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## Video: Obama and Conan O'Brien Trade Jokes At White House Correspondents' Dinner

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_Published 2013-04-28. The normally serious President Obama gets to relax and make jokes with funny man Conan O'Brien for the media during the White House Correspondents' Dinner._


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] Thank you. Thank you, everybody. How do you like my new entrance music? [ NOISE ] Rush Limbaugh warned you about this. Second term, baby. [ SOUND ] I understand, second term need a burst of new energy, try some new things. And, and, my team and I talked about it. We were willing to try anything. So we borrowed one of Michelle's tricks. [ COUGH ]. [ LAUGH ]. [ SOUND ]. When you think about it. The president and I are a lot alike. We both went to Harvard, we both have two children. And we both told Joe Biden that we didn't have extra tickets for tonight's event. As you know, [ NOISE ] the president is hard at work creating jobs.

Since he was first elected the number of popes has doubled. [ LAUGH ]. And the number of the Tonight Show hosts has tripled! Congratulations! For example this whole controversy about Jay- Z going to Cuba It's unbelievable. I have got 99 problems and now Jay- Z is one. [ LAUGH ] The history channel is not here. I guess they were embarrassed about the whole Obama is a devil thing. [ LAUGH ] Of course that never kept Fox News from showing up. [ LAUGH ] They actually thought the comparison was not fair to Satan. [ LAUGH ] If any of you are live tweeting this event, please use the hash tag, incapable of living in the moment.

[ LAUGH ] Yeah. Yes. Yes. I am a little nervous though about Steven's next project. I saw a behind the scenes look on HBO. Well lets just check it out, role the tape. [ COUGH ] Well I was thrilled that Lincoln was a success and as I was thinking about what to do next, in the middle of the night I woke up and it hit me. [ MUSIC ] Obama. I mean the guy's already a lame duck, so why wait?

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