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Yep, SNL Did a Clint Eastwood Empty Chair Sketch

Sep. 16, 2012 5:41pm Madeleine Morgenstern

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Perhaps no summer political story seemed destined for the “Saturday Night Live” treatment more than Clint Eastwood’s empty chair skit at the Republican National Convention. And for the show’s season premiere, SNL delivered, with a promo for “Eastwood and Chair.”

“The comedy duo that rocked the Republican National Convention is taking their act on the road,” it promises. “It’s two full hours of high-waisted hijinks…just American legend Clint Eastwood performing one-half of a conversation with invisible, irritated and foul-mouthed Barack Obama.”

And it’s not just Obama who will be in the “hot seat”: “Eastwood and Chair” promises to grill former President Jimmy Carter (“Nice work on those hostages — that turned out great!”), New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (“Just let people eat soda.”) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (“I think we’re gonna need a bigger chair.”).

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lylejk
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 11:37pm
I’m still waiting to see if they make a skit where the Dems deny God thrice. It won’t happen of course. Not even bothering to hit the play button on this one. BO’s still an empty chair since he rather go to Vegas then do his job when his Libyan Ambassador got killed earlier that same day. :)

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- ijava44
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:35am
  Golly those new yorkers are so creative and funny. yuk yuk yuk
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 2:43am
  SNL-Marxist, progressive, politically correct propaganda by “chosen people” writers.
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:28am
  Clint Eastwood was making his movies during the time of the Weather Underground and Ayers & Dorn were blowing things up. See this great story with clips of Eastwood movies and live footage of news casts regarding the Weather Underground. A great look back in time: http://www.noisyroom.net/blog/2012/09/16/clint-eastwood-the-enforcer-at-the-republican-national-convention/
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 7:50am
  I think Theblaze staff has to be counted among the unoriginal as well.
  
  It’s fine that some of the staff still watch a show that is not relevant. But three SNL stories on the first page of stories is too much.
  
  There must be a UFO story out there to use as filler instead.
  
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Slowman101
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 11:10pm
That was so NOT funny.

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- DIgnified
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:52am
  I know right. Watching the real eastwood senile through that twelve minutes was way funnier.
  
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Socco
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 10:36pm
Hey Morgenstern, how about some more SNL fluff… lol

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marine249
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 10:00pm
to SNL ‘ it ain’t that funny’

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R.A. Bullseye
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 9:27pm
SNL has been in the toilet since 1982.

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Cosmos102
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 9:07pm
Funny stuff. I meant Clint. Not the SNL skit. But hey, they tried.

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MsCamelot
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:48pm
Bahahaha.. they are just mad they didn’t think of it first. :D

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wingnut1955
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:31pm
Actually I thought that Clint should have used an empty suit, not an empty chair.

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Eastinfection
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:40pm
“Wow!… that’s great Bass!”….. best ever:

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/bassomatic/229056

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EndTheGOPTEA
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:24pm
lol.. Oh Man, Clint is just gonna go down as a crazy old koot because of this.. What kind of fool lets a 187 year old man on stage.. lol. Oh Man . Oh.. Romney has LOST!!!

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- FunFunFun
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:13pm
  You are a ageist. You will get older too.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:25pm
  @FUN… don’t fall for it. ENDTHEGOP doesn’t think this skit is really that funny either. She gets her kicks out of exaggerating the hypothetical insults conservatives are supposedly offended by. It’s kind of her “schtick”. … in other words.. she’s a big phony fishing for responses like the one you gave her…. Just ignore her.
  
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- rsvrdg3179
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:23am
  Hey END, in your avatar of someone holding a gun to the head of Uncle Sam, is it supposed to be you or your beloved leader Barry holding the gun? If you don’t like it here in this country, why don’t you move to a more socialist one, oh yeah, and take your lying buddy Alec Baldwin with you, who said that he would leave the US if George Bush were elected…….TWICE! You are a great example of the party of “do what I say and not what I do”, now go and eat your vegetables…….
  
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- ComingUnglued
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 8:01am
  FUNFUNFUN, he won’t get any older under Obamacare. With the rationing of care he might live til 60.
  
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OlefromMN
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:22pm
Laugh tracks are passe.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:50pm
  It was part of the routine. Get it?
  
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Markie Mark
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:17pm
Who gives two craps about SNL, I don’t know a single person who stays up and watching this crap… Why report this, I know there is a lot better news stories than the ones you keep posting.

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- Sleazy Hippo
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:28pm
  Got back from a HS Band fund raiser and decided to watch the news and then SNL with hubby and 17 yo son…
  Thought they were an equal opportunity offender, sux 2B President! LOL
- Meat Puppet
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:44pm
  Agreed, it’s a politically safe way for a journalist to bang out some copy in a hurry. ‘Nobody watches it Glenn but it is still relevant…even though you haven’t watched it in 30 years and you were high at the time.’ When in reality it’s as relevant as a Doonesbury strip. Quick, when was the last time you cared about that? Back when there were three channels and a daily paper, which was 35 years ago and you were high at the time. If I may paraphrase the Toned-Arm Obama, from our 51st state of Puerto Rico — one of 57 including Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala among others — it’s time to create new Traditions Glenn. It’s time for BS of A to restring Team America and start setting the agenda instead of reacting to it.
  
