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SNL Spoofs VP Debate: Biden’s Interrupting, Ryan’s Water Drinking & ‘Malarkey’

Oct. 14, 2012 7:47am Madeleine Morgenstern

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Saturday Night Live’s take on the vice presidential debate featured a boisterous, interrupting Joe Biden, a vague, water drinking Paul Ryan, and a tough moderator in Martha Raddatz, who warned both candidates she was not PBS’ Jim Lehrer and not to walk all over her.

Things got started with Ryan, played by Taran Killam, hitting President Barack Obama on unemployment and the debt. Immediately, Jason Sudeikis’ Joe Biden began interrupting and guffawing, slapping the table for emphasis as he laughed.

“Oh God, Martha I’m sorry, but with all due respect this is a bunch of malarkey,” Biden said.

“A bunch of malarkey?” Raddatz, played by cast member Kate McKinnon, asked. “What does that mean?”

“It’s Irish,” Ryan supplied.

“Irish is I come smack that dumb look off your face,” Biden tough-talked.

Later in the sketch, Ryan — sipping almost continuously from his water glass — was asked to provide specifics about his ticket’s economic plan. Unable to do so beyond “close loopholes, bring down tax rates and erase the deficit,” he was still happy to repeat it with hand gestures.

Moving on to the abortion question — which Raddatz prefaced by noting that baseball playoffs are underway — Ryan told the story of seeing first seeing his daughter on the sonogram and nicknaming her “Bean.”

Biden’s answer had to do with his Catholic faith.

“Now when it comes to church, I may not go every Sunday,” he said. “But on Christmas Eve, I am front-row center singing ‘Joy to the World’ as loudly and off-key as I can. I accept the teachings of the Catholic Church, but then I ignore them and do whatever I want. Now I feel kinda guilty about that — but yeah, whatever.”

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horsefeathers99
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 11:11am
And people believe what is said on SNL, they used to be funny, and not so political long ago.

This lady discribes her change of views in politics….
http://www.westernjournalism.com/powerful-video-from-a-former-obama-supporter/

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- Strait Talk Express
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 12:56pm
  I used to love the Silly Night Liars skits (but didn’t watch the rest of the show), but now that ObaMedia has taken over all but the toilet seats in our homes, there’s no point in even turning on the television set. But I always appreciate that the Blaze always tells me what to know about that horrible boring waste of airplay that must be getting political funding like big bird- is what I am saying and it should be cancelled too just like big bird was. Thankudos to Blaze, I say.
  
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- DenverKitty
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 1:35pm
  I watched, liked, and Facebooked that video. Thanks.
  
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- The Giver
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 3:43pm
  I won’t be buying any Bruce Springsteen music anymore either. They are all libs. Paul Ryan’s pointy swirl of **** on forehead reminds me of bats. I love bats! They get their target even in pitch dark. Ryan is on target too.
  Keep turning to God in prayer and He will heal our nation.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 6:36pm
  I wish that skit could’ve been printed on toilet paper,then I could have used it for
  something!
  Dang!…talk about un-funny!
  
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- Yeah_Buddy
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 7:42pm
  I miss that Kristin Wig girl. She’s a hoot.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 11:09am
Lame… and from a troupe that could do so much with the material this administration is handing out.

i fail to understand how comedians above all actors and similar to journalists fail to grasp that simple truth that if they willfully ignore the gaffs and ‘openings’ provided by this administration and completely ignore the goals and intent, they are supporting a slide into a nation wherein the government can choose who will not be heard, what cannot be spoken or printed, and can levy arbitrary inequal punishments upon media in order to control the message being provided to the sheep.

it won’t work… it didn’t even before the age of the internet and social media, but the very practice of communism/ socialism decreases a nation’s productivity and creativity, and fails to eliminate the status/ class system it espouses to address… only instead of entrepreneurs and capitalists having the greater share of money and offering the opportunity for any to attain that, it’s those in power in the government with the influence, insider information, and control over who does what and who gets what, guaranteeing they get what is left as the ‘best’ of everything and their serfs share too little.

