Sideshow: At annual dinner, Bush stands up for comedy

Look who's poking fun at politicians.

President Bush

jabbed at his potential successors Saturday night, expressing surprise that none of them was in the audience at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner in Washington.

"Sen. McCain's not here," Bush said of GOP nominee-in-waiting

John McCain

. "He probably wanted to distance himself from me a little bit. You know, he's not alone.

Jenna's

moving out too."

Bush then took aim at Democratic candidates

Hillary Rodham Clinton

and

Barack Obama

: "Hillary Clinton couldn't get in because of sniper fire, and Sen. Obama's at church."

Craig Ferguson

, the host of CBS's

Late Late Show

, asked Bush what he was going to do after leaving office, then suggested, "You could look for a job with more vacation time."

Vice President Cheney

"is already moving out of his residence," Ferguson said. "It takes longer than you think to pack up an entire dungeon."

Carmen Electra

showed off her fiance and black diamond engagement ring, while the Hilton sisters frolicked with their beaus at an exclusive Coachella after-party outside Palm Springs, Calif.

Paris Hilton

and

Benji Madden

arrived just before midnight Saturday, greeting DJ

Steve Aoki

with hugs at an airport hangar transformed into a makeshift nightclub about eight miles from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Saturday.

While

Nicky Hilton

and

David Katzenberg

held court in a corner booth at the invite-only T-Mobile Tone Def After Party, Electra and

Rob Peterson

wandered with their hands firmly clasped together. Electra announced her engagement to the musician on Thursday.

Baby Mama

,

Tina Fey

's and

Amy Poehler

's comedy about surrogate motherhood, delivered the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $18.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates.

The Universal Pictures laugher starring the onetime

Saturday Night Live

duo, toddled past Warner Bros.'

Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

, the goofy stoner flick that opened at No. 2 with $14.6 million.

With a third comedy, Universal's

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

, holding its own at No. 4 with $11 million, audiences looked to be flocking to theaters to get giddy.

Critics had questioned Universal's decision to release

Baby Mama

so closely on the heels of

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

, thinking it would cannibalize the comedy-seeking public.

Lionsgate's kung fu movie

The Forbidden Kingdom

, starring

Jackie Chan

and

Jet Li

, fell two notches to No. 3 with $11.2 million.

Two ABC series were in repeats - as winners - at the annual awards honoring good work in media presentations of gays and lesbians.

Brothers & Sisters

and

Ugly Betty

received awards for outstanding drama and comedy series during the 19th-annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Both shows, which feature openly gay or transsexual regular characters, received the same awards last year.

On

Brothers & Sisters

,

Matthew Rhys

plays Kevin, a lawyer sibling whose dating life is frequently depicted on the drama.

Ugly Betty

features Marc St. James, the flamboyantly gay assistant played by

Michael Urie

, and Alexis Meade, the transsexual editor played by

Rebecca Romijn

. But you won't be seeing as much of Romijn on the show next season because she's being reduced from a regular cast member to a recurring character, she told the New York Post last week.

Other GLAAD winners included Bravo's

Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List

,

Janet Jackson

and

Rufus Wainwright

.