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Jay Leno hosts White House Correspondents' Dinner, videos

By April MacIntyre May 2, 2010, 18:09 GMT

US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) and US comedian Jay Leno attend the White House Correspondents\' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, USA on 01 May 2010. EPA/OLIVIER DOULIERY

Last night's White House Correspondents’ Dinner featured a who's who of TV chat show hosts, celebrities and reporters who watched host Jay Leno warm up the crowd before President Obama himself took to the podium.

"Washington is a very scary place between Republicans going to bondage clubs, the SEC looking at porn — I can't wait to get back to Hollywood, someplace wholesome where people have values," Leno quipped.

Nearly 3,000 journalists, celebrities and political figures attended the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner last night. The guest list was organized by Politico.com by organization:

ABC

Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal; Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell of “Modern Family”; George Stephanopoulos and his wife, Ali Wentworth, who invited J.J. Abrams and his wife, Katie McGrath; Sen. Scott Brown and his wife; CIA Director Leon Panetta; White House social secretary Julianna Smoot; D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee; Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson; and OMB director Peter Orszag.

Jay Leno's opening remarks:

American Urban Radio Network

Wendy Williams

Bloomberg News

Rosario Dawson, Jenny Sanford and James Brooks.

CBS

Julianna Margulies; Morgan Freeman; Ayla Brown; Betty White; Chelsea Handler; Rahm Emanuel; HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Attorney General Eric Holder; Education Secretary Steven Chu; Rep. Eric Cantor; British Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald; D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and his wife, Michelle; and deputy White House social secretary Ebs Burnough.

CNN

Ashley Judd; Dennis Quaid; Quinton Aaron, star of "The Blind Side”; The Tuohy family, whose story is the basis for the film "The Blind Side”; James Badge Dale and Jon Seda of the HBO miniseries "The Pacific"; Larry King, who is bringing "Family Guy" mastermind Seth MacFarlane and "Survivor's: Jeff Probst; Joy Behar; and Sanjay Gupta.

Creative Coalition

Jessica Alba and her husband, Cash Warren; Ashley Greene; Omar Epps; Steven Weber; Cheryl Hines; Adrian Grenier; Spike Lee; Morley Safer; Tom Fontana; and CCH Pounder.

Essence

Queen Latifah

Fortune

Michael Douglas and commentator/banking analyst Meredith Whitney.

Fox Business Network

Charlie Gasparino; Rich Edson; Joseph Mazello and General George Casey of HBO miniseries “The Pacific”; Democratic political analyst Kirsten Powers; Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Carly Fiorina, candidate for U.S. Senate.

Fox News Channel

Vanessa Williams; Chace Crawford of “Gossip Girl”; Matthew Morrison of “Glee”; Enrique Iglesias; Ali Larter; Marlon Wayans; Patricia Arquette; Gen. Eric Shinseki and his wife, Patty Shinseki; American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten; and Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier, Greta Van Susteren, Major Garrett, Mike Emanuel, Jim Angle, Steve Centanni and Catherine Herridge.

Huffington Post

John Cusack; Scarlett Johansson; Jeremy Piven; Ari Emanuel; Desiree Rogers; Bill Maher; FDIC chairwoman Sheila Bair; former California state Treasurer Phil Angelides; Twitter co-founder Evan Williams; and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

NBC

Jon Bon Jovi; Anna Kendrick; Bradley Cooper; Alec Baldwin; Ewan McGregor; Jimmy Fallon; Mariska Hargitay; Angela Kinsey; Elisabeth Moss; Fred Armisen; Lindsey Vonn; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Adm. Mike Mullen; White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice; Sen. Susan Collins; Madeleine Albright; Howard Dean; Carol Browner, director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy; Rocco Landesman, National Endowment for the Arts chairman; Cindy Chang, National Security Council; former Gov. Jon Corzine; Melissa Winter, deputy chief of staff to first lady Michelle Obama; Brian Williams; “Today’s" Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Ann Curry and Al Roker; David Gregory; and “Morning Joe's" Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist.

Newsweek

Chevy Chase, Jeremy Renner, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Colin Powell.

New Yorker

Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, and Tracy Morgan.

People

Justin Bieber, Gabourey Sidibe, Tom Colicchio, Kristin Davis and Jessica Simpson.

POLITICO

Mary J. Blige, Tory Burch, The Jonas Brothers, Tim Daly and Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz.

Talking Points Memo

Darren Star; Zbigniew Brzezinski; Brent Scowcroft; and National Security Council chief of staff Denis McDonough and his wife, Kari.

Time

Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw; Michelle Pfeiffer and her husband, David E. Kelley; Education Secretary Arne Duncan; Jeremy Bash, chief of staff to Leon Panetta; and Gayle King.

Wall Street Journal

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Schapiro; RNC Chairman Michael Steele; Rep. Steny Hoyer; Rev. Al Sharpton; White House counsel Bob Bauer; Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz; former White House communications director Anita Dunn; and U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin.

Washington Times

Dan Snyder; Donovan McNabb; Mike Shanahan; Redskins General Manager Bruce Allen; Texas Gov. Rick Perry; Sen. Ben Nelson; Rep. Dennis Kucinich and his wife, Elizabeth; Rep. Thad McCotter; D.C. Councilman Jack Evans; FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell; and Andrew Breitbart.