Stephen Colbert was the featured entertainer for the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in April 2006. Standing a few yards from President George W. Bush—in front of an audience that The Associated Press called a "Who's Who of power and celebrity"—Colbert delivered a controversial, searing routine targeting the president and the news media. In his politically conservative character from The Colbert Report, Colbert satirized the Bush administration and the White House press corps.