Party of the Damned

And what did British actor Rupert Everett thinks about the dinner?

"'Hideous,' he said flatly. 'One of the most hideous events I've ever been to.'"

Toby Harnden writes in the Telegraph that "Anderson joked afterwards that she had 'thought this was the 'White Trash Correspondents' Dinner.'"

Frank James blogs for Tribune about more hijinks, including when "[a] college student the height of an NBA forward took climbed the stage to be recognized for winning a correspondents' association scholarship and to get a handshake from and photo with the president.

"Bush stepped up onto a chair to pose with the kid, to make himself taller than the kid, get it? It was a goofball thing to do but there he was, the president of the U.S. being a goofball.

"This got a lot of laughs and applause. More proof that Bush may be one of the best comedians to ever become president."

Here's more coverage from Jose Antonio Vargas of The Washington Post; Mark Silva of the Chicago Tribune; Brian DeBose of the Washington Times; and Tim Harper of the Toronto Star.

Here are lots of photos from Julie Mason of the Houston Chronicle and Patrick Gavin of FishbowlDC. Here are celebrity interviews with washingtonpost.com Celebritology blogger Liz Kelly.

What I'm still waiting for: Blog posts from the journalists at the head table. Ken Herman blogs about almost anything White House-related for Cox News Service, and has posted some limited video footage-- but so far hasn't published a word about what it was like sitting between Dick and Lynne Cheney all night. Also no posts from frequent ABC News blogger Ann Compton, who as president of the association sat next to Bush.

(She told me that she found Bush in good spirits -- irritated only by the rudeness of the crowd when it wouldn't quiet down during the scholarship presentations.)

Here's celebrity-blogger/guest Perez Hilton's post on the evening.

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