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White House Correspondents' Video: Watch President Obama's 10 Best Jokes

Well, hello there, John Boehner! The former Speaker of the House, who made news this week by likening Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz to  “Lucifer in the flesh,” turned out to be the unexpected guest star of President Barack Obama‘s eighth and final speech at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner In a pre-taped bit that closed out POTUS’ intermittently hilarious monologue, Obama and Boehner strolled through the White House donning Ray-Bans, wiped away tears while screening  Toy Story  and even threatened to partake of publicly verboten cigarettes. “You want one? Hmm?” asked Boehner, as Obama eyed the carcinogen with a goofy desire funnier than anything we’ve seen on  Saturday Night Live  in the last few months. (Hey, can we get an #ObamaForSNLHost hashtag trending tonight?) Still, it was the President’s half hour-plus address that brought the loudest and most varied laughs. (Was it me, or did Obama hit his former Secret...