Mediaite Presents: 35 Great SNL News Spoofs

Tracey Morgan is: Brian Fellow
Does Safari Planet host Brian Fellow really belong on this list? Debatable, but he’s one of Tracey Morgan’s great characters, and his egotism reminds us of just a few cable news hosts. Speaking of a parrot: “Did you see that loudmouth bird? I don’t know what he told you, but he is not Brian Fellow.”

Chris Farley Is No “Mannequin”
Chris Farley’s “alternative” commentator Bennett Brauer is so far outside “the norm” that he doesn’t “fall in line” or “own a toothbrush” or “wipe properly.” It is “hard” not to think of “air quotes” differently after you watch this “skit.”

Arianna Huffington on “Weekend Update:”
This Weekend Update visit by a heavily accented Arianna Huffington has the newly liberal blog editrix name-dropping her way through clumsy metaphors, including comparing the war in Iraq to unprotected sex. Michaela Watkins won’t be back on SNL this year after being suddenly fired, and considering the range she shows in this clip, she will surely be missed.

Fun with the CNN Election Board
Red state? Blue state? Green smiley face? Bouncing purple Michigan? Fred Armisen zinged the contextless wonkery that some critics attributed to CNN’s high-tech 2008 Election Board. And he didn’t even through holographic will.i.am into the mix…

Fred Armisen Does Joy Behar
Basically, the only joke in this skit is Fred Armisen in a red wig saying “so what? Who cares?” in a heavy Noo Yawk accent, but so what? Who cares? It’s great. Even real-life Joy Behar approves .



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