Mediocrity rewarded

Jay Leno will host the next White House correspondent's dinner. You know what you're going to get with Leno: a safe, bland speech with a few chuckles here and there. Ugh. I guess they didn't want to risk another Colbert situation:

Hilarious, but Colbert's 2006 speech pulled no punches. It made some people at the dinner a little uncomfortable. So the next year they brought in a guy named Rich Little who specializes in Richard Nixon and Johnny Carson impressions. Not exactly the cutting edge of comedy. 2008 and 2009 were a bit better with Craig Ferguson and Wanda Sykes. But now it's back to bland with Leno. You know what the weird thing is? Leno used to be funny too. Don't believe me? Check out this grainy video from 1992.

Where did it all go wrong?