The annual White House correspondents' dinner rolled around Saturday night, and everyone was anxious about what President Bush would say -- especially since the evening was his swan song. (And since every news outlet's story seems to pretty much have the same few jokes, I'm assuming that those were the only funny bits of the evening.) Here, from The Independent:

"As the Democrat candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continued to slug it out on the campaign trail, Mr Bush teased them over their most recent gaffes and scandals. 'Hillary Clinton couldn't get in because of sniper fire and Senator Obama's at church,' he said, referring to Mrs Clinton's claim to have arrived in Bosnia under fire and Mr Obama's difficulties over the anti-American views of his pastor, the Rev Jeremiah Wright. As for the Republican candidate John McCain, a long-time rival, who was also not in attendance, Mr Bush said: 'He probably wanted to distance himself from me.'

...'Pamela Anderson and Mitt Romney in one room?' Mr Bush marvelled. 'Isn't that a sign of the apocalypse?'

...The jokes of Scottish-born Craig Ferguson, the host of CBS's The Late Late Show, were little more than a light tickling, but he admitted to being nervous since so many comics bomb at the event. 'That makes me just another foreigner taking jobs Americans don't want,' he said.

The presenter, who became a US citizen earlier this year, mocked George Bush's penchant for long breaks at his Texas ranch, and asked what he might do when he leaves the White House. 'You could look for a job with more vacation time,' he said.

And he joked that Vice-President Dick Cheney, was already preparing to move out of the White House. 'It takes longer than you think to pack up an entire dungeon.'"

In other correspondents' dinner news, Perez Hilton wore Diesel instead of a tux, taking me back to the last time I was in D.C. and wondered where all the people who wore color were hiding. Perez seemed to be impressed, though, by the free-flowing libations among the D.C. elite. (Goodness, why do you think they're so good at getting into scandals??)

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