Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) responded to President Obama's jab at him during the White House Correspondents' Dinner with a tongue-in-cheek tweet.

Chef Emeril Lagasse will be designing the menu for the Radio & TV Correspondents Association annual dinner, which takes place in June, the association announced on Monday.

Fox News photographer John Wallace, who chairs the dinner, said the night will have a Mardi Gras theme: "Laissez les bons temps rouler" — Let the Good Times Roll.

Guests in recovery mode from a late night at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner had some gourmet bites to help them with any post-dinner hangover, as Thomson Reuters and Yahoo! News hosted a “Top Chef” brunch at the Hay-Adams hotel in downtown Washington.

Former cast members from the hit Bravo cooking competition were on-hand to show off their best politically inspired dishes. 

Spike Mendelsohn, who owns We the Pizza and Good Stuff Eatery (a fave among the first family) on Capitol Hill, whipped up an artichoke cappuccino, served in espresso cups, for the Sunday brunch. The drinkable goodie, Mendelsohn says, was inspired by Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” healthy eating and fitness initiative. 

“I wanted to do something [with] vegetables,” Mendelsohn told ITK.

NBA basketball player Jason Collins on Monday became the first openly gay athlete in major men's sports.

SPOTTED: Katy Perry grabbing a post-White House Correspondents’ Association dinner meal at the Blue Duck Tavern in Georgetown.

With her agent in tow, the pop star and President Obama supporter — who attended Saturday's festivities at the Washington Hilton hotel — was eyed having a late afternoon brunch Sunday at the culinary hotspot.

Our spy tells ITK the “Wide Awake” singer was donning a long, floral skirt and black top.

In an instance of “random sighting made possible only during ‘nerd prom,’” attorney Sandra Fluke and actor Chris Tucker were both spotted at a soiree following the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner.

The “Rush Hour” star, 41, and the woman who ignited a firestorm after Rush Limbaugh criticized her remarks to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about birth control were among the hundreds of guests that flocked to the Carnegie Library in Washington’s Mount Vernon Square Saturday for a post-dinner shindig hosted by Capitol File magazine and the Bipartisan Policy Center.

The glossy mag’s 8th annual after-party was dubbed “one of the few remaining social events where people of every political persuasion can get together.”

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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) got her photo taken with Nicole Kidman and Connie Britton as stars worked the red carpet Saturday.

BuzzFeed, the pop culture website known for its edgy political coverage, didn’t get a table at the White House Correspondents Dinner, but still had its fingerprints all over Saturday night’s festivities.

Obama joked about his administration and the press corps, and paid tribute to first responders in Boston and West, Texas.