What happened at this year's White House Correspondents Dinner was, by and large, what happens at every White House Correspondents Dinner. A quick tour through the hilarious and infuriating proceedings:
1). Lots of partygoers adopt the adorable term "nerdprom" for the night -- which you should roll your eyes at and be appropriately skeptical of:
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2). People who most feel left out invariably throw a snit about the whole thing:
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(Greg Mitchell posted four photos of Palin from 2011’s “nerdprom.” Did she not get an invite this year? )
3). Conan O’Brien, a funnyman, was funny! Best joke:
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(Watch entire video of O'Brien here)
4). Barack Obama: Even funnier -- maybe because a slight contempt for the proceedings seems to come through:
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(Watch entire video here)
5). Steven Spielberg: Funny, in a probably multimillion-dollar produced short:
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6). Lots of giddy journalists belly up to poor unsuspecting TV stars:
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7). A certain desperation sets in to say something meaningful about an utterly meaningless spectacle:
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8). Some inevitably stay up way past their bed times, and freak out a little:
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9). Imagined WHCD proves vastly more amusing than real one:
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10). Politicians use the event to flatter journalists, cruelly prey upon their low self-esteem. Journalists lap it up:
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Oh, and: Politico finds some new original way to drive everyone crazy, even more than they already do.
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