Craig Ferguson Hosts White House Correspondents Dinner (Photos and Video)

The guest list for the dinner included plenty of VIPs from outside the Beltway: Actors Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, John Cusack, Pamela Anderson and Claire Danes, singers Ashlee Simpson and the Jonas Brothers and author Salman Rushdie were among the invitees. Washington's power elite was still well represented, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff in attendance.







Washington D.C. and Hollywood collided last night for the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner wherenoted, "interesting crowd," "Just think -andin the same room. Isn't that a sign of the apocalypse?", host of CBS "Late Late Show," who became a U.S. citizen in February, hosted the event We atwere unable to attend due to some mix up, it seems, with the post office. Apparently our invitations got lost in the mail.View video of Craig Ferguson at the White House Correspondents dinner below.

View highlights of the evening at Post Chronicle.

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