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SNL Reworks O‘Reilly’s Super Bowl Interview With Obama

I have a wide toleration for attempts a humor (a difficult enterprise) and try to grade for effort even when the material falls short. So the opening the most recent Saturday Night Live puts my comedic tolerance to the test. Clearly The Blaze is not shy about posting SNL segments that are not so favorable to conservatives and/or Glenn.  So the fact of their attempting to tweak Bill O’Reilly is not the issue.  It’s trying to find the exact point where it comes off the rails.  I’m gonna say early.  The first half of the sketch is precedented on the idea that O’Reilly is often wildly wrong on simple facts.  Liberals can certainly disagree with his opinions, but it is really hard to say that O’Reilly comes to interviews unprepared.  So the suspension of disbelief process fails.


(via Mediaite)

So the jabs at some O’Reilly mannerisms are fair game but the overall impersonation falls way flat.  And two years into the Obama era, the Fred Armisen version of the President is still “uneven” to many.  All the more a mystery since one SNL cast member, Jay Pharoah, does a much better Obama:

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  • Mister_Bill
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:27am

    Have you ever listened to one of Obama’s new conferences? By the time he has answered the question either I have forgotten what the question was or no longer care. SNL should make a joke about that, I would find that funny. They were close this time but their attitude about Fox showed through.

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  • Okieflyover
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:16am

    @A Doctors labor……..

    People understand that O‘Reilly and Hannity don’t let people just filibuster. It’s called a conversation

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  • Sue Dohnim
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:45am

    Scrubbed SNL skit with Soros, Frank and Pelosi.. too close to the truth..

    http://www.archive.org/details/PulledSnlBankBailoutSkit

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:29am

    Jay Pharoah proves that Black people really can monitor themselves. Pharoah’s got big ones. The SNL skit was damn funny. We‘ll never take the school teacher out of Bill O’Reilly .

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  • blazebird
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:27am

    EBAY and Obama.

    Obama toilet paper.
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270703915824&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

    Time Magazine Cover
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  • blazebird
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:20am

    The real interview was lame also.

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  • Gabby Johnson
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:10am

    That was pretty weak for SNL.

    They could do so much better.

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  • ItsallaboutJesus
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:01am

    That was a waste of my time. I knew there was a reason why I don’t watch SNL. Not funny at all!

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  • Alabama Rick
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:58am

    When SNL portrays Fox with liberals they always portray Fox as not having a clue. It’s just another way the libs try to discredit Fox but they only discredit themselves. I never watch SNL anymore.

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  • GIDEON612
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:48am

    I believe that most of you are missing an important point here. Yes, Bill interrupts people and knocks them back in line as a judge should/would do. ” That was a yes or no question. ” Not an essay question!
    But that is not my point here.
    In this it shows that in times of trouble or when things are not going his way the president is a bumbling, rambling, frightened child.
    Deer in the headlights.
    That part was spot on.

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  • rps57x
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:29am

    All I could take was 2 minutes worth

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    • Cool inside the Fyre
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 5:21pm

      You beat me 20 sec all I needed to see.Never watch it never will. If we could harness the energy produced by John Belushi spinning in his grave (because of what SNL has become) we wouldn’t need green E EVER.
      Saturday Night Lies Unfunny TV since 1978/ D O A.

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  • Gabby in Florida
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 5:30am

    The hollywood freaks run around and talk about no more bullying but yet on a daily basis they bully others yes this type of comedic crap is called bullying? NBC and other liberal channels show this crap day in and day out it promotes hate and making fun of others. I don‘t watch it I don’t like it and I don’t think its good for the morals or morale of America. What they think is funny is trash and it promotes hate. George Carlin used to get his point across by making fun of situations not on the back of other people. IF your so desperate to get a laugh from poking fun at others its no wonder other countries want to take us out we have no class or morals. IF you thought that was funny I feel sorry for you. Its pathetic. What is even more pathetic is the news will play this crap all week over and over again?? They don‘t seem to understand if they don’t give this attention it will go away. Stop making jokes off other people go back and find out what real comedy was like George Burns and REd Skeleton. Can America sink any lower.

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  • ozzie
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:32am

    The fact that they are still using the horrible Fred impression is not because Jay can’t do it- it’s because they are trying to protect Obama from negative criticism no matter the quality impression.

    Jay does the impression with a “black” intonation. They don‘t want to attribute that quality to Obama so they don’t use it because they think that Americans are so dumb and racist that they will realize Obama is a black man.

    So they’d rather have a white guy in darkened make up (tell me how that is not racist) play the role because he comes off (in voice) as a white guy and it plays better to represent Obama in their view.

    Liberals are sick in the head in that they’d rather play away from the actual race of the guy so that [in their view] they don’t demean him. Why else would they use such a bad impersonator?

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    • BelowAverageJoe
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 11:30am

      Try and name another President or any major political figure that SNL has played as straight to his perceived character as Obama. It’s a real shame because it could have been a really funny character.

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  • semidisk
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:25am

    speaking as a proud viewer of “liberal” humor like The Daily Show, this – and essentially all political sketches on SNL – are hideously bad.

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    • brliantedj
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 5:10am

      What happened to the prime time players. I keep on the DVR thing but these get deleted without watching. I still keep hoping, ready to turn over a time slot. After Tonight I I’m pretty sure I HAVE!!!

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  • Callie369
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:51am

    I used to like O”Reilly but for the past 2 years I haven’t been able to watch him. My blood-pressure goes up and I get sick of his pandering to Dumbama. And he has bragged about that worthless show ever since the butt-kissing interview! He is as much a narssisistic person as Dumbama. I think it‘s time for O’Reilly to retire and Laura Ingraham to take over “The Factor!!!!”

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    • GreenUglyOne
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:05pm

      When Laura Ingraham sits in for him, I don’t turn it off.

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  • Deutscher
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:09am

    If they really wanted to get at O’reilly, they should have gone after his proof of god: that there is a tide, or why Mars has no moon.

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  • dirtypolitics
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:41am

    SNL impersonation of both Oreily and Obama is flat.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:30am

    The SNL skit was just plain dumb. It seems that SNL is scrapping the bottom of the barrel, and it’s time that this show is replaced with something that is relevant.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:16am

    Trying to make Obama look smarter than he is.

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  • scout n ambush
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:15am

    Conservatives need a show like SNL but it‘s easier just to let liberal’s show how dumb they are without trying to find someone to play them in a skit.

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  • Lana40
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:09am

    I don’t care who you are, that was funny. :)

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  • questioningwithboldness
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:08am

    do not think this guy fred armisen is soo good. I agree he falls flat. Would love to see the first lady look alike and I mean a real comedy routine not politically correct. They dont do her because they are liberal and they did not have a real funny skit with this oreilly. The guy was good but the writing was stupid. Cant wait until oreilly has it on his show. Perhaps it would have been funnier with oreilly and the body language woman trying to make sense of the interview. SNL are you listening, you could do so much from this interview segment than what you did. Not funny at all.

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  • HappyStretchedThin
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:06am

    Meh. Starts attempting pastiche, falls into attack parody. Whaddaya expect.
    I got a lot more chuckles from Coulter’s CPAC address. With her, sarcasm jumps UP to a much higher form of humor.

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  • Copenloaf
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:06am

    Funny Stuff

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  • macombman
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:57am

    Here’s the funniest rendition:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aynrplQ9gNA

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