r.j. fried, chris licht, and stephen colbert for getting us warmed up tonight. i think i can speak for all of us in this room when i say that we're sending our very best thoughts to former president george h.w. bush tonight. he was, of course, a repeat guest at our dinner and he's been recovering after his hospitalization, and of course the passing of former first lady barbara bush, his wife of 73 years. and i was listening to old tapes of 41's monologues as i got ready for the dinner. one of my favorites was where he's talking about dana carvy's impersonations of him on "snl." if you guys remember, president bush had infamously taken this phone call from someone he thought was rafsanjani, the iranian president, but it wasn't. at the dinner he joked dana