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48Straight
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:47pm
Why does The Blaze employ Mrs Morgenstern? Thee SNL posts in one day? All she does is watch SNL and then bore us with her links to what she thinks is funny. Nobody watches SNL and no one here cares what a bunch of very bad comedy writers churn out in the name of comedy.

The Blaze needs to get someone that does not watch SNL all day long in her office and replace her with someone that is interested in world events.

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50Caliber
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:35pm
SNL jumped the shark, soon after the “Bassomatic”.

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v15
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:32pm
Gran Torino style: “Romney won’t get the moon cricket vote; that will go to President Spook.”

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- wheeler44
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:23pm
  V15, why do you go there? Belittles any legitimate point you were trying to make. Such comments only mean you got nothing of real worth to say.
  
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- v15
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:36pm
  this is definitely true
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:01pm
  I laughed. Not at the racism, just at the term “moon cricket.” I had no idea it was a derogatory term for black people, and I thought I had heard them all. It sounded funnier before I knew what it was.
  
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- DMENTED
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 7:06am
  i thought moon crickets were crab louse migration…whatever…it’s funny
  
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oicu814me2
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:17pm
Come on Blaze! Is there not anything else going on in he world???

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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:17pm
At this point, I think is very safe to say that The Blaze’s staff not only watch SNL, but they enjoyed and were shocked by yesterday’s episode too….

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flatbroke
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:15pm
SNL ceased to be funny about 20 years ago, when they tryed to make comedy by being PC, b/c they were afraid to insult anyone, well now they SSSUUUUUUUUUUCK!

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65Mustang
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:15pm
It is going to be interesting to watch Loren Michaels and the SNL writers take on Clint Eastwood…I refuse to watch anything that promotes Obama’s agenda

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Slayer
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:10pm
Don’t like SNL and the Left wing media which endlessly tells you how stupid you are? There’s something you can do about it:
1. Stop watching SNL.
2. Cancel your cable TV.
3. Turn off your television. Forever.

Or, you can come to the Blaze and other comment boards and cry about how bad the Left and the media are. But remember, they can’t keep going year in and year out without YOUR support.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:02pm
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Does anyone even watch SNL any more?

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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:14pm
  I don’t know anyone. Most kids mostly stay up all night playing video games, because games are the baby-sitter.
  
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PutMoreOnMyPlate
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 5:53pm
I turned off cable for a reason. Come on Blaze *yawn.*

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mbean
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 5:51pm
To the SNL morons they biggest “JOKE” was apparently his age, the skit was all about how old he is. Of course the SNL “WRITERS” will never age so they think it is hilarious.

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- CatB
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:06pm
  Where’s the empty MIND (as in brain if he had one) Biden skit … “they’re gonna put you all back in chains” ???
  
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 5:49pm
I understand that this is a slow news day, but THREE separate stories on the same SNL episode?

Maybe you guys could consider letting the commies at NBC promote their own propaganda and not do all their work for them for free.

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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:08pm
  So, I went to check the bylines on these three stories because I figured that it was just three different writers, each with a different angle on the same episode. But, no. Madeleine Morganstern authored all three.
  
  Madeleine, couldn’t you have just called it “SNL Recap” and condensed it into one post? That way, I could have just skipped the derision altogether, chalking it up to “knowing your enemy.” This smells more like promoting NBC’s propaganda than knowing one’s enemy.
  
  There are plenty of other stories in the news today:
  Anti-Japan protests in China
  Netanyahu says Iran is only 20 yards from the nuclear end-zone
  Occupy planning to hit corporate targets in business attire
  Iran says they have elite troops in Syria
  Egypt PM says some protesters were paid to be there
  
  Yet, here we are looking at the third story of the day rehashing last night’s propaganda from the Ministry of Truth that is NBC.
  
  Sorry, Madeleine. I usually am very appreciative of the work you and your fellow Blaze staffers do, but I couldn’t let this get by without comment.
  
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 5:45pm
SNL = Snarky Numskull Liberals.

I notice there is not one gaffe Joe Biden can make that constitutes a skit. I guess Bikers on your lap aren’t funny.

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- floridareader
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 5:52pm
  @Darmok
  I guess they don’t need to make fun of Biden… he does well it him self.
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:12pm
  They have lampooned Biden. They didn’t mock Eastwood because of a gaffe, although blaming Obama for starting the Afghanistan war and claiming we shouldn’t vote for another lawyer for President were gaffes, considering Romney is a lawyer. They mocked him because he looked like a fool to the 90% of the nation that aren’t tea partiers. The network audience didn’t see the outstanding film on the Romney family because the GOP thought Eastwood would be more effective. That is some serious stupidity, and it’s stupidity like that causing Obama to pull away in the polls. I think their message is way too thin on details, but it’s the repeated misjudgements that are going to get Republicans clobbered in November.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:18pm
  @MARINE25… according to ABC april 2012 in re: Tea Party Movement:
  “….All told, 41 percent of Americans identify themselves as supporters of the movement, compared with a high of 47 percent last September. Forty-five percent oppose it; 14 percent have no opinion.”
  
  http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/tea-party-movement-looks-stalled-half-like-it-less-as-they-hear-more/
  
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