Obama pokes fun at Clinton emails, weed and aging

WASHINGTON, March 15 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama's standup routine at the Gridiron Club and Foundation's annual dinner Saturday drew a standing ovation from the some 650 reporters, lawmakers and Washington insiders in attendance.

Obama took aim at Hillary Clinton's email scandal, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's comment he didn't love America and even Vice President Joe Biden's too-close-for-comfort approach.

"Joe rubs my shoulders, too," the president said. "It's not bad. It feels pretty good. I don't let him give me a pedicure, but..."

Obama was among the hundreds who hobnobbed at the annual dinner to raise money for a journalism scholarship fund. The dinner is closed to the public to allow attendees to lower their guard for not-so-gentle humor that mostly stays behind closed doors. TV cameras, radio microphones and still cameras are not allowed, although this year a select group of pool print reporters were allowed to take notes.

Clad in a white tie, Obama opened the evening saying he would likely get more jokes this year than in the past.

"I'm not saying I'm any funnier. I'm saying weed is now legal in D.C.," he said.

He went on to get a laugh over the archiving of Clinton's emails on a private server when she was secretary of state, saying he once considered himself tech-savvy.

"Now I'm yesterday's news, and Hillary has got a server in her house. I didn't even know you could have one of those in your house. I am so far behind. Did you know that? I would have gotten one," he said.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, thought to be a Republican presidential nominee in 2016, chimed in during the evening with his own quips.

"I want to get this out of the way once and for all. I believe President Obama loves America and every single American in it. Except for Rudy Giuliani," Walker said, referring to Giuliani's assertion Obama does not love America.

"If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya," Obama shot back later in the evening, referring to unsubstantiated theories he wasn't born in the United States.