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Take My Husband. Please!

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Dramatic pause. "George says he's always delighted to come to these press dinners. Baloney! He's usually in bed by now."

The crowd cracks up.

"The other day I say to George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you've got to stay up later." The crowd roars.

"At 9 p.m. Mr. Excitement here is asleep and I'm watching 'Desperate Housewives.' Ladies and gentlemen, I'm a desperate housewife!"

And: "I'm introverted. He's extroverted . . . I can pronounce 'nuclear.' " (Much laughter.)

The first lady on her in-laws: "First prize is a three-day vacation with the Bush family. Second prize is 10 days."

Mary Tyler Moore may have knocked 'em out, but Laura Bush? She slayed.

At the Bloomberg News party afterward at a private mansion on Wyoming Avenue, there were ice cube garlands dripping from the ceiling and celebrities making a splash on the floor. Spotted amid the peach martinis and key lime cocktails were Al Franken, Al Sharpton, Goldie Hawn, Joe Pantoliano and Harvard President Larry Summers, who was asked to wait in line with the guest list's mere mortals when he attempted to enter.

A clear case of being eclipsed by Washington's lone star, even if she was nowhere to be seen.

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