David Cross Did Cocaine 65 Feet From President Obama

"Who has one thumb and did coke next to the leader of the free world?" (AP)

He bragged about it in 2009 but it turns out he wasn't kidding: David Cross did cocaine in the same room as President Obama during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. "It wasn’t even that much cocaine. It was literally the size of, I don’t know, a tick," Cross tells Playboy this month. Yes, but how much of that cocaine made its way across the room and up into the president's nose?

Cross says he was 65 feet from the president when he snorted that fine white china, and didn't even get high: "The jolt was similar to licking an empty espresso cup. It wasn’t about that. It was just about being able to say that I did it, that I did cocaine in the same room as the president." The fallout however, is that his fianceé who was invited to the dinner, Amber Tamblyn, is likely blackballed (or 8-balled?) from official events.

Still, it makes us feel lame for wearing a shirt with a joint-smoking, switchblade wielding banana on a White House tour. No one even noticed. And since you read Playboy for the articles, here's a solid interview the publication did with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman about how we're all fucked.

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By Christopher Robbins in Arts & Entertainment on February 21, 2012 11:15 AM

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fosiacat

you know who else does coke in the same room as barack obama? joe biden.

Ryan Ng

who cares?

nayerr

Can I use this chair? Seriously can I use it? I need it...for the audition.

You got the goods....

MmmCashews

I like him even more now, if you think what he did was stupid you probably like Dane Cook. And Hitler.

CJ Morgan

Wait, isn’t “fine white china” heroin? Not that I would know or anything. I mean, I had a friend in college. I’m gonna go now.

Matthew Simmons

Lame

BJ

President Obama did "some blow" as he likes to say, zero feet from President Obama.

Capital_7

I love David Cross, but this is kind of a douchey move.

wonderchimp5

Oh Tobias, you old blowhard!

Quarlo

Tool. Not the band.

"Tim Osman"

Thanks for the clarification on that never would have guessed without it

Quarlo

Yeah, sure.

birdtird

keith richards snorted his dad, enough said

masterjarvis

keith richards is his own dad! enough said

"Tim Osman"

There is Keith Richards and then there is everyone else

naala

Unless he also does blow in his regular life, this is poseur-ish and lame ...

edgie186

1992 called: said they were impressed you still use "poseur" in the future. I had to tell them it was just you. Thanks for putting me in that awkward position, appreciate it.