SNL - Obama played by

Fred Armisen

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Oh wait - it was a riff on CNN. That's OK.

If you say it was funny then I'll catch it at 11:40 my time
but I haven't watched it in years because they lost their edge.

Is it right in the beginning?

If you're not an Obama fan, it was pretty brutal.

so I will catch it no matter who it skews.

Good parody is good parody.

I can't ruin it for you! ;) But it was funny to me; others, maybe not so much. Tensions are high...

just be careful for the extra powerful PMS.

Talk about cutting through the BS!!!!!!

If you don't have one of those boxes, you're out of luck...

Your local NBC affiliate....

I dunno if it's gonna be on news sites already.

Armisen is a great impressionist and they did a really good job with the makeup.

I just think it wasn't that well written a sketch.

I'm watching the show right now. Here's a pic of Fred.

That GEEZER TV sketch with the grandkids was a laugh-riot!

They should give those writers forced vacations. It certainly refreshed their creative juices.

but the hillary perosn was dead on!

how everyone is drunk on the kool aide.....
!

He wasn't good.

:rofl:

...

:eyes:

Just the opposite, it seemed.

so between that and Tina fey openly shilling for Clinton, you have it coming across that the media loves Obama and has given him the benefit of the doubt in the last debate which is FAR from the truth!!!

Obama people, the fix is in. You see the media boosting Hillary today. From showing her tirade a million times to talking about Tavis Smiley even though black leaders agreed with Obama's decision on the leadership conference, etc... YOu will note that there was zero media coverage of all the Clinton attack mailers in response to her tiraded today.

I am so afraid that once again, we will not have a decent candidate to vote for come November.
The powers that be want the Clintons and I'm afraid they will do everything they can to get them.

Its going to be no holds barred going after Obama the next few weeks.

I watched Candy Crowley call it for Obama the other night, simply because it was a draw, and 'you always give the draw to the front runner.'

bad.

Making up for Tweety and Shuster.

Makes a lot more sense the way you explain it.

and I covered this in another thread, but he's so unlike any other polician we've seen, that it's going to be very very difficult to parody him.

And I think you saw that in the first skit.


Hillary is much much easier.

I'm surprised SNL settled on Fred for the look.

but most people don't see Obama as a preacher. I think that's just his detractors...the few of them there are.

He cracked me up!

He had the pause-after-each-word pattern in Obama's speaking style down pat. It was a great skit.

He's VERY much a typical politician, and he's a mere mortal.

This all gives me a very bad feeling: such irrational adulation and ignoring of his faults and mistakes does not bode well. It's simply human nature in play here, and having flown so very high, he's bound to have an Icarus moment at the hands of the unwashed.

It's great to sense such enthusiasm as he engenders, but so very much of it is baseless.

He's an okay guy when compared to most other politicians, but he's no altruistic beacon of sublimity, and those who insist he is set us all up for a big fall.

A little bit of cool rationality and perspective are in order.

from the Obama supporters and the Hillary supporters. It's weird all around for me. But funnily enough my wife accused me of having a man crush on Edwards when he was still in.

There were Deaniacs and Clarkizoids who brooked no dissent and spoke in heroic terms, but NEVER in such grandiose and even religious hyperbole. The most nauseating of the Clintonites have scoffed and jeered with inevitability, but there's never been such a sense of other-worldliness or historic grandeur spouted about her; she's been hagiographed as an exemplary mortal, but that's about all.

This current wave of rapture scares the snot out of me; that's the kind of blinkered recklessness that dismisses tactical missteps and strides forth with nothing short of crusading zeal.

Lest we forget human nature, it's pretty obvious that the more irrational and exhuberant the love for an individual, the more vindictive and fired-up the opposition, and the sheer giddiness of some of his support just invites derision. The reactionaries will be hot out of the blocks the moment he's confirmed as the nominee or nominee-apparent, and it's easy to characterize lefties as dangerous, impractical and deluded children. It's REALLY easy to do that when we're actually acting that way.

Sure, other candidates have sparked extremes, but the worst of this guy's accolytes take the cake, the bakery and the truck that delivers the loaves and fishes.

do not take kindly to any criticism of him.

and will do so toot sweet and repeatedly.

Like they do ALL other politicians when they want to. And trust me, one comedian will end up doing it spot on and hysterically funny.

:spray:

About time that the fawning, trendy, socially ambitions mainstream press was the butt of national scorn.

:rofl:

and totally forgot about it. Hope it reruns again......

:)

I hope. Has Hucleberry Hound been on yet?

:rofl:

That was an awesome sketch, and I love his Obama. :rofl:

Cindy McCain wears Phoenix pins......

(response to Michelle hates America)

He can't imitate Obama well at all. They really have got to find someone to play him. Amy Poehler does a good Hillary.

