Favority Saturday Night Live political skit?

[fujiyama]

What's your favorite political SNL skit?

I have to say mine is the one where Phil Hartman played Bill Clinton running in the New Hampshire primaries in '92. He runs around the McDonald's taking a bite of everyone's food.

It's not quite as funny since Will Farrel left. His Bush was a lot better than the guy playing him now.

[ClassWarrior]

1. It has to be...

...Dan Ackyroyd as Dick Nixon and John Belushi as Henry Kissinger.

Hysterical.

[cosmicdot]

2. Chris Farley as Newt Gingrich

one began a show, with Newt presiding over the House, passing legislation left and right to the point of just having Republicans shout out what they wanted, and gaveled it passed

the other involving Connie Chung visiting Newt's mother (Don't talk to Connie Chung!)

there may have been a 3rd ... I'm thinking it was Newt who had a "It's a Wonderful Life" moment ... came back to find out that Hillary had become President

[ironflange]

3. The one with Phil Hartman playing Reagan

Ron is an extremely energetic, dynamic and forceful leader during a cabinet meeting, even yelling into the phone in German and Arabic. But whenever a member of the public comes in, he becomes the friendly doddering guy. He finally wears out all of his cabinet.

[Ready4Change]

7. This would have been one of my two choices...

The other would have been one prior to the 2000 election. The various candidates discussing things in a living room like setting. The most memorable was Will Farrels Bush being totally distracted the whole time by playing with a ball of yarn.

[Exultant Democracy]

17. The competent Reagan sketch is funny as hell.

[Gadave]

23. Mine too! It was and is hilarious. n/m

[murielm99]

4. Mine is a really old one,

it is about an investigation into a spitball that made impossible maneuvers, like the bullet that shot Kennedy.

Another one I liked is the one where Al Franken played a television weatherman giving the forecast after a nuclear war. Grim humor.

[VelmaD]

5. Clinton and Bush and Perot at the debate

With Dana Carvey doing Perot and Poppy Bush both and Phil Hartman as Clinton. Whenever one candidate looked at the other it showed you how they saw them in their head. Clinton looked like a doped up hippie. Poppy looked like the Church Lady. And when they showed Perot...they cut to an image of the Mucnkin Mayor from the Wizard of Oz. I about peed my pants I was laughing so hard.

[UrbScotty]

24. Yes, that one!

That is one of my favorites!

[nini]

6. Coffee Talk - when Barbra Streisand made a surprise visit.

Madonna and Roseanne were guests.

It was hysterical.

[EllieDem]

8. My favorite ones go back about 10 years

those old sorority skits....."Delta Delta Delta, can I help ya help ya help ya? God those were hilariousl

[dae]

9. Let's go way way back in time to the John Belushi playing a Japanese

samurai Master Baker. When "Master Baker" is said very fast it resembles masterbater and Belushi and Co. are off.

[AmandaRuth]

10. anyone

with Dan Goodman playing Linda Tripp. Oh my gosh they were funny.

It just sorely fries me that the pentagon gave her something like 500,000 in our tax money, with the nerve of telling us it is anything but what it really was - a payout for services rendered. Talk about reThugs taking care of their own.

[LynneSin]

11. Al Gore as Trent Lott saying "I will leave no white child behind"

Al Gore hosted SNL right after the Trent Lott comment (how he thought the country would have been better with racist STrom Thurmond winning president in 1948).

Anyhow, they did a Hardball skit and Al Gore did Trent Lott. I pissed my pants off it was so good.

[smallprint]

12. the first one with bush and cheney

darrell hammond as dick cheney, smirking, sitting at a desk, talking about how he is the one really running the country. in comes will farrell as bush, acting like an 8 yr old, says "hee hee... your name's DICK... hee hee hee"
the audience totally lost it... it was so funny. it just summed everything up perfectly.

[IronLionZion]

13. Palm Beach

where Katharine Harris is a nutcase and Bush thinks winning an election is like winning a fishing trophy. When he finds out he has to be president for 4 years he says " That blows! Damn that Dick Cheney!"

[burythehatchet]

14. Chris Farley as the Chippendales dancer competing with Patrick Swayze

LMAO

[kath]

15. In early 1992, back when everyone thought that Poppy Bush was

unbeatable, they had a hilarious skit where the Democratic candidates had a debate and were declaring why they should NOT be nominated to be the "chump that would lose to George Bush". It ended with Cuomo saying "Bottom line, I've got mob ties"

Also. their skit of the Anita Hill hearings was very funny.

And let's not forget the "smart Reagan" skit, and Al Franken as the "One-Man Mobile Uplink" during the primaries...

Too bad that show sucks so bad nowadays...

[OneBlueSky]

16. Bass-O-Matic! . . . followed closely by . . .

the Claudine Longer ski competition . . . (bang! . . . there goes another one!) . . . :silly:

[maveric]

18. 76 Dem primary. Bill Murray as Ted Kennedy, Akaroyd as Carter

Murray as Teddy comes out on the stage with seaweed around his neck,looking disoriented and nervously saying "Wheres Joan, Wheres Joan".

[SideshowScott]

19. I really thought Darrell Hammods Clinton was hystarical

But Hartmans had more heart..Sigh I miss Phill! He did a great Reagan too.
But Hammonds Clinton would make me laugh every time..From the " Suck it! " to " The next time yall come after me yall better bring some krytonite! " his clinton would always make me laugh..Yes sometimes it was a bit mean spirited but all and all I thought it was a hoot..
I think the people who are doing Bush now are just lame! There is so much there that they are too scared to do due to NBC and GE now putting the screws to SNL..( You can tell! )
It just goes to show who can take a joke and who cant..The better people can laugh at themselves I think..

[marigold20]

20. Just after the selection, * on a sofa, playing with a ball of string

Will Ferrell was great - he was lying on his back, arms and legs in the air, tossing a ball of string.

[VOX]

21. Dan Ackroyd as Nixon and Belushi as Kissinger...

With Jane Curtin as Pat Nixon, drinking from a brandy snifter the size of a fishbowl...Ackroyd's Nixon (with all these monstrous, spastic movements) typing away in the dead of night, during a thunderstorm...Belushi looking (and sounding) startlingly like Kissinger...

Vintage, classic fare.

[Maccagirl]

22. "The Final Days"

A classic indeed. Nixon talking to paintings of past presidents- to Lincoln he says "You were lucky-they SHOT you!" and to Kennedy "And you Kennedy, you always looked so good. And you had sex with women in the White House! You'd never see Dick Nixon having sex in the White House! Never! Never!".

[THUNDER HANDS]

25. three words

"I...am...bulletproof."

[Parrcrow]

26. Dan Ackroyd as Jimmy Carter

Doing his State of the Hehmoroid (sp?) speech

[peekaloo]

28. Ackroyd as Carter and Bill Murray as Walter Cronkite doing a live

call-in show. Carter ends up talking down a guy (I think it was Franken or maybe Davis) on an acid trip.

[Nlighten1]

30. Or the one where he was talking to the guy doing acid

"Do you have any Allman Brothers"?

[fudge stripe cookays]

27. 92 Primaries, addressing the Star Trek convention

Still makes me giggle incessantly.

"All the other candidates want to be Santa Claus. I don't want to be Santa Claus. I want to be Captain Kirk."

[trogdor]

29. It's HAPPY! It's FUN!

It's Happy Fun Ball!