The 2014 White House Correspondents Dinner, held on Saturday, May 3, was fondly called a "nerd prom" by some attendees. This occasion brings together the power players in D.C. and journalists to meet with celebrities, enjoy a few drinks, and trade topical banter.

Sponsored by the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), the extravaganza features a pair of comedy routines, one starring a prominent entertainer and the other starring the president himself. It has become a tradition that both use this segment to roast each other and to joke about the well-known names in the audience. The event received even more fanfare than usual this year, as it was also the celebration of the Correspondents' Association's centennial.

Joel McHale, comedian host of "The Soup," was the dinner's host this year.

The list of guests, as always, included a number of high-level politicians. Notables ranged from lawmakers to governors to officers of the executive branch. Both hosts took jabs at Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., making light of recent revelations about his abuse of power to how he harassed political enemies by manipulating bridge traffic. Kathleen Sebelius, former Secretary of Health, even participated in a self-deprecating joke about the error-prone debut of the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges.

Entertainers who attended this year included:

Tony Goldwyn, Bellamy Young, Darby Stanchfield, Scott Foley, Jeff Perry, Katie Lowes, and Guillermo Diaz of "Scandal"

Patrick Stewart of "X-Men"

Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julianna Margulies, and Sofia Vergara of "The Good Wife"

Chip Esten and Kimberly Williams-Paisley of "Nashville"

Darren Criss of "Glee"

David McCallum of "NCIS" 
Country singer Brad Paisley

Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan

Actor Emilio Estefan

Director Spike Jonze

Lupita Nyong'o of "12 Years A Slave" 

Jeff Goldblum of "The Grand Budapest Hotel" 

Freida Pinto of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and "Slumdog Millionaire" 

Josh Gad of "Frozen"

Other targets of jokes included the Republican lawmakers who have made the latest session of Congress the least productive and most deadlock-prone in recent memory, in part by staging dozens of time-consuming votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act that all went nowhere.

The White House Correspondents' Association Annual Dinner can be viewed on C-SPAN here.