SNL’s Obama On Budget: No One Got What They Wanted And Everyone Is Unhappy

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by Sarah Devlin | 11:49 pm, April 9th, 2011

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Fred Armisen’s Barack Obama was back tonight to comment on the barely-averted budget shutdown this weekend. It was a typical legislative triumph, Obama concluded, as everyone “walked away unhappy.” Also upset? Congressional interns who would rather spit game at the bar, the cleaning staff on Capitol Hill, and kids who were hoping the shutdown meant they didn’t have to go with their parents to Yellowstone National Park. Members of Congress weren’t too happy either, but for personal reasons: Mitt Romney was reminded of his inability to connect to other human beings, and Dennis Kucinich was still sore over being picked last for kickball.

Armisen’s Obama impression, usually a tad on the dull side, was livened up by pretty solid writing, and the sketch wasn’t an interminable length (as the cold opens can sometimes be). Still, I doubt anyone was LOL-ing. Watch it here.

Congress, Dennis Kucinich, Fred Armisen, Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama, SNL

White Ninja

Meh
Barack Must Go

There is art imitating life or reality, but what do you call it when left wing bomb thrower comedy imitates their boss? The word pathetic comes to mind.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tucker-Peterson/721293033 Tucker Peterson

Was not very funny !
writer

SNL does an unfunny bit? The devil you say!
Group Hug

We liked it and we are Happy About it! Group Hug to SNL
BarneyFranken

Group Hug said:
We liked it and we are Happy About it! Group Hug to SNL

Are you kidding? This was horribly unfunny.

Fred Arminsen’s Obama is the dullest character in SNL history.

Every other president character has been made fun of in their imitation. Not Obama!

Obama is always the straight man in the joke- never the joke himself.

Is NBC is so in the tank for Obama that they cant bring themselves to tell a joke at Obama’s expense?

Or do we have the least interesting President of the last 30 years, and even the genius comedy minds at SNL dont know how to portray him any funnier than to let him crack a few tepid jokes in a mock Oval Office address?

Forget politics: Anyone who cares abut COMEDY should be offended by this. If SNL can’t make fun of Obama (and considering its over two years into his presidency, I’d say the jury is out on that) then what was previously the most daring network show of all time now is a slave to an agenda, and there is nothing funny about that.
Jerps

Armisen’s Obama impression is atrocious. They really need to give it to Jay Pharaoh next season. Please. Enough. Chase’s Ford, Aykroyd’s Carter, Hartman’s Reagan, Carvey’s Bush, Hammond’s Clinton, Farrell’s Bush, and now… blech. Armisen’s Obama deserves to go the way of Parnell’s Bush.
http://Mediaite.com uggugg

This is what happens when you debate with a predetermined; who is right rather than; what is right. It also happens when you have a combative attitude, it also happens when you are trying to satisfy a secret 3rd party, it also happens when 3 different parties are negotiating with only one party. Things can only continue to get crazier as long as these conditions exist.
andthehorseyourodeinon

Not real funny. Obama unintentionally is funnier in a perverse way as he leads the country to financial ruin.
X-3

To put this country back on the right track, there is much more needed than cutting spending by a few billion. To be fair, getting to where we NEED to be will be painful–we are BROKE!
billwhit1357

Now I know why I stopped watching SNL over twenty years ago, not funny at all. I could have been if they had portrayed our Idiot in Chief as the Worthless Excuse of a Leader that he really is. Oh well, I still won’t watch SNL anymore, not unless they grow a couple of testicles and make fun of the Worst Leader America has ever had.

Allen West 2012! A Proven Leader, Patriot, and a Born American with a long form BC! Or Trump, or Newt, or Palin, or Bachmann, or the neighbors dog! Anyone but the current fool, B. Hussein Obama!
timcajun

Barack Must Go says:
There is art imitating life or reality, but what do you call it when left wing bomb thrower comedy imitates their boss? The word pathetic comes to mind.
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What I call pathetic is when the same bags that loved this “equal” slam didn’t like the Fox and Fiends, dead on bit, about their silly spin bias that is part of every show! Keep the hate alive!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WAUGTNJSK4XG4OKSPAU43VOTEM gwenb

Since its inception, SNL has spoofed every president. This one gets a free ride (white guilt). It’s pretty sad.