The botched health care site, Malaysian Airlines and midterm elections were all fair game Saturday at the 100th annual White House Correspondents Association dinner. <\/p>\n
Celebrities and politicians laughed and cheered President Obama and host Joel McHale as they poked fun at everything from the beleaguered launch of the government healthcare site to foreign leaders. <\/p>\n
SEE ALSO: Kathleen Sebelius and fierce Obamacare critic, Ted Cruz, sit together at gala <\/p>\n
That could have gone better, the president said of the health insurance site launch. In 2008 my slogan was yes we can. In 2013 it was control, alt, delete. <\/p>\n
Mr. McHale pointed out it was hard to quantify how terrible a launch the site really had because it serves as the basis for analogies. <\/p>\n
The website is now what they use to describe other bad things, Mr. McHale said. <\/p>\n
Even former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made a brief appearance, stepping on stage to assist the president in restarting a frozen video screen a common problem when the insurance site first launched. <\/p>\n
The dinner, where movie and television stars mingle with lawmakers and reporters, was held at the ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel. <\/p>\n
Prior to the speeches, a video spoof starring Vice President Joseph R. Biden and Julia Louis Dreyfus, who plays one on television, showed the two on a series of adventures, including sneaking ice cream from the White House kitchen and getting tattoos with Nancy Pelosi. <\/p>\n
After stepping to the podium, Mr Obama asked for the new set up, in which staff placed two ferns on either side of him a nod to his wildly successful appearance on the online video series Between Two Ferns, with comedian Zach Galifianakis. <\/p>\n
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