I've never seen Piscopo's Reagan but i mean, there's no way it can be good right?
― Hungry4Ass, Monday, 17 September 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
To keep the list snappy, I've avoided guest appearances by non-cast members (Robin Williams as Reagan), presidents before they assumed office (Jim Downey's 1980 impression of George H. W. Bush) or after (Darrell Hammond's post-term Jimmy Carter appearances.)
wait, then why are JFK and FDR on here?
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 17 September 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
do you that they have to be impersonated as if they were in office, even if it was decades after the fact?
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 17 September 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
i should stop being annoyed now that they've finally got someone else doing it, but i gotta vote for Armisen
― some dude, Monday, 17 September 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
like oh hi I'm current President Roosevelt giving a fireside chat, rather than oh hi I'm Jimmy Carter building your house
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 17 September 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
Armison was bad but Obama is difficult to mock. Parnell was totally forgettable as Bush when that dude was comedy gold for Stewart/Colbert etc.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 17 September 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
wow - i just assumed they did the same thing post-ferrell, had no idea they were flailing about that much for a dubya replacement. i remembered forte vaguely in a 'o i guess that's who's doing dubya now', i saw very very little of snl post-ferrell pre-hulu. will avoid parnell's dubya as i love that guy so much and don't want anything to lower my opinion of him. i'm guessing the piscopo reagan was rich little adequate, the only piscopo my memory hazily recalls as being remotely funny were his tom snyder and his sinatra (which yielded this - http://wfmu.org/LCD/22/wild_pitches.html).
― balls, Monday, 17 September 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, September 16, 2012 7:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
had to draw the line somewhere. *shrugs*
― pplains, Monday, 17 September 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
Piscopo's Reagan was by the book, but was also a little crazy.
http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/141547494-episode-4-pictured-joe-piscopo-as-ronald-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=Z0zsWpN2ukUDXYqF4boPJbUV9lV3DhZ7DPqsHkpu16WG%2B6onGN%2BYnjkcew49Kifu
― pplains, Monday, 17 September 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
that piscopo pitch story is great
― Hungry4Ass, Monday, 17 September 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
McKean later said that in hindsight he felt the only reasons he was asked to join the show was so he could play parents and Clinton.
― Instagrams of Lily on My Facebook Wall (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 September 2012 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
the problem with this poll is that "worst" requires investigation i'm not willing to make. actually, that's half true - i kind of do want to watch all the little 42m blurps of SNL on Netflix - but not like, right now
― da croupier, Monday, 17 September 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
that said "charles rocket - reagan" pretty obviously must suck
― da croupier, Monday, 17 September 2012 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
also have they REALLY never done a "George Washington while in office" or a "President Lincoln" sketch? Kind of impressed if they've churned out sketches for this long without getting into that kind of historical humor. Ben Stiller got there in season one!
― da croupier, Monday, 17 September 2012 12:09 (eleven years ago) link
they did a Lincoln at Ford's theater skit with Piscopo as Lincoln
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 17 September 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
and Russell Brand played George Washington in a skit last year. I think Pelosi and Boehner time-traveled back to his era.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 17 September 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
I checked out those two pages at the beginning, and no president past Teddy was listed. I thought it sounded strange too, but there you go.
― pplains, Monday, 17 September 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://thegoodjokes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/1277488480570-dumpfm-haydiroket-deal1.gif
― pplains, Monday, 17 September 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
The New Republic on exactly what we've been talking about here: the limitations of accuracy when working up a political impression. (I think Pharoah's off to a better start than the writer does, though. I got more out of him on Saturday than just mimicry--the extra layer was Obama's "forget about me for a second, can you believe this?" bemusement, which in a way sums up the context of his entire presidency.)
http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/107338/the-tedious-accuracy-jay-pharoah%E2%80%99s-obama-impersonation
― clemenza, Monday, 17 September 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Kevin Nealon did Biden back in the 90s, during a sketch where clarence thomas was getting confirmed
― Trad., Arrrgh (stevie), Monday, 17 September 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
hard to believe there's only been one nixon in all these years, but all of aykroyd's performances were wonderful -- even his carter, which wasn't really carter-ish at all. favorite one was hartman's reagan, who was actually kind of genuinely menacing.
hammond did a funny gore, but his other impressions were usually boring as shit.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 September 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
Ferrell's Dubya eventually grew on me, or he just figured out how to make it work.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 September 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
Again, I think Hammond's Clinton was/is brilliant. I remember that one Weekend Update appearance in 2008: "Thank you, Duffy."
― clemenza, Monday, 17 September 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
Hammond's Clinton was the best-- "I am bulletproof"
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 17 September 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
I read some comics book as a youngster that said CHase wore a can on his head during his Ford depiction to equate Ford with Happy Hooligan ––––– is this fucking true???
― pet carrier (Crabbits), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
Hammond's Clinton was great!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
Hammond and Hartman were both excellent as Clinton, but then dude must be the funnest guy to imitate
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 04:59 (eleven years ago) link
actually, i do remember hammond's clinton fondly -- forgot about that.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
Hammond's Clinton was amazing. totally don't get what people have against Ferrell's Dubya. granted he's no James Brolin but he was still funny
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
"strategery" still makes me laugh
'you know who i'm talking about: iraq...iran...and one of the koreas.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 5 November 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Ferrell's dubya was about capturing the spirit of dubya, not necessarily creating an accurate rendering of dubya
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
I meanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkqrI3IibYI
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
Comedy's as subjective as it gets, but the votes for Ferrell-Bush, Ackroyd-Nixon, Chase-Ford, Hammond-Clinton, and Ackroyd-Carter do baffle me. I guess some of them are penalized just by virtue of being remembered (as opposed to many of the ones that got zero).
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link