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Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Appears On Saturday Night Live’s ‘What Up With That’

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Thank goodness! I thought that, given that SNL’s Cee-Lo Green sketch and “What Up With That” have basically the same sensibility and are both helmed by Kenan Thompson, we might not see it for a while. It’s so nice to be proved wrong! This week’s guest were Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac fame, Kate Upton (looking beautiful and not at all like the alien featured on the Sports Illustrated cover), and Bill O’Reilly.

Bill O’Reilly? Bill O’Reilly! He attempted to drop some knowledge about Abraham Lincoln (in order to promote his new book Killing Lincoln), but it wasn’t long before Jason Sudeikis leaped back into the frame, doing the Running Man and totally derailing the discussion, which O’Reilly handled with as much good humor as one can have under the circumstances.

See him contend with all the madness in the clip below via NBC:

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  • Anonymous

    Hey Norbit Bill O’Reilly is on the Liberal Media Matters Saturday Night Live show! Whats going on?

  • Anonymous

    More dancing Teddy Roosevelt, please!  Bully!

  • Anonymous

    I swear, I always love their last dancing guest, it is usually the most random celebrity in the world.  I think they just click the random article on Wikipedia.  I mean, Geoffrey Canada?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/NNLTZDRX372UMZJI72PSKEQFSU Khime Barnes

    Guys Check this out! http://ow.ly/99HTY

  • Anonymous

    Kate Upton, WOW!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    They have Al Sharpton hosting now?  

  • Anonymous

    Might not really be your arena as a writer if you don’t know Bill Hader from Lindsey Buckingham.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    I love BillO’s “why the hell am I here?” expression through the whole bit. Say what you will about his “news” work, he’s pretty good at comedy. He’s always a great sparring partner for Letterman.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks awesome link! There’s nothing deceiving our suspicious about that…nope not one thing!

  • DoNotMindMe

    Keith Olbermann has got to be SO jealous right now. 

  • Anonymous

     I agree, Bill is aces when he is outside of his Fox propaganda machine.  He is absolutely one of the most entertaining guests when he goes on other shows.

  • Anonymous

    You hope at least, rite?

  • Anonymous

    I think I like Al Gore’s What Up With That the best! 
    http://www.hulu.com/watch/110316/saturday-night-live-what-up-with-that-al-gore

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/2YU6YMCIRTUA4NFQHTRVYBJY7I Kei

    dear god….it’s 3 mins in and I wanted to shut it off. SNL hasn’t been Funny since 2004 (in my opinion) –  You’ve got a ONCE In a Lifetime chance to get Bill O’Reilly and you put him that skit? – what a waste of Kate Upton.   FunnyOrDie.com eats their lunch – even “Mad TV” wouldn’t let that skit air. I’m embarrassed for the people on Fox News that will have to “pretend” it was “funny” when they talk about it on air. 

    There’s is NOTHING up with that.  What’s next? a skit where Alec Baldwin & Andrew Breitbart go fishing and talk about pizza toppings?  I long for the day when someone has enough sense to put something of substance on TV to finally end SNL. People in other countries who see these clips on YouTube must scratch their heads and wonder “What’s Up with that”?

  • http://gamewhen.com/ Michael T

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  • Hout Bosques

    Wow is right – they … that is, she … are … that is, is … spectacular. It’s all downhill for her from here on, baby! 

    (Oh – that’s actually true, isn’t it? Next, she passes out of the God-dess stage; guest-flashes Letterman; gets caught having done a yuteful, pardon my French, diffusion, on Penthouse that’d make the Virginia legislature blush; gets cast as a wiggle-on in the latest Will Ferrell spoof; flies to Cannes for the Film Festival only to get outed by Murdoch’s Sun in an exposee featuring grainy pictures implying her showing up as a Lady Gaga impersonator at a Berlusconi bunga bunga hoedown on a private island off the Côte d’Azur; gets caught on video doing the horizontal mambo in a cab with some C-list girl-toy band drummer, fresh trampstamp-side up; starts a new gig celeb pitching Abshakers on the HSN; endorses “Rick Romney” for president while on a Santorum Sweater Girl promo; confesses her favorite lyrics are the opening lines to Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black; gets caught by the paparazzi driving up to the side gate of the Betty Ford Center claiming she & her friend got “lost looking for the turn-off to Napa Valley”; marries & divorces the latest country music bad boy all within the same fortnight of living dangerously; campaigns for her Uncle Fred; gets trashed in a NYT feature analysing the GOP’s downfall as tracking to the “Bimbo Factor”; does a turn on the Wingnut Welfare Celeb Circuit; closes out the year in pre-promotion of a porn parody, Behind the Red Door.)

