1||With this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner coming up Saturday, TPM takes a look at past dinners’ highlights.
Stephen Colbert entertains the crowd at the 2006 WHCA Dinner.||newscom/Roger L. Wollenberg- pool via cnp&&
2||Then-Sen. Joe Biden and MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews at the 2004 dinner.||newscom/Dan Herrick KPA/zuma press&&
3||Bill Maher at the dinner in 2005.||newscom/CD1/wenn photos&&
4||Matt Drudge at the 2004 dinner, which was held at the Washington Hilton Hotel.||newscom/Dan Herrick KPA/zuma press&&
5||President Bill Clinton speaks at the 1998 dinner.||newscom/Michael Smith/upi photo service&&
6||Donald Trump and Melania Knauss — whom Trump later married — at the 2001 dinner.||newscom/Michael Springer/zuma press&&
7||Tucker Carlson, co-founder and editor in chief of The Daily Caller at the 2005 dinner.||newscom/Laura Farr/admedia/&&
8||Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the 2004 dinner.||newscom/Dan Herrick KPA/zuma press&&
9||Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the Bloomberg News party following the 2006 dinner.||newscom/Ron Sachs/ron sachs-cnp&&
10||Fox News host Greta Van Susteren at the 2004 dinner.||newscom/Nancy Kaszerman/zuma press&&
11||CNN anchor Anderson Cooper at the 2004 dinner.||newscom/Nancy Kaszerman/zuma press&&
12||Las Vegas crooner Wayne Newton at the 2004 dinner.||newscom/Nancy Kaszerman/zuma press&&
13||Paula Jones, who famously sued President Clinton for sexual harassment, and her husband, Steven, before the 1999 dinner.||newscom/Shana Raab/upi photo service&&
14||Jerry Springer at the 2003 dinner.||newscom/newscom/Oliver Douliery krt&&
15||Sharon and Ozzy Osborne after the 2002 dinner.||newscom/Ron Sachs/ron sachs-cnp&&
16||Ralph Nader at the 2004 dinner.||newscom/Ron Sachs/ron sachs-cnp&&
17||Kathleen York and Richard Schiff, stars of the Emmy-winning series The West Wing, at the 2003 dinner.||newscom/Oliver Douliery krt&&
18||Then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his wife, Joyce, at the 2004 dinner.||newscom/Ron Sachs/ron sachs-cnp&&
19||CNN’s Wolf Blitzer at the 2004 dinner.||newscom/Ron Sachs/ron sachs-cnp&&