Stephen Colbert said he would be open to headlining the White House Correspondents' Association dinner this year.

The "Late Show" host told Variety on Saturday during a fundraiser benefiting the upcoming Montclair Film Festival he would "love" to headline the event again.

Colbert was featured at the dinner in 2006, where he gave a speech roasting then-President George W. Bush.

“Everyone who wasn’t in that room loved [the speech],” Colbert told Variety.

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“It would be an honor” to headline this year, he added.

“I’d love to do it [again]. I mean, when else are you going to stand next to the president and make jokes? But no one will ever ask again."

The annual charity event features a headliner firing off zingers about politicians and journalists in attendance. This year's dinner will be the first during Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Military leaders asked about using heat ray on protesters outside White House: report Powell warns failure to reach COVID-19 deal could 'scar and damage' economy MORE's presidency.

Colbert remarked to Variety about the "extraordinary" speed at which news changes surrounding the first few weeks of Trump's presidency.

The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, which host two of the marquee events of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner week, have said they will not be participating in this year's events.

Vanity Fair will not be co-sponsoring the exclusive after-party it traditionally hosts along with Bloomberg, The New York Times reported last week.

When asked previously if Trump planned on attending the dinner, White House press secretary Sean Spicer replied, "I don't know. We're six days in."