And first comedian, too

Scripps Howard: Pity Cedric the Entertainer. The professional comedian had to follow Laura Bush at the White House correspondents' dinner in Washington.
Mrs. Bush "interrupted" her husband as he launched into a joke that he is notoriously unable to make work and launched into a star turn that had the audience wondering: Where has this first lady been the past four years?
Laura Bush, it turns out, can be very funny and a trifle ribald. Her speech was professionally written, but she had to sign off on all the material and the delivery and the timing were all hers.
She needled her husband about how much his ranching skills had improved -- Andover and Yale not having "a real strong ranching program" -- since he tried to milk a male horse.
'Desperate housewife'
As for life at the White House: "I am married to the president of the United States, and here's our typical evening: Nine o'clock, Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep, and I'm watching "Desperate Housewives" -- with Lynne Cheney. Ladies and gentlemen, I AM a desperate housewife."
She claimed to have slipped out to a male strip club, where the female patrons stuff cash into the dancers' briefs, with the vice president's wife, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and longtime adviser Karen Hughes. "I won't tell you what happened," she said, "but Lynne's Secret Service codename is now 'Dollar Bill.'"