  • Anonymous

    LIBERAL MEDIA TRY MAKE FOOL OF BILL!  FROTH ANGRY!  ARGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHG!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002381628919 Rusty Hill

    Uh…none of you know that O’Reilly’s lines were scripted? Amazing.

  • Anonymous

    Never dance.

  • Anonymous

    No. You only think his sideways glances were at the cue cards. He was in reality sneaking a peek down the cleavage next to him.

  • Anonymous

    And his cooperation is appreciated

  • Anonymous

    You realize, of course, that it’s never really Lindsey Buckingham, but SNL regular Bill Hader playing Lindsey Buckingham.

  • Anonymous

    There were a lot of guests and cameos on tonight’s show and Billo was the only one who was trying to plug something as usual.  Pathetic.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     All proceeds from “Killing Lincoln” are donated to charity.

    I guess they didn’t cover that On Media Matters/msnbc, so there’s no way you would have known.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    This coming on the heels of O’Reilly’s ingratiating claim about the President’s “brilliance”, must give one pause. But brilliant Bill?

    Brilliant?

    He’s a sensational orator, in the Preacher mode of Evangelical churches, but
    brilliant?
    The teleprompter speeches are well-prepared and he delivers them with passion
    (whether genuine or contrived), but brilliant?
    I’ve seen nothing of his brilliance.

    I’ve seen his calculated deception, his crony-capitalism, his clandestine
    governance.
    I’ve seen a petulant, self-righteous ideologue who bristle at the very thought
    his policies are wrong.
    I haven’t seen brilliant.

    In fact, any time he’s had to venture beyond his prepared narrative, either
    when the prompter went down, or in those rare moments he received
    extemporaneous questions, he’s shown himself quite inept in providing
    reasonable responses.

    Barack Obama is still somewhat of an enigma to many as to his true beliefs and
    worldviews, but however that enigma unfolds, his actions have shown that it
    won’t be good for our country, and it certainly won’t be brilliant.!

  • Anonymous

    Then you would think he would be plugging a charity instead of himself.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     If you watched his show, he mentions the charity whenever he speaks of the book.

    This is the problem criticizing people and things you have no personal awareness of, but merely repeat the narratives told to you by PROVEN, politically corrupted, Media Matters news outlets.

  • Anonymous

     WTF are you talking about?  Media Matters?  Really?
    I never visit the site.  Talk about criticizing people you have no personal awareness of.

    My only point was it would have been nice if Bill could have played along without always trying to sell his wares.
    I don’t care if he gives all the money to legless orphans, he has been making a media blitz this week to keep it on the New York Times bestselling list.
    Obviously if Bill’s books were solely about charity he wouldn’t have gotten into a year-long feud with Hilary Clinton about who’s book was selling better.
    It’s also about his massive ego.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/J7SW7DUFNA6I54WNGCPGBCU5TQ Capn

    Would It would have been “funny” if Bill clocked him?

    Sure he “owned” Bill w/o Lincoln Bill could “own” him

    Disrespectful dicks

  • http://twitter.com/Samuel_Bun Samuel_Bun

    It was only scripted to a point. Bill always likes to go off script to keep it fresh. The part where he says. I don’t understand what just happened here, that was a ad lib.

  • Anonymous

    That was kinda funny. 

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Who do you’all think is more politically influential in the NET votes they’ll effect this election:

    Jon Stewart or Bill O’Reilly?

  • Anonymous

    And the racist D-bag comment award for this thread goes to…

  • Anonymous

    Bill-O hates the liberal media. Which is why he’s on it every other day. Makes sense.

  • 12voltman1

    Oreilly will do or put up with just about anything to sell his book.
    I bet he wouldn’t go on SNL unless they would help him hawk his book.
    LOL

  • 12voltman1

    Which are tax write offs so he can keep more of his Fox money.

  • 12voltman1

    Hader is always funny.

  • 12voltman1

    Damn. That was hot!

  • 12voltman1

    On this. We agree.

  • Anonymous

    It’s probably a tie. But since they both clearly have contempt for all the remaining GOP contenders, it only helps Obama.

  • http://twitter.com/mmoore1426 Mike Moore

    Love to watch all the morons rip on Bill O’Reilly.  Here is  a hint, if you don’t like him, change the channel.  I am sure Rachel Maddow would be glad for you to watch her.  She needs the ratings.

  • Ben

    “People in other countries who see these clips on YouTube must scratch their heads and wonder “What’s Up with that”?”
    Yes,they do…and then they start dancing.

  • Anonymous

    I want him to talk about his smutty novels from the 90′s.  I wonder if he does this to his PA’s: http://rat-mantheseries.com/episodes.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Isnt that what people do? They go on his show and sell their books? Is it wrong of him? Or anyone?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Its pretty funny, so much hate for him and all things FOX, I bet half of his viewers just sit there glaring, muttering..”liar, liar,liar” or “racist, racist,racist” and the money just keeps rolling in….

