McCain skips the Funniest Celebrity in Washington contest in favor of the $1,000-a-plate dinner in New York, but gets his laughs in anyway:

"[The dais is] like a veritable 'Who's Who' of people soon to be indicted by Eliot Spitzer," he said, referring to the state's hard-charging attorney general.

McCain described the notables in attendance as "the haves, the have-mores, the have-more-than-thats, and finally my good friend Mike Bloomberg."