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SNL’s Hilariously Accurate Musical Tribute to Hugo Chavez

Mar. 10, 2013 4:36pm Madeleine Morgenstern

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“Saturday Night Live” gave a mocking musical tribute to deceased Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chavez, highlighting his calling then-President George W. Bush the devil and declaring that capitalism killed life on Mars.

Guest host Justin Timberlake played Elton John and performed an amended version of “Candle in the Wind.”

“I should confess I didn’t know Hugo Chavez very well,” Timberlake-as-Elton said. “I did a bit of research and it turns out President Chavez was quite a complex man. So here it goes, everything in this song is true.”

Goodbye, Hugo C. You had such great style and panache
You were a man of the people and you liked to wear a sash
You called George Bush the devil when you spoke at the U.N.
You said it smelled like sulfur and you called him Mr. Danger

It seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind
If a candle could pull out two pistols at a press conference
You said the U.S. caused earthquakes and you outlawed Coke Zero
And on your shoulder stood your parrot with a matching red beret

You had your own TV show, it was called ‘Hello President’ (Great name)
It wasn’t about politics, you sometimes danced and made up raps
You helped to make a country the kidnapping capital of the world
But you also increased milk production by almost 50 percent

And it seems to me you once gave a speech where you encouraged shorter showers
And another thing you said was capitalism killed Mars
Yes you believed in a civilization that existed on the surface of Mars
But capitalism killed it off, when it was introduced to Mars (He actually said that)

You were a hero to your people and you never gave up the fight
We’ll miss you, Hugo Chavez, because — live from New York, it’s Saturday night!

NBC did not post an official version of the performance online.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 9:26pm
Justin Timberlake is way too talented to be wasting it on a tribute to El Diablo Chavez.

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- searcher619
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 12:12am
  Talented? Something tells me you haven’t seen that disaster of a scifi film he did. Plus his music isn’t all that good.
  
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- AtomSmashers
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:21am
  not really haha.
  
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- Leonaroski
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 12:20pm
  NBC took it down on this page. George Soros is angry with SNL
  
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- JLindsay
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 12:58pm
  Actually, I kind of like the kid. He did a good job in Eastwood’s Trouble With The Curve. Of course I liked Sinatra’s and Elvis’ acting better than their music too. LOL.
  
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- Long_live_Chavez
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 10:07pm
  Hahaha , how funny is this Chavez.. These people LOVE you. They take beautiful time to make a tribute in your name. ;) a percentage% of American citizens only listen to the news coverage on CNN and channel 5 but don’t take a second to actually get up and research their own information and have their OWN brains,(something that Chavez high encouraged to all his people) and not be another illiterate repeating like the mocking bird! Because ignorance is a deadly disease that is rapidly intoxicating minds such as yours. I will pray for you.. And if your going to reply to THIS comment that I just posted, I suggest that you come up with an elaborate argument to back up your incoherent comment towards that President.. I only suggest that you do your digging before “repeating” things that you have no true knowledge of. Justin T. said it well “He was a man of his people” and ALWAYS will be. with that said. ( Long live PEACE AND UNITY :) Much love to all of you. ♥
  
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TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 8:23pm
Nope, that wasn’t the funny part of SNL last night, the ’5 TIMES HOSTING’ skit was hilarious. Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Danny Ackroyd, Martin Short–that was the highlight. I like J.T.’s comedy but the music does nothing for me.

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- Xanderson
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 8:47pm
  That was fun to watch– also seeing Steve Martin and Dan Akroyd as the wild and crazy Czechs Was good for nostalgia! Still so silly after decades! Much more funny than the in your face filth on most episodes these days : )
  
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- TRONINTHEMORNING
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 8:57pm
  Totally agreed ‘X’…
  
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Southernsoul
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:59pm
Ok, if that is what passes for funny on SNL now. That show should have hung it up when Belushi, Radner, Chase, and Akroyd left. they haven’t done 2 funny shows since then.

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- burrner0
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 12:33am
  So not funny! Snl sucks, it’s like they are just fartin in the wind!
  
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- Grover_Standpipe
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 2:22am
  C’mon, that was funny! SNL has a lot of lame skits, they always did, nostalgia to the contrary, but that was funny. Anybody who says otherwise is wrongly blaming the writers for their own lost sense of humor.
  
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quiltgal
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:59pm
Thumbs up to SNL and Justin Timberlake!

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toomuchgovt
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:52pm
I keep expecting it to be funny b/c it is on the blaze WRONG again.

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MCGIRV
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:49pm
I think Timberlake knows that capitalism has been very, very good to him. If not he’s an idiot

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leftcoastslut
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:48pm
heard on the news this a.m. that they were upset because of the WIC program being affected by the government shut-down, cutting back programs. Excuse me but the WIC program encourages young mothers from becoming a wife. It not only traps the moms, but sets up a pathway for the children to become “Servents of the State”.

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bdandsl
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:36pm
SNL hasn’t been funny since the 70s.

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- dbfox
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:48pm
  I don’t think you understood the parity at all.
  
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- BenDoverTN
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 11:35pm
  I’ll bet he doesn’t even understand PARODY.
  
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pushinginto
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:18pm
It seems like SNL wanted to eulogize him by trashing capitalism and George Bush. Not very funny at all.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:35pm
  Huh?… Did you read the lyrics?
  
