President Obama upstaged host Conan O’Brien at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner with a series of self-deprecating digs that drew roars. The president, now 51 and graying, began by admitting he had aged while in office. “These days,” Obama said, “I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.” He joked that he’d tried out “one of Michelle’s tricks” to keep looking youthful, before showing a photoshopped montage of him sporting his wife’s celebrated bangs. He also confessed to getting in trouble “back home” for calling California’s Kamala Harris the best-looking attorney-general in the country. “Who knew Eric Holder was so sensitive?” he said. The president also took a jab at the presidential ambitions of rising Republican star Marco Rubio. “The guy has not even finished a single term in the Senate, and he thinks he’s ready to be president,” said Obama. “Kids these days!”
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