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‘Saturday Night Live’ Kicks Off With ‘Either the 7th or 8th GOP Debate’

Saturday Night Live Kicks Off With Either the 7th or 8th GOP DebateIn case you missed the season opener of “Saturday Night Live,” here’s a quick recap: The cast took on “either the 7th or 8th GOP Debate” with a sketch featuring Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and “six other people who’ll never be president by showed up anyway.”

Saturday Night Live Kicks Off With Either the 7th or 8th GOP DebateBill Hader, as Fox News’ Shepard Smith, asked host Alec Baldwin’s Perry whether he could “speak for 10 seconds without alienating his base.” Perry rattled off a few talking points before slipping and saying all 10-year-old girls should be vaccinated for HPV “so they can enter into meaningful sexual relationships.”

Jason Sudeikis, as Mitt Romney, said he’s “the perfect candidate in comparison to the other candidates,” including having a normal-sized head compared to Newt Gingrich and being “the Fonz” compared to Ron Paul. Though compared to Jon Huntsman, he said, it gets “tricky”: “We’re both Mormon and have similar haircuts.” Cue Taran Killan devolving into an outrageous Huntsman impression, inspired by the former ambassador’s two years in China.

Rounding out the rest of the skit were Keenan Thompsan as Herman Cain (“pizza will come” to the entire country), Andy Samberg as Rick Santorum and Kristen Wiig as Michele Bachmann with her closing line of “Fences…Jesus…papilloma…eyeballs.”

Watch the clip below, via NBC:

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  • J_A_M_E_S
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:35am

    C’mon folks. This is just a comedy show. We are all free to turn it off. SNL is the liberal perspective on most things, but to their credit, they have satirized Obama too.

    Oh, by the way, it DOES feel like we are up to the 7th or 8th debate, and I personally don’t like the idea that we are not using them properly. The process should provide an equal exposure to all the candidates, and not be the Mitt and Rick show. The debates should be about information on the candidates. Somebody, (the media, the Republican Establishment), wants to use these debates to whittle the field without a vote. This is the opposite of how this should work. It is as if we are not being trusted to make our own decisions about who we want as a nominee. Let US decide.

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    • Time Rebel
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:57am

      James, all very good points. I was leaning for Rick Perry, but now I’m leaning more towards Herman Cain as my man. (You shoud have heard Cain laughing over the SNL depiction of his speech!). We should ALL be very verbal in our demand for equal time for all of the candidates. How else are we going to get to know them so WE can make an informed decision?!

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    • whatisay
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:57am

      Have they satirized Moochelle, the most mockable first lady in American history? I STILL remember John Lithgow, in a red dress, posing as Nancy Reagan.

      NBC is free to be a propaganda organ for Obama, but NOT to pipeline my tax dollars in NBC’s backdoor to subsidize their FAIL via special deals to GE.

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    • hauschild
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:01am

      I hate when liberals prove a point, but these debates are asinine. They‘re exactly why Palin didn’t enter the race. They serve no purpose other than as fodder for the loony leftists.

      For example, we already knew Romney is a company man like McCain and governs by the popular sentiment of the day. We don’t need necessarily need debates to prove this point – it’s true. We already Newt is much “smarter” than any common conservative. We already knew Paul is a curmudgeon.

      I tell ya, I hate it when our side allows themselves to be put thru hoops and star in the dog-n-pony shows for leftists. I’ll stand by my hypothesis that too many conservatives remain asleep at the switch, so it is going to take at least another election cycle before we’re all on the same page; which is really unfortunate.

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    • mwhaley
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 2:31pm

      @ WHATISAY
      They are not going to touch Obama, or Obama’s old lady. Berry Capone Obama will use Chicago persuasion to keep these field rats in check.

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    • ConservativeCharlie
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 2:54pm

      There is always a hint of Truth in comedy, but not much truth to be found here. Other then the fact that the mainstream Media is trying to set us up to have a two man race for the nomination.

      You should watch this video, A Memo to the Media, conserning Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s17Jh2tc04A

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    • So
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:31pm

      SNL was funny YEARS ago.

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    • uncleherbert
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:11pm

      I will go with Herman also. Check newt out with this ad. ” We don’t always see eye to eye, do we Newt?” Pelosi says in the ad.

      “No, but we do agree our country must take action to address climate change,” Gingrich responds.”

      Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/12/gingrich-feels-heat-global-warming-ad-pelosi/#ixzz1Z4YfeX1n

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:01pm

      J_A_M_E_S:
      I used to love SNL, but it has turned into an ATTACK show and it just isn’t funny anymore. MOST of the time, it IS attacking the right, even though it SOMETIMES attacks the left, or makes fun of, whichever way your mind thinks. I happen to think that SNL, like most mainstream TV shows, is trying their best to change the views of their viewers. I just wish NBC would cancel it, kill it, get rid of this show, once and for all. IT IS SO EMBARRASSING to see this kind of overkill rhetoric anymore. We see and hear enough of it in the media.

      I really like Ron Paul. I think he was what the forefathers had in mind, BUT, more and more I am thinking that we cannot go to the extreme in anything, such as Obama has done. And so, I think Ron Paul’s idea of destroying the Fed and closing our borders immediately, is not a very good thing FOR AMERICANS. We cannot lock ourselves out as if we were the East Germans and the Berlin Wall. So, I am leaning more towards Herman Cain and his 9-9-9 program, which seems like it would actually work. Mr. Cain seems to KNOW exactly what he would do with an already mapped out plan. The other candidates want to imprison us all.

      Plus, I think what clinched it for me was that Herman Cain was the ONLY candidate that did NOT ATTACK his fellow conservatives. THIS SHOWS HONOR AND INTEGRITY, something we haven’t seen in a political candidate in a LONG time. He would make a good President.

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    • ltb
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 11:02am

      When I was 14 I had Liberal ideas and thought Saturday Night Live was funny… then I grew up.

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  • jessieH
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:33am

    It would have been funny if they had put in a few jokes. All I heard was liberal media crap. I can get that on almost every news channel.

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:51pm

      ron paul was funny, rest NOT funny

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    • red1
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 5:18pm

      I thought Kristen Wiig did a good impression of Michele Bachman. The rest weren’t that good. Even though SNL has always leaned to the left, I have always thought that they have done the best political satire. Their portrayal of Herman Cain was clearly racist however.

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:04pm

      Once again,
      I used to love SNL, but it has turned into an ATTACK show and it just isn’t funny anymore. MOST of the time, it IS attacking the right, even though it SOMETIMES attacks the left, or makes fun of, whichever way your mind thinks. I happen to think that SNL, like most mainstream TV shows, is trying their best to change the views of their viewers. I just wish NBC would cancel it, kill it, get rid of this show, once and for all. IT IS SO EMBARRASSING to see this kind of overkill rhetoric anymore. We see and hear enough of it in the media.

      I really did like Ron Paul. I think he was what the forefathers had in mind, BUT, more and more I am thinking that we cannot go to the extreme in anything, such as Obama has done. And so, I think Ron Paul’s idea of destroying the Fed and closing our borders immediately, is not a very good thing FOR AMERICANS. We cannot lock ourselves out as if we were the East Germans and the Berlin Wall. So, I am leaning more towards Herman Cain and his 9-9-9 program, which seems like it would actually work. Mr. Cain seems to KNOW exactly what he would do with an already mapped out plan. The other candidates want to imprison us all.

      Plus, I think what clinched it for me was that Herman Cain was the ONLY candidate that did NOT ATTACK his fellow conservatives. THIS SHOWS HONOR AND INTEGRITY, something we haven’t seen in a political candidate in a LONG time. He would make a good President.

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  • drago
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:28am

    Never watched this crap, and never will, and surely wont watch this video.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:28am

    I was hoping for it to be funny; it wasn’t. And that band they had on…RADIO HEAD….sucked!

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  • hi
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:21am

    Funny!

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  • Hoosier
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:16am

    I like funny. This was ok if I didn‘t know SNL was sniffing up Obama’s crack and inhaling.

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  • PROUD SOB
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:15am

    Alec BAldwin.. Please stay away from Massapequa you moron SNL sux

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  • beaubird
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:13am

    Anything with alec baldwin is doomed to start with!!!!!!!

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    • Jimbo Wales
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 2:53pm

      BS, Alec Baldwin is funny. 30 Rock is definitely his best role recently, though.

      Disagree with his politics all you want, but that doesn’t make him a bad comedian.

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 7:44am

      You mean Manbearpig Jr., don’t you?

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  • Liberalismsamentaldisorder
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:11am

    saturday night live ceased to be funny when it turned into saturday night liberal. as laura says, just shut up and sing.

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    • Nlitend1
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:37am

      When did this show ‘turn’ liberal? It has always been political…was it conservative in the 70‘s and 80’s?

      Anyone remember ‘mastermind’ Reagan? Link:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skQuhoG7fFM

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    • davuf
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:11pm

      Are you kidding me? This bit is really funny. It is so over the top it’s funny. They are portraying him as more powerful and intelligent than people think. Even if he is being portrayed as evil its not th normal republican’s are stupid line.