    Wounded Warriors thanks you guys very much.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Neither one of them is going to sway anyone, Bill O could help decide the GOP nominee I spose.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Barrack Obama is not an enigma anymore. He is a Saul Alinski community organizer from Chicago. Two of the most basic principles include.

    Fostering Dependance, and Economic Collapse.

    Brilliant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Geez, how much of his money do you want?

    If he paid a dollar in taxes thats more than GE and GM combined…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Gunsel you just made yourself sound foolish.

  • Anonymous

    So NBC is an evil network…and Bill goes on to sell his book.

    Winguts: Cue the RINOs….

    And btw, O’Reilly is actully pretty cool for playign along with this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Whats Media Matters? Never heard of it…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    It never makes him angry and they never succeed.

  • Anonymous

    FROTH HATES BLAH PEOPLE!!!

  • Anonymous

    FROTH THINKS FALAFELS BETWEEN KNEES MAKE BEST BIRTH CONTROL!!!

  • Anonymous

    FROTH HATES MEDIA, TRY MAKE FROTH LOOK STUPID! FROTH NOT STUPID!! FROTH ANGRY!!! FROTH SMASH!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    You don’t need to visit MediaMatter website. All their philosophy,  talking points and hatred are repeated on ALL MSNBC programs, after they have been carefully instructed and screened by the White House and the Democratic Party.

  • Anonymous

    RUTH RUTH BABY RUTH!

  • Anonymous

    FROTH HATE BLAH PEOPLE FOR EMBARASSING BILL!

  • Anonymous

    FROTH LIKE SONG SUNG BY BLAH PERSON, WHAT UP WITH THAT? MAKES FROTH WANT TO DANCE! WHO WANTS DANCE WITH FROTH?

  • Anonymous

     And the racist D-bag comment award for this thread goes to…RobTheKid

  • Anonymous

     If you ever watched “The O’Reilley Factor” you would know that he plugs the charity “Wounded Warriors”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    No one owns Oreilly ever.

  • Anonymous

    Is a few thousands of dollars on tax savings better than pocketing tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars from the proceeds of his book?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Indeed, but its a slow day…

    Al Sharpton makes his living beeing black and calling good people racists.

    Does anyone else think thats a fuked up way to make a living?

  • Anonymous

    As soon as he mentioned the title of his book, that fat bozo jumped up and started his idiotic “dance”.

    Yeah, Saturday Night Live really helped to hawk his book.

    Your battery down to 0 volts.

  • Anonymous

    FROTH LOVE BILL! BILL NICE TO FROTH UNLIKE CHARLIE ROSE.

  • Anonymous

    FROTH VOTE FOR WHO BILL SAYS TO VOTE FOR, FROTH LOVES BILL LIKE CHUNK.

  • Anonymous

    FROTH PAY 35% TAXES. FROTH POOREST CANDIDATE BUT PAYS HIGHEST TAXES. NO MAKE SENSE TO FROTH BUT FROTH NO COMPLAIN. THAT CAPITALISM.

  • Anonymous

    CHARITY IS FOR SOCIALISTS! FROTH HATE SOCIALISTS!!!!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Give it a rest.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Hate to admit it, but Bill-O did a good job on SNL!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Dont worry froth, Bill is untouchable

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    when you came in i thought you were a  liberal troll… Hi froth, youre amusing.

  • Anonymous

    You have set a Mediaite record for a schtick growing old the quickest. Congrats.

    It’s so bad, I even “liked” the Royal Emperor’s comment about you…and that’s a first !!

  • Anonymous

     O’Reilly reminds me of Darth Vader towards the end of Return of the Jedi.

  • http://www.facebook.com/marcohtx Marc Watkins

    I always love this sketch, and all of its random absurdity. But Its funny how O’Reilly can call NBC an evil lying network 5 days a week. But will still go on the network to promote his book. Well I guess money will always be the motivation for anything. SMH. 

  • Anonymous

    YOU NO WANT TO DANCE WITH FROTH? WHAT’S UP WITH THAT?

  • Anonymous

    HEY YOU GUYS!

  • Anonymous

    FROTH NOT REST TILL ALL GAYS ARE STRAIGHT AND ALL WOMEN HAVE BABIES!!! OR UNTIL SOMEONE DANCE WITH FROTH! WHATS UP WITH THAT!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    nbc should not even have him on. all this does is stick to keith. And it underminds MSNBC’s standing more as progressve.

