Emcees Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane cracked up the audience at AmFar’s Seasons of Hope Gala at Cipriani when Lane joked, “Everyone wants to know why there was no mention of you by Sarah Jessica Parker at the Golden Globes.” Broderick’s reply: “If you watch the tape really closely, you can see she was thanking me in Morse code with rapid eye blinks, saying ‘Thank you, Matthew, and please give our dog Sally a kiss.’” Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell quipped, “If you work hard and don’t get to the top in New York, that’s why we have shrinks and Prozac.” Amfar, which lists gala chairs like Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Kenneth Cole, and Elizabeth Taylor, is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to AIDS research. Capping off the hopeful evening: a winning performance by Barry Manilow.