If you missed the 2013 White House Correspondents' Dinner, you weren't alone - Tom Brokaw abstained from the event as well this year.
Believe it or not, you both actually missed a pretty good show. Barack Obama was remarkably funny, delivering genuinely witty jokes that betrayed spot-on comic timing.
"Some folks still don't think I spend enough time with Congress. 'Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?' they ask," Obama said. "Really? Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?"
Conan O'Brien was also on hand to deliver a few zingers. Among Coco's funniest jokes of the evening was this jab at Chris Christie, who took it like a sport:
"I'd like to acknowledge that earlier this evening, there was some confusion with the seating chart. For a moment, someone accidentally sat Governor Chris Christie with the Republicans. That was awkward, and I apologize," O'Brien said.
For more of Conan's White House Correspondents' Dinner routine, check out ABC's roundup, which has his top five jokes of the evening.
Legendary newsman Tom Brokaw was notably absent this year, having previously derided the White House Correspondents' Dinner for the gaudy, star-studded gala it's become in recent years. As the Washington Post reports, it wasn't the attendance of Ozzy Osbourne or even Larry Flynt that put him over the edge:
"The breaking point for me was Lindsay Lohan," Brokaw told POLITICO during a recent interview in his office in the NBC News Rockefeller Plaza headquarters in New York. "She became a big star at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Give me a break."
