Bob and Lee Woodruff know how to throw a party. Or at least a pre-party. At the private reception (for mega-donors) upstairs from Good Morning America's studio at last night's Stand Up For Heroes event, guests were ushered up to the second floor on a freight elevator that had its own bar. We've already put a call in to our building manager to see about the possibility of duplicating The Best Party Idea Ever here at Jossip HQ.

At the very least, the elevator bar might explain why the CBS honcho Les Moonves was semi-willing to engage us in conversation a little while later, if only to report his company was "making progress" with the WGA strike. And though GMA anchor Robin Roberts – looking flawless and joined that evening by her "chemo buddy" – isn't directly affected, she had "so many friends" who were complaining about their TV shows going dark. Namely, the soap operas. Their pain? We felt.

Stocked with injured U.S. soliders, the pre-party was where the man of the night and newest media commodity, Bob and Lee Woodruff, held court, along with brother Dave and their parents. It's also where Meet the Press's Tim Russert relayed the pain of his friends who are writers on Leno and Letterman. Like, they're not getting paid for those World Wide Web DLs!

But over at Town Hall was where we followed Daily News gossip George Rush, and his son, inside for the Conan O'Brien-hosted main event. Bruce Springstein performed … knock-knock jokes (the Interuppting Cow one) before he auctioned off his motorcycle for $90k-something, with Robin Williams' wife rumored to be the bidder. FoxNews.com gossip Roger Friedman exploded in applause during The Boss' music portion after exchanging emails with Peggy Siegel over a seating mix-up.

Stand-up routines followed, with Lewis Black asking that "all you Christian pricks" you vote for Santa in '08 to show the rest of thw world that the U.S. is crazier than they'll ever be, and Robin Williams' sweating.

Afterward in the lobby, James Gandolfini snapped photos with adoring fans. That grin on his face? It was saying something like, "WGA strike? F-that!."

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