Duo. What’s not to love?!?
Ah, Ace! I’d forgotten about that.
What’s everybody looking at?
Nothing!