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SNL Has A Message From The Ghost Of Muammar Gaddafi

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by Sarah Devlin | 11:39 pm, November 5th, 2011

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They had to do it one last time. The cold open for tonight’s episode was Fred Armisen’s Ghost of Muammar Gaddafi offering some advice from beyond the grave. “Don’t dare people to kill you,” he cautioned. Also, “never refer to your people as rats.” He also noted that it’s nearly impossible to reason with a mob, especially when everyone in it is determined to kill you.

“As you might have guessed, I’m in hell now, which as you can see looks pretty much like Libya,” he told the camera. He described hell as sort of a club for terrible people — Saddam Hussein and the band from the FreeCreditReport.com commercials among them. Gaddafi also thanked a few of his biggest supporters, which was reminiscent of Armisen’s farewell speech as Osama bin Laden in a cold open from a few months ago. Although the sketch was a bit derivative (though really, how were they supposed to know that two of America’s biggest enemies abroad would die in the same year), it was overall pretty clever and incisive. How come we had to wait for Gaddafi to die for him to get funny?

You can see the cold open here, via NBC:

Muammar Gaddafi, Saturday Night Live

Marciana

This is offensive as is the title to your article “The last of the buffoon dictators”. Marciana
Anonymous

hysterical
Anonymous

Offensive? You’re a Muammar Gaddafi supporter?
Anonymous

No, she means you are an (-).
Anonymous

Have you considered suing your brains for nonsupport?
Anonymous

Whom am I calling “stupid”? I don’t know. What’s your name
Anonymous

I traced your family tree and its branch died from a STD.
Anonymous

Grasp your ears firmly and remove your head from your ass.
Anonymous

Go ahead, tell them everything you know. It’ll only take 10
seconds.
Anonymous

Gadaffi was a great man…not!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7QVUUCGCP56U2BT5GAK5YO6CUU George

Gaddafi got rich off the oil from his country but never helped the poor people in his country. He also killed a lot of his own people too. Gaddafi did a lot of bad things to his people, that’s why he was killed. If you don’t know what Gaddafi did and why he was hated by his people, this article gives a great explanation on it.

http://explainlikeakid.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-gaddafi-was-killed.html
http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

Hey Mediaite! Question for you, I thought you supposedly cover the media. Now, you are bringing coverage of SNL into your repertoire, just like you cover Bill Maher.

Tell us folks, what EXACTLY are you attempting to prove with your coverage of SNL?

That leftists are liars? That Hollyweird is just another propagandist site of the US empire? Wgat are you getting at?
Lulu

The POTUS is a war criminal, but no fear, he hs the greatest PR machine. Hollywood!