Funny skit, though.

when it's so pathetically true.

It pulled the lid off what everyone sees happening, but no one can quite articulate--and it did it with humor. No one wants to hear a scold, but the same message, delivered with humor, RESONATES.

Mindless adulation, not much substance.

You know the saying, the truth shall set you free?

See if you can catch it again--it really was rather 'liberating.'

This is the best show I've seen in a while.

I remember, eons ago, laughing at one that included a NAVY commercial that started out "Port of Call...Bayonne, New Jersey...." and showed the "glamorous" life of a Navy Sailor. That one made me laugh like hell, too, and this sketch was as good!

it's a shame they don't have any black people who can play a black person.

When I heard earlier this week that they were scrambling to find a black actor to play Obama, I thought, "If you had bothered to include more than one black person a year on your show, maybe this wouldn't be a problem."

so they don't do any skits that would need any black cast members. They usually carry at least 2, but Finesse Mitchell was dropped before last season because he never got in any skits.

Ever since Tim Meadows left it's been like that.

since apparently, the world view of the 20- and 30-something SNL writers is all white.

Tim Meadows was given more time than Chris Rock.

I never really found Tim funny... humorous yes, but not funny.

(Darryl Hammond) does a great Jesse Jackson.

Who can blame them? If you can make more for doing less, it's crazy not to...

Tracy Morgan, Kenan Thompson, (who is still with the cast), Maya Rudolph (whose mom was the wonderful, late, great Minnie Ripperton), Finesse Mitchell...those are the more recent members, so they haven't been without black/biracial ensemble players. I remember the days of Garrett Morris doing "News for the Deaf" and that was many years back!

I don't think they ever worry about matching race to character, though--otherwise you wouldn't see Maya doing Donatella Versace.

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The black actors tend to be overused in SNL sketches--they get more airtime, more sketches, more characters, more costume changes, and they BURN OUT. The up side is, they also get more EXPOSURE, so they're offered other gigs, either TV (Tracy Morgan, eg) or film (Eddie Murphy et al) that pay more and don't require that week in/week out grind.

You are really SICK. LEAPING to a "worst case" conclusion--did you strain something with that massive leap?

You couldn't do a better job of getting it completely fucking wrong if you tried.

But then...ASSuming will do that to you. The operative syllable being ASS.

to hire plenty of white people each year. And the black cast members have generally left because they don't get any airtime and the skits they are given often just have them behave like buffoons.

They just don't bother hiring black actors. Period. One or two black actors per season - actors whom they hardly give any skits or airtime to. It's disgraceful.

After all, he's as much one as the other.

Right?



evil grin

and they NEVER use them. I don't get it.

of institutional racism.

It's nauseating to see the one black actor they use each year having to dress in drag whenever a black woman character is called for.

Sad.

It is realistic. It is true.
:kick:

:shrug:

And true. People see reality through humor faster than they do when they're being lectured.

And Tina Fey's Weekend Update (Bitch is the New Black) was right on the money, too!

You'd think the writers would, I dunno, not phone it in for the first sketch?

I mean, was that really necessary?

:nopity:

what to do. Hopefully Hillz will be gone soon :D

I like her, so I will write her in.
I'll still work to defeat Chris Shays though.

has clearly affected your thinking.
I am not voting for a Republican.

unless you know 100% for sure that your state isnt a swing state IDK how you can do that and risk a Pres. McCain...

:rofl:

They can dish, but they can't take!

Sad group.

Have you never watched SNL before, like ever?

So what, Tina Fey likes Hillary, big deal. Get over it.

sorry, women openly admitting they are voting for hillary because she's a woman just really irritates me...:/

supposed to be so obvious with its biases (and Obama-lovin').

:wtf:

while Obama is getting a clear sailing.

You don't complain about MSNBC being a shill for Obama, now, do you?

I've been laughing my ass off. Of course, I 'm kind of drunk right now.

Maybe that is what HRC should use for her new slogan. Lol

:eyes:

That very well could have been the worst impression of a political figure I've seen anywhere.

God, getting a white man to play Obama. Nice. :-(

"Austin, Testi - Texas."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XLZ18U1Txnc

over the past 33 years, you would think they could get somebody to play Sen. Obama.

Garrett Morris
Eddie Murphy
Tim Meadows
Tracy Morgan

Just to name a few. I'm sure I'm leaving some out, but I just woke up. Tracy Morgan may actually be INSANE, but he is the funniest man on the planet, IMHO. Every time I see a "Brian Fellows" segment, I laugh so hard I can't breathe. Kenan Thompson (sp?) is about 2x times too big to portray the rail-thin Senator from Illinois, not to mention the fact that I'll never forgive him for what he did to Fat Albert ... ugh.

I haven't watched SNL in a while, I'll have to youtube that clip from last night....