I missed the latest Saturday Night Live , but by the next morning I had received an email from a concerned citizen about the content of its "cold open", in which Fred Armisen, as President Barack Obama, is assailed by Will Forte's Hu Jintao over America owing China money. The emailer was angry at Saturday Night Live for enforcing flawed media narratives to the effect that the stimulus package...
[Trigger warning.] Above is the opening segment from this weekend's Saturday Night Live . I'm not going to do a transcript, because the content can be easily summarized as: A sketch set at a joint press conference with the not-black Fred Armisen ( still ) playing President Barack Obama in blackface, and the not-Asian Will Forte playing Chinese President Hu Jintao not in yellowface but speaking ching-chong...
“Saturday Night Live” opened its show last night with a comedy sketch that skewered Dear Leader Obama over his economic policies including health care, “Cash for Clunkers” and borrowing billions of dollars from China. The NBC program featured comic Fred Armisen portraying the commander in chief at a news conference with Chinese President Hu Jintao, played [...]
NBC's "Saturday Night Live" really went after President Obama in its opening sketch Saturday evening. Not only that, his policies involving economic stimulus, healthcare reform, and Cash for Clunkers were also exposed as having absolutely no positive or future impact on unemployment. The setup was Obama, played by Fred Armisen, doing a press conference with Chinese President Hu Jintao, played...
Saturday Night Live's opening skit was not kind to Obama. It was a joint press conference from Beijing with Obama, played by Fred Armisen and Chinese president Hu Jintao, played by Will Forte. There was also an interpreter, Nasim Pedrad. Transcript ANNOUNCER: We will now take you live to Beijing for the joint press conference already underway between U.S. President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao....
A few weeks back, Leonard Pierce was covering this show for TV Club and made note that the Fred Armisen episode lacked the strength of Parks & Rec 's supporting cast. Tonight we saw the other end of the spectrum. Even though every single cast member played some part of the action, "Hunting Trip" lacked the character focus that made episodes like "Ron And Tammy" and "Kaboom"...
There is a maddening paradox to this year’s spectacularly underachieving season of Saturday Night Live. The show is full of funny, talented, dynamic young performers. I like just about everyone in the current incarnation of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players: Fred Armisen, Andy Samberg, Will Forte, Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig. Yet the show is seldom better than mediocre and...
Filed under: Saturday Night Live , Episode Reviews , Reality-Free (S35E06) There was a strange moment of nodding recognition at the end of the night, as I watched Jason Sudeikis and January Jones in the cloud-gazing sketch. Throughout, the man pauses to consider the woman's weird behavior and then concedes, "Ohh, you're a very pretty, pretty woman." Yup. That's pretty much how I reacted...
We understand why you'd be confused about that, "lguy." Fred Armisen is in fact offensive, but that is mostly because he sucks so very, very badly. Now, the obvious takeaway from the U of T blackface scandal (such as it is) is that a bunch of college kids did something that was kind of thoughtless but not unforgivable . However, it is impossible for a certain type of person to accept this...
January Jones to appear on Saturday Night Live, check out the promotional video. January Jones SNL promo alongside Fred Armisen. January Jones and her headline-grabbing cleavage will host SNL this weekend. The Mad Men star will have a tough act to follow after Taylor Swift’s appearance last weekend. The actress will probably be keeping her scandalous chesticles to [...]
During NBC’s four new promos for Saturday Night Live, January Jones says her own first name about 10 different ways, revealing skills much more advanced than her efforts at beer pong. Fred Armisen mocks her name because it’s unusual. The spot referencing Mad Men is my favorite, especially considering Armisen is real-life married to Jones’
Check out the brand spankin’ new promo for this weekend’s Saturday Night Live with Mad Men hottie January Jones! Check out the promo vid below starring the 31-year-old blonde beauty and SNL regular Fred Armisen (the husband of January’s co-star Elisabeth Moss). Betty Draper and Peggy Olson’s real-life husband! The best segment is when Fred [...]
Mad Men 's January Jones and boyfriend of Mad Men 's Elisabeth Moss, Saturday Night Live 's Fred Armisen, on a promo roll for this weekend's SNL . (via NBC )
They've got a pretty good cast over there at Saturday Night Live these days, with Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, and Fred Armisen standing out in my mind fairly consistently. But the writing is usually not very strong. Granted, it doesn't help that Taylor Swift is the best host you can get to kick off November sweeps, because it limits the kind of sketches you can do. On the flipside, you...
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