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- CatB
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 4:38pm
  I saw it last night .. then changed the channel .. they underplayed Biden so much … he was much more creepy and strange in the real debate … I thought the idea of satire was to make more out of something .. .NOT LESS..
  
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woodyee
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:57am
Blaze, your title is soo misleading…

In fact, you just plain efen lied. I watched the video you posted, and the coclusion I drew was that the skit barely brushed over Joe Biden’s character, while concentrating almost exclusively on Ryan’s; sort of like SNL’s way of misinterpreting the debate to put forth a difrent outcome…

…efen shill…

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- jleeiswwjd
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 5:42pm
  So true!
  
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Jeetman
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:42am
I watched the opening show last night on TV just to see how they’d portray the debate. I was pretty much sure they were going to spoof the Biden/Ryan debate which I also watched. I was right. The opening skit was about the debate. I knew that Biden the jackass would be easy to parody but about the only thing I noticed during the debate that I thought SNL could make fun of would be that false looking smile that Ryan had that I’m sure he was coached to do. Other than that, I didn’t see anything else Ryan did. But the lefty l i b t a r d s resorted to their old tactics and made Ryan look stupid. Although they did make Biden look like a fool, they also made him look like a guy who will kick **** while Ryan looked stupid. I hate these people because they DO affect the opinions of the mass stupid people who unfortunately have the right to vote. As soon as I saw the biased skit, I went back to my computer to watch Blaze TV and my wife changed the channel. That was about all I could take of mainstream TV. I don’t watch any shows on TV with the exception of maybe occasionally catching a show of NCIS. I can’t watch ANY of the reality shows or sitcoms. I’m really thinking about not letting my kids watch Nickelodeon or Disney. They’ve become stupid brain dead music channels. The sitcoms are so stupid I ask my daughter why she even wants to watch them. Nickelodeon had fat ass Michell Obozo on it. Yeah I need to block those channels like I do with MTV and PG/R channels.

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 11:04am
  IF only Biden had been so good instead of the jackass he was. Good try boys/girls of SNL- no cigar!
  That actor who played BIDEN would have made a much better Veep I think. He’s not much of an actor as he didn’t get the crazy stare, the ticks and the hysterical head moves right and all of that before we get to what Biden said!
  Clearly a not-so-subtle attack on Soon-to-be Vice President Ryan- I only saw Ryan drink water once and on the “plan” it’s really important to note that the DEMS are waiting ready to pounce on any loop hole they would mention..the point is that when ROMNEY is PRESIDENT in a few months, he will sit with DEMS and together they will come up with a workable loop hole closure plan – something that should have been done 20 years ago. THE SENATE should get some of our attention. With Harry Reid blocking ALL legislation the result has been to transfer more and more power to the executive branch…nice little deal he and Obama have, eh? Anywhere we can, we need to help GOP SENATE candidates – any of whom would be better than keeping REID in control. Maybe we can get a budget then, maybe we can cut way back on the crony payoffs. But back to SNL… an attempt to make Biden look like a man instead of the crazed nutzoid he is in real life.
  
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ambrosia
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:30am
Who watches this anymore?

It’s like watching a long, slow, painful death-
no-talent writers, no-talent comedians, no-talent talent.

Somebody pull the plug.
Even with this sketch, they had an opportunity to be clever & creative
& as with everything else,
the only thing they created was a big, fat, comedic DUD !

The bloggers on The Blaze have a better sense of snapback humor
than any one over at SNL.

Looking for an easy & lazy way out-
every time they hit the skids,
they bring back the annoyin’ Tina Fey
to do her mischaracterization of Sarah Palin-
boorishly bad…their creative well is dry, dry, dry.

NObody’s laughing because NObody’s watching !

If you really appreciate true talent
& want to laugh your sweet azz off-
YOU TUBE: Stevie Riks
or google his website.

This British darling does impersonations of all the great musicians,
from Bowie to the Bee Gees to Bing
& sings with his own voice.

His impersonations of the Beatles is amazing-
he does more than one or all of them in one sketch-
he has every voice inflection & movement down
with creative writing to boot….INCREDIBLY talented & FUNNY !
He is unbelievable !

