It doesn't matter who it is.

We are still living with the fallout of that era -- and what the GOP deliberately did to the country -- to this day.

he was pretty far gone before he left office, though they covered well for him.

Hell, he was always "an actor playing the president" in my opinion. The first of the modern Repub puppets in the Oval Office. I never got the impression he ever really knew what he was doing.

If a press conference varied from his memorized script, you could see the panic in his eyes.

Look, my Mom lost her memory and it's tough for family members, but I still have a sense of humor!

Must have been pretty funny - tragicomic, of course, but few suspected back then.

Our daughter's lovely, dynamic step-mother-in-law developed Alzheimer dementia way too young, and her husband, a fine man with many friends, continued to take her with him to most social gatherings and on the travel they would have done anyway, until it was no longer possible. Their friends got to watch her decline, but they also got to help her have a pleasant life even when she didn't remember them and clung close to her husband.

As for conservatives not liking it, just one item on their long list of failures these days. First step may be to stop digging, but before that they have to acknowledge to themselves what they've been doing wrong. Dropping the shovels won't work if they won't turn off the backhoes.

We shall see.

There is a specific and relevant difference between simple comedy and satire. Comedy is humor for its own sake, while satire uses wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.

Nothing funny about it. Use a true story with lessons learned.

well, ok, some would.

The film is laughing at a country that elected and retained a chief executive whose mental faculties were rotting away on a world stage.

Saint Ronnie was a national embarrassment. He toasted the people of Bolivia while at a state dinner in Brazil. He told a fake story of a Medal of Honor recipient to a group of real Medal of Honor recipients. He forgot the name and face of his only black cabinet member. It was a national joke that Saint Ronnie knew about the Iran-Contra deal, but forgot all about it. His handlers kept him from going off script for most of his second term and when reporters did manage to catch him outside of the White House and ask him impromptu questions, he was obviously oblivious to just about everything that was going on in his own administration.

Hell, just think how many brilliant comedic works are set in wars?

This is mild.

Will is hysterically funny.

I am sure if Will Ferrell is involved in the project, Reagan will not be used as ridicule anymore than he deserves.

Given he did so much harm to so many, if this is the worst that happens to his memory....

job (VP, Speaker, etc) undergo neurological evaluation for dementia. Reagan's impairment was obvious by the end of his first term, Bush the Lesser also was questionable, and Trump is displaying a lot of traits more logically explained by dementia.

are border insane IMO.

Reagan was the undertaker who buried the American middle class.

I have no respect for his memory.

Many people who have watched helplessly while a loved one disappeared into that nothingness will be offended at the notion of it being played for laughs.

Criticize the man for anything and everything that he was responsible for. That's fair game. But to ridicule his illness can only be in the worst possible taste and reflects far more negatively on Mr. Farrell than on Ronald Reagan.

Then one can get some sense of what it's like to let them run the country.

Sorry. Republics needs to shut up about how he made us proud. I feel your pain, but your loved ones who went through this were not POTUS-and revered by the political party that is ruining our country.

that raygun the great leader had dementia and could not lead us at all - his staff and his VP were illegally running the country at least in his last term and who knows how much longer. Yet a good part of our country thinks he was so right about so many things.

but, people need to know why he says such insane stuff and talks in word salads.

inexcusable.....to have him step down and to elevate the vp would have been the honorable thing to do.
but then again the gop is without honor

make the damn movie
make those in power explain themselves

when you're in politics ANYTHING is open season...if you or your family can't stand it-then don't run or get out of politics. I ran for political office in a very high profile race and got lots of shit..in fact my opponent a conservative DINO even verbally accosted my 5 year old son....it comes with the territory

but I have to agree with them here. That's not funny and it's an insult to victims of the disease and their loved ones. Not cool.

Yes, the degree to which Reagan was a prop president needs to be exposed and discussed. I don't care how good the script is, I won't watch any production of it. And FTR I think Reagan was the worst president in my lifetime --even worse than W.

..sorry, last week's Heroin skit was a major fail for SNL...and this one would be for Ferrell, (just heard he dropped out of the project anyway)...there are plenty of other aspects of Reagan that could be made fun of...leave the disease alone though.