  • Anonymous

    BUT FROTH WANTS TO TOUCH BILL. FROTH SAD :(

  • Anonymous

    See?  Between that, Dotzen Kroes, and our trans-partisan disgust with the Westboro Baptist Church there are still a few issues we all can agree on (cue Stonepark VXIII’s post ripping the inclusion of “marxist” European supermodels in the the SI Issue and Victoria Secret ads…..)

  • Anonymous

    He’s a coward and would NEVER go into “enemy territory”.  

  • Anonymous

    On Planet 12 Volt, donations to charity are evil and people only do them for tax write offs.  We all know Prog/Libs donate less to charity, there’s no use in digging that hole even deeper.

  • Anonymous

    Silly

  • http://twitter.com/myronfalwell Nathan Obral

    “IT’S A TRAGEDY, BABY!” XD

  • http://twitter.com/myronfalwell Nathan Obral

    It IS one of the rare times that Bill doesn’t break character… so the confusion is understandable.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     Good acting. Very believable.

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    I can’t imagine why Bill would ever lower his standards to appear on anything NBC.

     

  • Anonymous

    How? You’re not used to making much sense, are ya?

  • Anonymous

    He makes his living off of pretending to be angry about stuff he’s not really angry over. Like O’Reilly, Greta, and Hannity, and literally every other commentator. That’s fuked up, yes.

  • Anonymous

    “The Two Lindseys”.  Lindsey Buckingham actually did appear along with Bill Hader in that segment May 11, 2011. He played solo acoustic guitar as he walked onto the set.

  • Anonymous

    Another reason NOT to watch SNL.

    Some still remember when SNL was funny.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyler-Dockter/1596236310 Tyler Dockter

    He looked old and tired.  I give him 6 months tops before he expires 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyler-Dockter/1596236310 Tyler Dockter

    You ignorant old bafoon.  If you can’t find the humor here old man, change the battery in your hearing aid.

  • 12voltman1

    LOL!

  • 12voltman1

    He sat there and did nothing. How hard is that?

  • 12voltman1

    Come and visit my planet.  Hear me, young one: you are privileged. When I was a small cone, my family
    lived in an isolated quadron. I had to walk ten dextrons, knee-deep in
    farlite-crystals each day, to a little red one-room data center! I’ll never
    forget my first programmer, Miss Morlax. I wonder if her life functions are
    still active.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Good point, but he didn’t act like a pompous ass like he usually does!!

  • Anonymous

     The real Linsey and Bill Hader’s Lindsey together.  Sounds really cool

  • Anonymous

     Saul Alinski was a community organizer who said the following quotes

    A racially integrated community is a chronological
    term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of
    the last white family.

    Saul Alinsky

    Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

    Saul Alinsky

    Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/saul_alinsky.html#ixzz1msfHFMQ3

  • http://www.larry-kelly.com Larry Kelly

    NBC is not MSNBC. FNC is not Fox. ABC is not the Disney Channel. And Olbermann is not much of anything.

  • http://www.larry-kelly.com Larry Kelly

    Chris Hayes is his son.

  • Anonymous

     Here’s a utube video link of it. Not good quality. Hope it works.
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYcGkDFhhiE

  • Чёрт Возьми

     Good acting is knowing when to do nothing. (I think :-)).

  • Anonymous

    Who is Keith Olbermann?  I have never heard of him!

  • Anonymous

    I thought it was Rachel Maddow playing Kate Upton!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PAT5RWDYQGVCNPEBS5A64IOC4Q Starry

    Yeah that Rachel Madcow is a babe!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PAT5RWDYQGVCNPEBS5A64IOC4Q Starry

    and Gunsel wasn’t trying.   Imagine what he could do if he put his mind to it.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PAT5RWDYQGVCNPEBS5A64IOC4Q Starry

    Socialism begins at home.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PAT5RWDYQGVCNPEBS5A64IOC4Q Starry

    Black people also hate Blah people

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PAT5RWDYQGVCNPEBS5A64IOC4Q Starry

    I would love to plug her book.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PAT5RWDYQGVCNPEBS5A64IOC4Q Starry

    He was a sports announcer. He covered White House Basketball games,

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1eOsMc2Fgg&feature=related Phaerisee

    It seems like every single election, Bill O’Reilly tries to convince us to vote for “the lesser of two evils” I am not buying it.  I can’t vote for Mitt Romney.  He is too much of a weirdo.

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100138018/mitt-romney-suffers-from-the-weirdo-factor/

  • Anonymous

    buddy’s ex-wife got paid $20025 the prior week. she makes money on the computer and moved in a $435400 condo…….http://alturl.com/igain

  • Anonymous

    NOT FROTH’S HOME! GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! >:(

  • Anonymous

    FROTH LIKE BLA PEOPLE.

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