Posted on 05/06/2012 9:49:30 AM PDT by Nachum
The Daily Caller has obtained a scrapped skit authored by comedian Jim Downey, intended for airing at the opening of last night’s “Saturday Night Live” on NBC.
In the skit, which was not aired, President Barack Obama addresses Americans soon after the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden — and the president makes sure to remind viewers that all credit for the raid on the terrorist leader’s compound belonged to him.
“I hope you had a safe and joyous first anniversary of his killing,” the president, portrayed by Fred Armisen, begins.
“Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be at home this year, as I had to fly to Afghanistan, to remind President Karzai that, exactly one year ago, we killed Osama bin Laden, and that the decision to do so was a gutsy one,” the president continues. “And was mine.”
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This was a funny bit they did shortly after the bin laden killing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoQz79gMlHA
Armisen has admitted that he and the writers are protective of Obama, due to their own biases
I disagree with you. I thought this week’s NL was very clever. There were some misses, as always, but all in all pretty funny
I disagree with you. I thought this week’s NL was very clever. There were some misses, as always, but all in all pretty funny
SNL is a pretty amazing show in that it has managed to stay witty and relevant for nearly four decades now with a nearly constantly changing cast. I know that many here don't watch it or like it because they feel it has a left-wing bias. Maybe so but they seem to skewer the Left as much as they do the Right. Now I've never sat and watched the show with a scorecard so maybe they do make fun of conservatives a little more but if they do, it is not that noticeable to me. I'll never forget one of the 1988 shows where they had a skit about a debate between Bush and Dukakis and they were just savaging Dukakis with no mercy at all.
Anyway, their comedy has always been hit or miss but it has always been topical and of the moment and that's what I like best about the show. Watching a SNL episode from years ago is like opening a time capsule.
If you have Netflix, you can watch every single episode from its premiere back in 1975. I've been slowly working my way through the shows in chronological order and I'm up to March of 1977. One of the skits I just saw was Jimmy Carter doing a radio talk show and walking a caller through a drug overdose - great stuff!
In the book, Live From New York: An Uncensored History Of Saturday Night Live either Jim Downey himself or someone else says about him, that he is a Republican. I'm guessing they obtained it from Downey himself.
$100 Jeopardy question: He is Robert Downey Jr.'s uncle.
I saw that skit of Jimmy Carter. Hilarious.
I have tried to watch SNL but it seems everytime I turn in, they start off bashing Republicans so I turn it off within the first 10 seconds.
I have yet to see them attack or mock dems.
No.... Obama will tee up an explosive golf ball, and chip-shot it to Osama’s forehead, killing him....
When Bush was in, they had a Bush or Cheney sketch pretty much every week at the beginning of the show. They led with Bill and Hillary sketches during the Clinton years.
I've checked out the beginning of the show this year, and it's usually about Romney or Gingrich and the other Republican candidates, not Obama or anyone in his cabinet. This week the top sketch was about "Fox and Friends" -- ooh, how daring to go after such a sacred cow!
The McCain family has a connection to the show, so they weren't this biased during the last campaign, but it's pretty blatant at least as far as the opening political sketch is concerned. I don't bother with the rest of the show. Maybe part of it is they don't want to make fun of a Black president, especially with a comedian playing him who isn't himself Black. I don't know.
Now I've never sat and watched the show with a scorecard so maybe they do make fun of conservatives a little more
If you're actually watching the whole show, if you can sit through Kristen Wiig's unfunny characters and monumentally boring routines, maybe you should do that and report back. Subjective impressions of fans don't count for that much.
Check out “political views” on his wikipedia page. Apparently Downey was willing to make fun of Obama during the last campaign and got a reputation as a conservative. He wasn’t really, but he did give the show some equal time. FWIW, Adam McKay sounds like a real “piece of work.”
I wonder how many W skits SNL scrapped? If it was any, it was because they replaced it with a more obnoxious one.
Maybe the cast and writers stunk it up as a protest?
my bad
The question is:why would they get it from him? Has he had enough? I would think leaking a script will not go over well. He was just in an interview with Seth Meyers recently, and didn't seem at odds with what was going on behind the scenes. Was it leaked as a response to the show's politics, or out of anger because a sketch they wrote was turned down at the last minute?
Fixed it.
Well; it this was a skit with GW’s name on it; we know it would not have been scrapped. . .
If he thought a funny skit he wrote was replaced by a less funny one for PC reasons, it might not have sat well with him.
Good question. He’s been at SNL for an extremely long time- I think off and on since ‘76, so he’s got to be used to scripts getting scrapped at the last minute. In the Behind The Scenes book, they start the week out with a ridiculous amount of sketches and they are cut all the way up until air. So it is weird for someone to be so upset over one being cut like this.
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