Riks is a throwback to the old entertainers
who wore more than one creative hat & kept churning away at their craft
to make people laugh.

He has been around for awhile,
but he SHOULD be one of the biggest names around.

Stevie Riks makes the current “talent” on SNL look & smell like curdled milk.

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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:24am
SNL is so 80′s, grow up morons

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TruthMonkey
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:01am
SNL is so not funny anymore they lost it many many years ago or I’m just getting to old.

They had a chance to capture both Biden and Ryan in a funny way. Ryan did drink too often. It gives the appearance of being nervous.
I thought the water bottle was funny.
However they did a poor job capturing how much of a buffoon and total immature azz that Biden was.
I guess we should be glad that less than half (at best) of the SNL audience actually vote.
Sorry SNL but your just another late night show with little talent.

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- Pouncing Porcupine
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:25am
  SNL used to stand for “Saturday Night Live”.
  Now it stands for “Sodomites and Lesbians”.
  
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- smokie
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 1:31pm
  Comedy is truth. By withholding harsh truths, they are not accomplishing any comedy.
  
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TROONORTH
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:50am
You know, the difference between we Conservatives and liberals everywhere is that Conservatives can laugh at themselves. So Lighten up guys. This is just SNL. They are definitely not worth taking seriously and are often not very funny. But this sketch did have it’s moments, so relax and have a giggle at our expense like liberals can’t. It makes us better people and liberals hate that.

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- Want our country back
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:17am
  Maybe SNL should have focused on the fact that Joe Biden needed water….. Paul is an athlete and as an athlete you sip water continuously to keep hydrated. The whole debate was an SNL skit, Joe Biden should be ashamed. I’m sure his family was wondering what the hell was wrong with him.
  
  He reminded me of a petulant child that needed a time out.
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:18am
  Sorry, but I’m not impressed with anything SNL does.
  
  It’s necessary to endure the entire show to catch one or two incidents or zingers that are truly funny, and putting up with so much that isn’t funny isn’t worthwhile.
  
  NBC does comedy as poorly as it does news………and it uses the forum as a vehicle to interject far left ideology….from time to time…. under the guise of entertainment.
  
  These cultural Marxist geeks are so obsessed with politics they have to include a bias in everything they say and do.
  
  Entertainment to them is not entertainment unless it is based in some kind of perverted desire to condition the viewing audience with their kooky views.
  
  As the empire continues its deterioration, their time is drawing to an end.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 12:40am
  They influenced the last election and got that Cool Obama elected.
  HA HA!
  
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myway
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:42am
I think it back fired on them like the debate. It was funny, but did not change anything until the brought our Bolt to bring in the victim vote.

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- Pouncing Porcupine
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:28am
  Huh?
  
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ellietoo
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:42am
SNL is still on???

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UBECKnSTAND
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:39am
I can’t imagine anything NBC produces as safe for consumption.

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welloddyfriggindah
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:30am
If I didn’t see this here I wouldn’t have seen it, because I don’t watch SNL probably since Farley days. Not funny, I didn’t think.

Its hard too out “goofball” VP Goofball.

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ZRBD
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:30am
Not as funny as I thought it would. They made Martha out to be the hero. Oh well, they couldn’t portray Ryan as normal as he was versus Biden. The monkey strong part was funny.

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- drs1969
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 12:42am
  Of course, she was the jewish one.
  
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ares338
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:28am
SNL is not a choice for me. Someone should do a parody of them.

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- helllsbellls
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:08pm
  They do. MSNBC. Hells Bells.
  
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68Truthseeker
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:18am
Shocking Secrets and Verifiable Facts about Barack Obama the MSM Refuses to Report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxB0FlYayGA

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Susie
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:11am
Please,
stop giving SNL the world stage. I won’t watch this or any other clip from that has-been show. They are not funny PERIOD – haven’t been for years; yet you insist on giving them free promotion to millions of people around the world who would not otherwise bother to watch them.
STOP IT !!!!!!! PLEASE !!!

