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SNL’s Greta Van Susteren Grills Donald Trump Over His 2 Man Debate

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SNL’s cold open featured Kristen Wiig‘s dead-on impression of Fox News host Greta Van Susteren.

Wiig’s Van Susteren interviewed Donald Trump (with a triumphant return from Darrell Hammond) about his 2-man debate with Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich and Republican whipping boy Rick Santorum.

“I’m an obvious choice because as you know I’ve been very successful,” beamed The Donald. “I don’t know if you saw the recent article in Forbes but they reported my net worth at $7 billion. Also, I have the number one show on television seen every week by something like 5 billion people. It’s huge. Plus my wife is very hot.”

Watch SNL’s Wiig expertly goof on Greta below via NBC:

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  • us995

    is this mediate or mediamatter’s?

  • Anonymous

    Gingrich made a lot of sense there.

  • Anonymous

    I thought you cons were literate these days. 

  • us995

    next he will visit all 57 states

  • us995

    no you loons gave the money to the teacher’s union’s they spent it on carribean vacation’s not students

  • Anonymous

    **DRINK**

  • Anonymous

    You can’t type either. My hypothesis is probably on the money. 

  • us995

    no my school could’t afford computers the teachers union needed the money for wind sufing lessons

  • us995

    maybe after i’m done working babe

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

    Good, but needs more Scientology jokes.
    Hail Greta! Hail Xenu!

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

    aint gonna catch on. it’s been 3 years – let it go, lad.

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

    and love Santorum being treated as the walking punchline that he is.

  • us995

    but he’s the smartest man in the room it must be correct lad

  • us995

    he’s just like Obama

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    I like Wiig but this impression isn’t dead on but just dead. I could do a better impression.

  • Anonymous

    except Obama wins

  • us995

    Idon’t know Obama is wrong more times he’s right

  • Anonymous

    He’s the POTUS asshole. Now show him some damn respect, you dickless little peanut fart!

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

    I’m glad Trump is dropping out of the debates he would try to moderate it like the Apprentice.  

  • mrfigo524

    i cant believe it takes snl an entire week to write this stuff

  • Anonymous

    Everyone here knows about the 57 states lame gaffe from three years ago.  Get some new material, noob.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Bechthold/1380381077 Mary Bechthold

    An entire week to write this stuff? Not anymore. With the debates and Trump making it incredibly easy for the writing staff on SNL, at the most they spend an hour or two.

  • http://twitter.com/Bennybombom Ben

    hahaha….

  • Anonymous

    totally ignorant senseless answer

  • Anonymous

    It wasnt funny because it was sad – this is exactly what is going down with Trump and the GOP…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DFXME6LBAYMFS4IECA6GZIZ52Y Goldy Puppy

    Does anybody even watch SNL anymore?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Greta kisses Trump’s ass more than any other cable news host!! The SNL skit was funny!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Mediaite is SNL.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    He’s a fraud..

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t take a entire week thats why you see endless unfunny skits mixed in with one or two that work.

  • Anonymous

    Funny how mediaite staff love when SNL or any other liberal entity mocks and makes fun of FNC anchors, or conservatives, or anyone outside of their little circle of lefties….but, if a poster on this board dares to make fun of a mediaite staff with all their biases and idiocies, said poster gets banned.

    Go figure.  Thin skinners post here…..make fun of them for their ridiculous articles and get banned,.  Even some other web sites are now making fun of the staff here at mediaite and their absurd headlines.

    IT was earned for sure.

  • Anonymous

    Do you want to know an Obama gaffe that’s not three years old? How about that time when he called Kansas Texas?

    How about you get some new material because the Bamster keeps giving us a bright shining example of how an elite education doesn’t produce stellar reading results.

  • Anonymous

    Rachel Sklar was just on Kurtz’s show saying how “important” that shows like SNL and The Daily Show were. I wonder if she sees how little feedback these SNL stories get on their own Mediaite website?

  • Anonymous

    The Right Wing continues to self-destruct and the looney teabagger posters on this site would rather no one point that out or add to their pain. So to you I say “GFYS.”

  • Anonymous

    Pity.

  • Anonymous

    On December 27,
    2011, if it isn’t cancelled for lack of participants, Donald Trump is scheduled
    to moderate the Newsmax ION Television Republican Presidential Debate in De
    Moines, Iowa. The jury is out on whether Trump’s P.T. Barnum approach to the
    2012 presidential election ultimately will help or hurt Republicans. What’s
    clear is Trump and P.T. Barnum have a lot in common; and “The Donald’s”
    approach to the upcoming presidential election is right in tune with the
    three-ring circus Barnum invented and American presidential elections have
    become.  http://ewross.com/to_trump_or_not_to_trump_that_is_was_the_question.htm

  • OSTL

    sock alert

  • http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sjc1/hs322.snc3/28695_104339339610961_100001046869519_36793_4471129_n.jpg COB™

    Yeah, but did you watch the SNL skit where guest host Keanu Reeves did an impression of Rachel Maddow? Man it was spot-on! :OP

  • Larry Linn

    Perhaps Trump should hire the actors from SNL to his “debate”. That is the only way that he could get the Republican “candidates” to appear. However, it could not be as humorous as the real Republican candidates.

  • Anonymous

    Kristin Wiig is hot!  She will become another Sandra Bullock and be “America’s Sweetheart Who Does Not Fall In Love With Bikers With Tattoos And Get Her Heart Broken.”

  • Anonymous

    Then audition for the show!  Kristin Wiig is hot!

  • Anonymous

    Gretta spends so much time interviewing “The Donald” that it would be easier for everybody if they dumped their spouses and moved in together

  • Anonymous

    so why bother coming here, go back to the blaze or Hot Air and drown yourself in ALL of the hate propaganda you desire. 

  • Anonymous

    some how that is relevant to this post right? otherwise, one would be forced to think your just an idiot that says random things. 

  • http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sjc1/hs322.snc3/28695_104339339610961_100001046869519_36793_4471129_n.jpg COB™

    Since the intent was to make fun of Greta, I choose to make fun of another female cable news personality. Idiot? Hardly, but use whatever disparaging remark you like if it makes you feel better.

  • Anonymous

    57 states…drink!

  • Anonymous

    Maybe, but until your lying, sorry-assed party grows a pair to even mount a reasonable challenge, He’s STILL your president boss man, Teabagger. BTW, wipe that Santorum off your lips! Melbo

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    MadCharles wrote, in response to melbo58:
    He’s a fraud..
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  • Anonymous

    Maybe, but until your lying, sorry-assed party grows a pair to even mount a reasonable challenge, He’s STILL your president boss man, Teabagger. BTW, wipe that Santorum off your lips! Melbo

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    MadCharles wrote, in response to melbo58:
    He’s a fraud..
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  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    The last few times I tried watching SNL, it looked like the skits were written for those still in the fart joke phase of their development.

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