Before the Salahis crashed White House, this crasher made Oscar history -- and naked too

The hubbub about Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who crashed the first state dinner hosted by President Obama, got us thinking about other unauthorized appearances at notable events.

Perhaps the most famous party crasher is Scott Weiss, who successfully found his way into the Grammys and — in his most audacious moment — the Oscars. His antics were described in detail earlier this year in a highly readable and entertaining Column One by our colleague Chris Lee.

And speaking of the Oscars, who can forget the time a man crashed the live television broadcast while the inimitable David Niven was preparing to give out an award? Unlike the Salahis, the uninvited man was easy to detect, mostly because he wasn’t wearing clothes.

The video below shows not only the streaker (with naughty bits chastely blurred) but that the suave Niven didn’t need a script to deliver, with perfect timing, the perfect punch line. The Niven snippet comes about two minutes into the video (it's worth the wait). You also get to see some very funny Oscar moments from Whoopie Goldberg, Doris Day and others.

-- Steve Padilla

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Comments

[Houston]

Same as the BALLOON BOY Heene family, these people should be arrested for lying to authorities (secret service)......LOS ANGELES TIMES, where is your outrage and 24 hour coverage of this story, as with the Heene family?

[Houston]

Good article

[Phillip]

Good article

[Paul Brogan]

Loved all of the clips but the Doris Day clip is NOT from the Academy Awards but from the Golden Globe Awards held in January of 1989 honoring 1988 achievments. Miss Day received the DeMille Award for her career. She has apparently been approached about receiving an Honorary Oscar but has refused.

[RELK]

Why/ how did she crash the dinner? Was she not invited or something? Or was she just acting outrageous??
I seen that she had gotten her picture taken with "famous" people persay, is that why she is getting all of this publicity?
Was this some sort of task for her to be on a reality TV show?? The task being that she had to crash the White House dinner party?? I know it sounds crazy, but now-a-days, people do anything to get in the media or get on TV.
Please help answer my question.
Thank you,
RELK

[steve rodriguez]

The Obama Administration is weak on National Security and White House security!!!!