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:25am
  @SUSIE…
  
  It’s important because many voters (unfortunately) develop their opinions of politicians based on how they are portrayed on SNL. It’s good for us to see what BS they are being fed…
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:34am
  Agreed, SUSIE. SNL probably gets more views here than Live from New York on Saturday night.
  
  That’s a very sad reflection of our society if you are correct, EAST. Although I doubt SNL’s viewers have sufficient critical thinking skills to identify the actors are not actually the people they are portraying.
  
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- ellietoo
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:54am
  Sad to think that registered voters get their news from SNL and Comedy Central.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:09am
  @ COPATS..
  
  Prepare to be saddened. SNL still averages over 3million viewers… sometimes more near elections.
  
  Most Americans believe it was Sarah Palin and not Tina Fey who said “i can see Russia from my house”…. and this is from MRCTV.. extremely conservative organization BTW..:
  
  http://www.mrctv.org/videos/are-you-smarter-politico-reporters
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:33am
  Hey Ellie….
  
  According to a 2010 PEW poll… only 41% of Americans even know who the SITTING VICE PRESIDENT IS!!!
  Most are obviously getting their news from no-where. They could care less.
  
  http://www.pewforum.org/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey-Who-Knows-What-About-Religion.aspx
  
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Oilbama
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 8:59am
At the end they brought in a black man to make Ryan look like a liar about something he didn’t say.

If they wanted to show up the white man lying, they should have brought in the BIGGEST half WHITE lier, Biden’s boss, O.

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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:15am
  FORWARD = 180 degree turn then go with determination
  
  They missed one
  
  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Biden-Bush-tax-cuts/2012/10/12/id/459803?s=al&promo_code=10616-1
  
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honor007
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 8:53am
that could have been way funnier. SNL hasn’t been funny since the mid 90s?

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- drs1969
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 12:46am
  Yeah, Phil Hartman and Dennis Miller were the last great ones.
  
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cliKKer
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 8:49am
Sad part is that in this sketch the actors playing Biden & Moderator actually interrupted Ryan LESS in the sketch then in the actual Debate….. at least they tried to make fun of both sides. I wonder when they will figure out that being funny is not partisan…and when you are partisan they are NOT FUNNY and surprise… people don’t watch when they ARE NOT FUNNY. Just like the press… news should be non-partisan and because they are so partisan NO BODY WATCHES THEM.

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djhrr
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 8:41am
Funny…. Tilted toward the left, but that is not a surprise. Nice to see at least see SOME jabs on the left. BSofA is better any day of the week.

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sta
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 8:31am
I’m sorry, that wasn’t near to funny. It was awful. The only thing that made me smile was the water bottle coming down for Ryan.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 8:36am
  I was laughing my **** off with the Biden description of Scranton. LOL, it was a big effen deal.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 8:55am
  Morning RJ..
  
  You’re right. That was the funniest part. Scranton is a craphole.
  
  It’s tough to do a parody of Biden because nothing tops the real thing.
  It’s like trying to do a parody of Weird Al Yankovic….
  
  If Alec Baldwin wasn’t such an ass, i bet he could do a good Biden.. Does he have the balls, though?
  
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- honor007
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:05am
  I would have used chicklets.
  
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1221
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 8:26am
The original Debate was funnier.

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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 3:13pm
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  1221….. I totally agree.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 6:44am
  I agree also, especially funny was Joe Biden playing himself.
  
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AJAYW
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 8:20am
Biden has lived off the taxpayers his whole life, never had a honest job,. No wonder hes laughing at the fools we in the US has become.

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Oneirishman
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 8:13am
Well that sucked. SNL hasn’t been funny in 30 years.

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- RunawayJury
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 3:26pm
  Completely Agree — SNL hasn’t been funny since John Belushi died (30 years). Their one-sided skits and pathetic attempts at humor are childish and a complete waste of airspace.
  Jury Finds: GUILTY (of poor taste, complete lack of humor, and sophomoric writing)
  
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KingCanon
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 8:09am
Funny from both perspectives.

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