Last evening May 1st, a Saturday night, Jay Leno performed live at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. A gig  where he had a chance to look good before the airing of this Sunday evening's "60 Minutes" show, with a segment featuring Conan O'Brien, saying not so nice things about him. This morning, there's a clip on the net of excerpts of Leno's  monologue/dinner speech. The jokes are the usual 'Tonight Show" material, pokes at President Obama, at the Republicans, at RNC Chairman, Michael Steele,  and at the political climate in the capitol. The jokes start a little slow then toward the end there are a couple of zingers.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner, is an annual Washington event, attended by the President, and other leading Washington politicians, and by reporters of the media, whom have clout, whose guests include big names of Hollywood and New York, and other rizzy places. This morning's Washington Post on-line has a slide show of the red carpet arrivals of the biggy shots. The idea behind The White House Correspondents' Dinner is probably a good one. The press and the pols have an annual sit down, among guests, and the idea, I guess, is to remind each other, over a good dinner, and some jokes, and a little humor, that everyone is human --  though they spend their professional lives demonizing each other.