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  • Look4DBigPicture
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:07am

    Herman Cain said … “America needs to get a sense of humor.” SNL has always taken hot political news topics and turned them into humorous parodies. This was entertaining and funny … maybe not as funny as Johnson‘s ’dog and shovel ready jobs’ comment, but it was funny. Anyone who takes offense is behaving like a whiny victim … a role already mastered by liberals.

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    • Liberalismsamentaldisorder
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:13am

      political humor is a fair topic, when it comes from only one side 99% of the time, you must expect to turn off a large audience.

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    • 19RANDY59
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:15am

      I agree, take it for what it is, but be mindful of their agenda. Don‘t be a fool and think they don’ have one.

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  • Mr.Truth
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:00am

    Sorry everybody but that was too damn funny hahaha!!

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  • dcart888
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:57am

    Brian Saks needs to do skit of Obama telling CBC to stop whinning and crying.. LOL who would play Rep Maxine Waters (Socialist Democrat)? Then have Allen West come out and speak truth to the pathetic CBC asking hard questions to our community organizer in chief and have Obama say I I I I I I I I I I I am a socialist I love class warfare and playing the race card

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  • TomFerrari
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:51am

    tee HEE hee, very funny

    snl used to be good, and used to be funny… many, many, MANY moons ago.

    Now, they just throw crap at their audience and expect people to watch.
    Sitting on their laurels, as it were.
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    Jane Curtain, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner – those people were FUNNY !
    “Landshark”
    “Mrs. Loopner” / “Todd”
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    Not sure if it was/is the writing or the so-called comedians (one and the same?).
    Sure has hit bottom, though.
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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:13am

      & Mr Bill

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    • Look4DBigPicture
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:17am

      Jane Curtain, Bill Murray, & Gilda Radner were funny, because (1) we were young and unsophisticated, therefore not so uptight about everything, and (2) they introduced a type of humor we had never seen on TV before. Times have changed but a lot of young people find the current skits funny. I’ve outgrown SNL, but I still enjoy watching the political satire … on YouTube the next day. (lol)

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    • 19RANDY59
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:21am

      Meet the knew Boss
      same as the old Boss
      The original cast were just as big liberal idiots as the new cast and crew. We were just young and dumb then also. We all just laughed because it was cool. Some of it was?is funny, some not.

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  • KingDawg
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:46am

    the skit was about as stupid and poor humor as Obamas jokes…..this just adds fuel to the fire of division in the country….way to go SNL…..

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    • 19RANDY59
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:08am

      The Left wants division, to bring the top down. They just need the timing to be right, to make sure they’re in control of the top.

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  • Steelhead
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:43am

    and if Palin could debate she would be running already

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:55am

      Read, “The Art of War”
      “LYING IN WAIT” is a significant strategy.
      I’m not saying she is gonna run, but, if she does she will have the advantage of having waited.
      She will know what all the “gotchas” are, what the issues are, what the acceptable answers / stances are (on those issues), how the media will attack, and, she will have avoided months and months of personal attacks. PLUS, she will be able to contrast herself against other candidates who already have one or more gaffes under their belt.
      I say she is playing it smart.
      No need to announce until you have to do so, when you know the entire msm/lsm is going to be out after you from day one.
      She has more experience being attacked than any other candidate, that is for certain !
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    • Little Johnny
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:14am

      Having Palin run and get the nomination would be AWESOME. Even more so than having Perry get it (which would work fairly well), Palin getting it would mark the pinnacle and the end of the far right’s takeover of the Republican Party. The establishment Republicans wouldn’t let it happen again, because Obama would skate easily into a second term. Hand-wringing and re-grouping in conservative-land after that.. Bring it on.

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    • joan k
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:22pm

      Ronald Reagan didn’t enter the race until November the year before his election. Waiting maybe to her advantage.

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  • Jaycubtheson
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:42am

    no

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:40am

    I thought that Alec Baldwin promised to leave the country if Bush was elected. Why is he still here subjecting us to his idiocy? Keep your promise Alec you big mouthed bloated piece of slime.

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    • 19RANDY59
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:12am

      The slime doesn‘t leave for the same reason all the left doesn’t. They would be shot or imprisoned by the governments that they support.

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  • Little Johnny
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:33am

    Great stuff. SNL for the win.

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    • gotta light
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:46am

      At least they don’t have a cast member who is almost a splitting double for a 2012 candidate, i.e., like in 2008 with Sarah Palin and the skank Tina Fay. They were able to fool a lot of older folks into thinking that the Tina Fay’s over exaggerated portrayal of her Sarah Palin character was actually the REAL Sarah Palin. Think about how many Sunday Morning News Shows like re-aired them the day after and how many were actually fooled into thinking it was actually Sarah. NOT THIS TIME TINA FEY. NOT THIS TIME SNL. We know your M.O.

