Last night was the White House Correspondents Dinner, also known as “Nerd prom”/”#nerdprom” or “Washington’s Worst Night Of The Year.” Still, President Obama, as well as the White House Correspondents Association and emcee Conan O’Brien, had some fun. For instance, Obama’s entrance music was DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win” (featuring Ludacris, Rick Ross, T-Pain, and Snoop)—the President said, “Rush Limbaugh warned you about this—second term, baby.”

He added, “My advisors were a little worried about the new rap entrance music. They are a little more traditional. They suggested that I should start with some jokes at my own expense. Just take myself down a peg. I was like, ‘Guys, after four and a half years, how many pegs are there left?’”

After the dinner at the Hilton, the festivities began with a House of Cards spoof, featuring “Rep. Frank Underwood” played by Kevin Spacey, with cameos from WHCA president and Fox News reporter Ed Henry, Valerie Jarrett, Senator John McCain, NYC Mayor Bloomberg, James Carney, etc.:

Then it was time for the President:

Here are some of his jokes:

– “Did you know that Sheldon Adelson spent $100 million of his own money last year on negative ads? You’ve got to really dislike me to spend that kind of money. I mean, that’s Oprah money. … Sheldon would have been better off offering me $100 million to drop out of the race… I probably wouldn’t have taken it, but I would’ve thought about it … Michelle [Obama] would have taken it.”
– “I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be.”
– “I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate.”
– “I remember when BuzzFeed was something I did in college at 2 A.M.”
– “The History Channel is not here. I guess they were embarrassed about the whole Obama-is-a-devil thing… Of course, that never kept Fox News from showing up. They thought that comparison was not fair … to Satan.”
– “Maureen Dowd said I could solve all of my problems if I was just more like Michael Douglas in ‘The American President.’ I know Michael’s here tonight. Michael, what’s your secret? Could it be that you were an actor in an Aaron Sorkin liberal fantasy?”

There was also a video about Steven Spielberg’s next project:

When O’Brien took the stage, he noted, “The president is hard at work creating jobs. Since he was first elected, the number of popes has doubled. The number of ‘Tonight Show’ hosts has tripled. Congratulations.” He also complained about Huffington Post stories, “If HuffPost is here, who’s covering 7 mistakes you’re making with bacon?” (An actual story, he said.)

Here are some more O’Brien jokes:

– “Some in this room even accused the president of being distant and aloof. When I asked the president about that earlier, he said, ‘Oh,’ and walked away.”
– “As I look around the room and see all the media here tonight, I realize this is just one big high school cafeteria. That’s all it is. Think about it. Fox is the jocks, MSNBC is the nerds. … NPR is the table for kids with peanut allergies. Al Jazeera is the weird foreign exchange student nobody talks to.”
– “C-SPAN: It’s an entire channel shot with the backup camera on a Ford Explorer.”
– “They replaced the popular Larry King with a second footman from Downton Abbey.”
– “Your hair is so white, it could be a member of your cabinet.”
– “The [George W. Bush] library has millions of books, articles and documents. And if you go, you can be the first to read them.”
– “As a late night comedian, I was kind of pulling for the rich guy whose horse danced in the Olympics.”

Both Obama and O’Brien mentioned the recent tragedies in West, Texas and in Boston. Obama said, “If you ever wonder, for example, whether newspapers are a thing of the past, all you needed to do was to pick up or log on to papers like the Boston Globe. When their communities and the wider world needed them most, they were there, making sense of events that might at first blush seem beyond our comprehension,” while O’Brien said, “If you’re going to pick a city to mess with, don’t choose one where 9 out of ten people are related to a cop.”