'Desperate housewife' upstages President Bush
First Lady Laura Bush grabbed the stage from President George W Bush at the White House correspondents' annual dinner on Saturday and confessed to all his early bedtimes had turned her into a "desperate housewife".
Laura Bush, who is often seen smiling sweetly at her husband's side, stood up just in time to rescue the audience of political heavyweights and Hollywood celebrities from Mr Bush's retelling of a joke about steel rail "cattle guards" that bombed before a Montana town meeting in March.
"Not that old joke - not again," Mrs Bush said, as her husband willingly relinquished the stage.
"I've been attending these dinners for years and just quietly sitting there.
"Well, I've got a few things I want to say for a change."
One of the First Lady's main targets was the President's bed time.
"I said to him the other day, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later'," Mrs Bush said.
"Nine o'clock and Mr Excitement here is in bed, and I am watching Desperate Housewives - with Lynne Cheney. Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife."
Mrs Bush also joked about the President's mother Barbara Bush.
"People think she's a sweet grandmotherly aunt Bea type. She's actually more like (fictional Mafia capo) Don Corleone."
She says that her husband actually knew little about ranching when they bought their property in Crawford, Texas.
"I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year, when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse," she said.
Mrs Bush also ribbed her husband for his notoriously rowdy youth, but said they were meant to be together.
"I was a librarian that spent 12 hours a day in the library. Yet somehow I met George."
Mrs Bush's string of one-liners generated hearty laughs from the audience, which included celebrity names such as Richard Gere, Mary Tyler Moore, Venus and Serena Williams, Goldie Hawn and Elle MacPherson, as well as journalists and politicians.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA go laura!
First Lady Laura Bush grabbed the stage from President George W Bush at the White House correspondents' annual dinner on Saturday and confessed to all his early bedtimes had turned her into a "desperate housewife".
Laura Bush, who is often seen smiling sweetly at her husband's side, stood up just in time to rescue the audience of political heavyweights and Hollywood celebrities from Mr Bush's retelling of a joke about steel rail "cattle guards" that bombed before a Montana town meeting in March.
"Not that old joke - not again," Mrs Bush said, as her husband willingly relinquished the stage.
"I've been attending these dinners for years and just quietly sitting there.
"Well, I've got a few things I want to say for a change."
One of the First Lady's main targets was the President's bed time.
"I said to him the other day, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later'," Mrs Bush said.
"Nine o'clock and Mr Excitement here is in bed, and I am watching Desperate Housewives - with Lynne Cheney. Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife."
Mrs Bush also joked about the President's mother Barbara Bush.
"People think she's a sweet grandmotherly aunt Bea type. She's actually more like (fictional Mafia capo) Don Corleone."
She says that her husband actually knew little about ranching when they bought their property in Crawford, Texas.
"I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year, when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse," she said.
Mrs Bush also ribbed her husband for his notoriously rowdy youth, but said they were meant to be together.
"I was a librarian that spent 12 hours a day in the library. Yet somehow I met George."
Mrs Bush's string of one-liners generated hearty laughs from the audience, which included celebrity names such as Richard Gere, Mary Tyler Moore, Venus and Serena Williams, Goldie Hawn and Elle MacPherson, as well as journalists and politicians.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA go laura!