  ” (Chavez) believed in a civilization that existed on the surface of Mars
  But capitalism killed it off, when it was introduced to Mars”
  
  The song portrayed Chavez as a lunatic.
  
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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 3:48am
  It was a parody of Elton John doing the Princess Diana tribute and it was funny and especially if you watched the UN speech. Unless you have no sense of humor.
  
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tnman65
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 6:22pm
I don’t watch SNL but anything making fun of a vile piece of crap is OK with me.

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- ktmrider1
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 9:18pm
  yes, I havn’t watched SNL since chevy chase was on it just another tool of the left wing prapoganda machine
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 6:13pm
Sometimes SNL is funny and we need that laughter, that’s why it is so disappointing when they get it totally wrong? And you know what makes laughter so special? Because it unites us? Not all the time, but you know it when you see it, and you can feel it?

We know when it is fake? If we don’t laugh at socialism, how are you going to laugh at a carbon tax that does only one thing, tax the middle class because the rich are out of money and you have an addiction to spending without accountability?

Maybe SNL is making up for lost ground, after all, integrity is faster than the speed of light?

Nice.

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geeman
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 6:12pm
Hugo, You will be missed.BY NO ONE.Exept the incredibly stupid braindead idgits of hollyweird,the land of fruits and nuts.Sean Penn and akkkmadinajad can cry hold eachother! boo hoo

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- The Giver
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 6:36pm
  Missed by loons.
  
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scrubbos
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 6:09pm
That was hilarious? Not even close.

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Devildog7777
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:53pm
Burn in Hell Hugo Chavez

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Soulphoenix
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:49pm
This was the “Please Don’t Let Me Die” song. Good stuff.

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Devildog7777
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:48pm
Burn in He’ll Hugo Chavez

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flatbroke
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:47pm
very Sad, SNL has failed in the funny dept. i am surprised this show is still on i have not viewed it since church lady was on in early 90s, that when it started to lose its edgy funny rep.

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- flatbroke
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:58pm
  The last funny skit i viewed on YT, was adam sandberg singing about pres. Tom to the tune of Iran.. that was halarious
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:49pm
  i was always a fan of tim meadows as “ladies man”
  
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The-Monk
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:29pm
If someone from the right did that the left would call it an attack on the LBTG’s.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:38pm
  Hi MONK, LOL!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 6:13pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  I came up with a new one on that Adam Carolla story…
  
  I can think of a good commercial to promote progressives. It goes like this;
  
  “Racism…. it’s whats for breakfast.”
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 6:46pm
  Hi MONK, LOL, beats Budweiser, breakfast of champions. Of course, just about anything beats Budweiser.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 6:57pm
  Hi Guys…
  
  Legend has it Guinness was first developed as a breakfast beer…
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:48pm
  EAST, LOL, back mostly in the ’80s and even the ’90s when I was on duty and would stop by the post German canteens for a different breakfast than the mess hall, I noticed that many of the German employees had a lot more than beer for breakfast. They apparently had several brands of breakfast schnapps too.
  
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Lord_Frostwind
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:21pm
Chavez’s greatest hits, right up there with words of wisdom by Louis Farrakhan and anything that comes out of North Korea. I would almost miss the crazy beret wearing, lord of the unshowered masses if he hadn’t been trying to kill me.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:16pm
Chavez is dead, a dictator gone, why does it matter now?

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Look4DBigPicture
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:04pm
Obviously Justin didn’t get the memo. Better watch your back JT, because Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Jane Fonda, Kevin Spacey, Don King, Naomi Campbell, Michael Moore, and Danny Glover aren’t too pleased with you right now.

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cashprize
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 4:58pm
Huh!….Well do you think Chavez will get to see the keeper of the sulpher?…lol

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:29pm
  CASHPRIZE, LOL, I imagine that has already happened.
  
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- antitheism
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 6:37pm
  No, because it doesn’t exist.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 10:55pm
  ANTI: Is it fun being ” anti ?” There is so much of that ” anti ” stuff going around these days . Guess the Power of Positive thinking is no longer in fashion. These are truly becoming Dark Times….
  
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chips1
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 4:49pm
Where did Jane Curtain, Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd go?

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- flatbroke
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:44pm
  You mean the days when SNL was awesomely funny, back in the late 70s early 80s, those days are unfortunately long gone, now you have lame mediocre actors and singers hosting SNL and PC skits that offend no one.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:01pm
  CHIPS…
  Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd were both on the show last night…. along with Steve Martin, Paul Simon, and Candice Bergen.
  Aykroyd & Martin even reprised their “wild and crazy guys” routine for a sketch. It was the best episode i have seen in years.
  
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whatthecrazy
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 4:46pm
Uhh, thats just stupid……………

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 4:45pm
hi·lar·i·ous
[hi-lair-ee-uhs]
adjective

1. arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
2. boisterously merry or cheerful: a hilarious celebration.
3. merry; cheerful.

Just trying to help, Blaze, just trying to help.

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- BetsyRossFan
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:02pm
  I couldn’t have said it any better.
  
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- sta
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:15am
  You got it.
  It made me smile and that was it.
  I think someone can charge 90 minutes of “research” on a weekend night if an SNL article is written.
  
  At least this one doesn’t give a hit to the NBC website register a hit at Hulu.
  
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