Worst Portrayal of a U.S. President by an SNL Castmember

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.

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

that said "charles rocket - reagan" pretty obviously must suck

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!

they did a Lincoln at Ford's theater skit with Piscopo as Lincoln

and Russell Brand played George Washington in a skit last year. I think Pelosi and Boehner time-traveled back to his era.

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.

http://thegoodjokes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/1277488480570-dumpfm-haydiroket-deal1.gif

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

Kevin Nealon did Biden back in the 90s, during a sketch where clarence thomas was getting confirmed

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.

Ferrell's Dubya eventually grew on me, or he just figured out how to make it work.

Again, I think Hammond's Clinton was/is brilliant. I remember that one Weekend Update appearance in 2008: "Thank you, Duffy."

Hammond's Clinton was the best-- "I am bulletproof"

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???

Hammond's Clinton was great!

Hammond and Hartman were both excellent as Clinton, but then dude must be the funnest guy to imitate

actually, i do remember hammond's clinton fondly -- forgot about that.

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

"strategery" still makes me laugh

'you know who i'm talking about: iraq...iran...and one of the koreas.'

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Ferrell's dubya was about capturing the spirit of dubya, not necessarily creating an accurate rendering of dubya

I mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkqrI3IibYI

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).