VIDEO: Scenes From Peabody's First St. Paddy's Day Roast

Wiggin Auditorium was full up Saturday morning for the First Annual St. Patrick's Day Breakfast and Roast at City Hall.

City Council President and Treadwell's Ice Cream owner Tom Gould was the host and started off the wisecracking shortly after breakfast was served -- between him and several other Peabody politicians who took the podium, virtually no one and no topic was spared (all in good fun, of course).

The jokes -- when they weren't targeted at city politicians -- covered everything from recent pay raises for the mayor and city councilors and the now infamous billboard on Lowell Street to medical marijuana and Congressman John Tierney's fierce battle for re-election.

Tierney, state Sen. Joan Lovely and state Rep. Ted Speliotis were all special guests for the roast.

About $5,000 was also raised for Haven from Hunger.

And in the realm of interesting facts, outside Boston the Peabody area is actually the third largest concentration of Irish folk in the country -- 15.8 percent of the population, according to census data.