Osama bin Laden Reads His Last Will And Testament On SNL

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by Sarah Devlin | 11:42 pm, May 7th, 2011

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Surprising no one, the opening sketch for tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live was a reading of Osama bin Laden’s last will and testament on C-SPAN (where else?). Bin Laden’s requests included having Dakota Fanning as a pall bearer, provided she is still under 12 and a virgin at the time of his death, as well as a directive to not bury him at sea. Whoops, we’ve failed on both counts!

Fred Armisen’s bin Laden also took the time to thank his “human shield, Fatima” and the Pakistani Intelligence Service for being so “solid” and “reliable.” Though bin Laden’s death is ripe for mocking from a New York institution like Saturday Night Live, this sketch dragged a bit and seemed just a tad too real. Yes, I know that he talks about the terrible quality of restaurants in Mecca and the upsetting flavor of camel poop, but still! It was a strangely downbeat note on which to start the show.

Watch the clip from NBC below:

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Antony-Dupuy/1194612935 Antony Dupuy

That was painful and deeply unfunny. Just cancel it already.
WCinWI

Too soon.

One of several reasons not to watch SNL.

Miss you Chris Farley!
Jaurez

Classy.
Alz

Lame
Nacho

Haters gonna hate and you people are full of hate.
george L

I agree that it was lame.
BeckFinallyDemoted

Lame, altho SNL did have some good parts…

The Digital Short, Stephan, Quaddafi’s Best Friends and The Debate.

The rest was crap ‘cept the musical guest was kinda hot.
dhg

SNL once again wasted an opportuinity to be actually funny and just had an actor get on camera and say dumb stuff…

No edge anymore,time for either a replacement show and a cleaning house of the crew starting with Lorne Micheals.
dhg

BeckFinallyDemoted said:
Lame, altho SNL did have some good parts…

The Digital Short, Stephan, Quaddafi’s Best Friends and The Debate.

The rest was crap ‘cept the musical guest was kinda hot.

Digital Short = Micheal Bolton carried goofy singing.

Debate = People dressed up tp look like Republicans saying unfunny lines

Woo Hoo that’s entertainment!
The Lantern of Truth

BeckFinallyDemoted said:
Lame, altho SNL did have some good parts… The Digital Short, Stephan, Quaddafi’s Best Friends and The Debate. The rest was crap ‘cept the musical guest was kinda hot.

Tune in next for STD’s review of his favorite program , Gossip Girl .
writer

He left the King his curling iron.
donalan

Leftist show making fun of OBL. Why cant everyone see this is a liberal/communist channel.
slickerwick

Boring. They need new writers.
Barack Must Go

If SNL wants to do something funny and bin Laden related, they ought to resurrect the old land shark character.

He could go up to the wall, ring the bell ( throw one of the stones in the basket to get guards attention ) while calling out special delivery package or whatever. The rest is history.
Georgia999

At first I couldn’t wait to watch it. Sounded like it would be hysterical. Then, seeing that quite a few Mediaite Regulars had commented, I (instead) read the comments. Thanks for the reviews, guys, I won’t waste my time.
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Respectfully, I have to disagree as to the humorousness of the sketch.
If you watch it closely, the actor portraying Bin Laden spends the entire sketch drolling “ “dalla blalahala padalhijk ialljul aadaahulaj allahaijulaaa aballaij uallajada dujuho allajokistni laskullajioohlaa….” consistently and without cracking so much as a smile…
That my friend, is HILARIOUS! I could never have pulled that off, for that long. Based on that alone, it was funny, funny, funny. Socially acceptable? Perhaps not, but with an institution like SNL, what else can you expect? They are known for pushing the envelope and “poking the bear” so to speak. They are comically repugnant, that’s their angle… it’s what we’ve come to expect and I don’t see it changing any time soon.
I think with a legendary cast of writers, talent and crew that includes some of the most forward thinking minds of our time, you’ve really got no choice but to take it how they dish it out.
If it’s personally offensive to us as viewers, it’s our right to take it or leave it. For myself, when I see sketches that I find in bad taste, the sketch itself generally proves useful to me, in becoming a conversational peice that I can use in my arguments.
So, yeah…I don’t agree with the “topic” of the sketch, it seems in bad taste to me but since this is a SNL bit and a COMEDY sketch show meant to poke fun at society in general and help us to be a little less uptight… It’s served it’s purpose well and that make’s it a good episode INHO. In a world of varied opinion’s, we’ve got to make room for them all…