      Hey bud gotta light?

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    • Bluegill
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:48am

      SNL does appeal to the simplistic types that voted for Yes We Can

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    • Ballot_Box_Revolution
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:01am

      I didn’t find the skit very funny though. SNL is usually good at getting impersonators that know how to bring out personality, and mannerisms of the people they are impersonating. All this skit had was the looks, and the Bachman voice. Although the Santorum guy was pretty funny and accurate with his mannerisms.

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  • sissykatz
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:32am

    I can’t believe anyone watches SNL. It really used to be funny and I loved it. I haven’t watched it
    except when Betty White was on there and I didn’t even think that was funny. Even Jon Stewart
    is funny sometimes. SNL is NEVER funny.

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    • gotta light
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:47am

      Wait until the SNL viewers get their GED’s. They will move on….

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  • ares338
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:29am

    Like others I stopped watching SNL many years ago. They have nothing to say anymore.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:01am

      I did see a very interesting SNL clip which was on Youtube after or around the 2008 elections. It was the one where the old house with Madame Pelosi was speaking, George Bush, Barney Farnk and George Soros. They had the the Pelosi house taking all the credit while George was saying “Hey wait a minute…didn’t I have that idea while Pelosi just walked all over him…which was true. Barney Frank got up there and slobbered and spit and espoused his bull. Then Pelosi bows to George Soros alluding to him as master and wondering where all the money went ane Soros gives this wicked grin and says..“I got it all” and laughing madly. It was actuallly right on the money..but the libs had it pulled from Youtube. They will not be mocked.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:07am

      Ashes, you can find it still on the internet, just not on youtube. That was a singularly funny and biting episode. I haven’t seen the like since. Maybe the writers got spanked hard for getting too close to the truth, so now they give us what we saw last night, funny at times and mostly at the Republicans’ expense, and NOTHING that will shine a light on, let alone attack, the basic policies of the dems.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:24am

      Here‘s a link to the best skit they have done for twenty years or more but they don’t want anyone to see.

      http://www.savethisnation.org/apps/videos/videos/view/2394707-mortgage-crisis-skit-pulled-from-snl

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:31pm

      @ ISLESFORDIAN Thank you very much .

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    • davuf
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:24pm

      Wow, that was great. It looks like the writers accidently found news on their own instead fo being fed the message. Great stuff.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 2:35pm

      This skit, from the Oct 5, 2008 show, was written by their longest serving writer, Jim Downing. He’s been on and off SNL since the days of Belushi and Ackroyd. He’s fairly sharp, but still liberal, registered democrat, Obama supporter (at least originally). But because he is the most open to poking fun at the dems too he gets a reputation for being conservative.

      This skit is still very remarkable, not just because it pokes fun at Democrats, that has happened before, but because it takes a complex and easily misunderstood or mischaracterized issue and makes it comprehensible through a very funny and sharp script. Glenn Beck couldn’t have written a better funier and more imformative bit in as little time as it took. It is razor sharp without seeming pendantic or preachy.

      I would love to know the history behind it, how it came to be, what motivated it, and what was Downing’s reaction to NBC trying to erase all memory of it.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 2:41pm

      James Downey, not Downing.

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    • GollygeeMrwilson
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 10:26am

      Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

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  • Joisey
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:29am

    Very little humor there, crowded out by the nastiness and desire to demean Republicans.

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:25am

    Some good jokes, some just lame charicatures. It would be more funny if they understood the political issues at all.

    But it also points out their utter hypocrisy because they never treat Obama anything close to this. I can’t remember a single instance in which they have made fun of him directly rather than of the situation he is in.

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    • LiberalMarine
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:28am

      They actually have done some bits making fun of Obama, the fact that he became out of touch and different from campaign Obama.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:57am

      Yes, very gentle jibes. Nothing mocking him like they did with all other Republican Presidents. The jokes are out there, but they never touch them.

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  • RRFlyer
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:19am

    I quit watching SNL years ago and won’t start now even for a short clip

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  • marthasusan40
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:15am

    It was very funny. can not deny it….it was funny….hate that I laughed so hard…I want GBTV to come up with conservative SNL…..come on Brian Sack…..do it…………

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  • YepImaConservative
    Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:06am

    If I were Alec Baldwin… I wouldn‘t be spoofing anyone in relation to what is or isn’t good for little girls…

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