Comedian Dave Chappelle made an appearance in the Longworth House Office Building early this afternoon. Dressed in a suit this reporter could only envy, Chappelle's entourage was stopped in the basement, near the cafeteria, as hordes of admiring fans snapped pictures and signed autographs.

One family of tourists walked by, eyed the throng and stepped into an elevator with a few staffers and one scribe too late to an interview to stop. "Who was that?" mother tourist inquired. "That was Barack Obama," said father tourist.