When you're sharing the stage with President Barack Obama, you kind of have to wear clothes. 

And that was the unlikely match-up as the 44th President of the United States joked that he was the supporting act for the oft-pantless Lady Gaga, who performed at the Human Rights Campaign dinner Saturday night, before the National Equality March in Washington, D.C.

"It is a privilege to be here tonight to open for Lady Gaga," said the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president. "I've made it."

The diva ditched her wacky masks and leotards for a more serious black dress and John Lennon-esque shades as she performed the singer's "Imagine," changing the lyrics to reference Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder. 

The college student's death has been a rallying cry for the gay rights movement. His parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard were honored with the Edward M. Kennedy National Leadership Award at the dinner. 

 "I'm not going to play one of my songs tonight, because tonight is not about me." Gaga said before she sang and played a white grand piano. "It's about you."

Castmembers from Fox's Glee also performed. 

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Mr. President, you've just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What are you going to do next?

Twitter, of course!

"Humbled," was all Barack Obama wrote on his account, but the post has been RT'ed so much throughout the Twitterverse that the word is near the top of the trending topics.

Needless to say, several celebs have chimed in with re-tweets and reactions positive and negative.

High School Musical's Corbin Bleu adds to his RT, "One of the reasons why I admire him." Modern Family's Jesse Tyler writes, "Love it! Congrats Obombs!!!!!" Dollhouse's Eliza Dushku links to CNN's story and says, "Incredible!"

"OBAMA is the greatest," types Chris Brown.

Then there was one of our favorite tweeps, Kirstie Alley, who was dubious of the choice...

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Last year it was whether he had insulted Sarah Palin by questioning whether John McCain was trying to put "lipstick on a pig." But this year, President Barack Obama had some real controversies to clear up.

"First of all, I think it's important to remember that I was actually black before the election," Obama told David Letterman today during his first Late Show sit-down since being elected.

"Really!" exclaimed the veteran talk-show host, to which the commander in chief replied, deadpan, "It's true."

"How long have you been a black man?" Letterman replied. He had set off the exchange by asking Obama whether he feels that some of the more spiteful reactions to his health-care agenda have been racially motivated.

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Kanye West and Taylor Swift have negotiated a truce. Phew! It took two blog apologies (IN CAPS!!!), one Leno apology, a View appearance and President Barack Obama getting involved, but we still managed to make it through this thing.

We stood together as a nation and said: Not cool, Kanye.

Even better, the Internet blessed the world with the Interrupting Kanye meme. If you think the real-life Kanye doesn't have any tact, well, the interrupting Kanye is even worse.

Whether it's Edward Cullen or the president, Kanye shows up with his mic, gives his "I'm gonna let you finish" speech and ruins everything.

Yes, there are more...

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Someone has clearly been in sitcoms too long: Give him a half-hour (minus commercial breaks) and there's no problem Chuck Sheen can't solve.

The Two and a Half Men star has loosed upon the Internet "Twenty Minutes with the President," an incredible piece of fantasy journalism (or a failed treatment from his dad's West Wing days, we can't be sure) imagining a meeting between himself and President Barack Obama in which Charlie Sheen schools the ruler of the free world about the government's real role in the Sept. 11 attacks—as perceived, that is, by the actor's conspiracy theorist mind.

The very lengthy, very researched and very self-aggrandizing piece (it only takes four lines before Sheen has Obama proclaiming his love of the CBS hit) was published as a transcript of the duo's entirely fabricated encounter, and published online by controversial radio host Alex Jones yesterday—even more controversially, when the piece first went up, Jones presented it as actually having happened.

Though you'd think it would be easy enough to set up, what with a president in the family and all.

As for the piece, well, if there's one thing Sheen does know it's how to set a dramatic scene:

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