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NEW YORK – The comedians who played presidents on “Saturday Night Live” have gathered for a comedic summit in a new Web video on FunnyOrDie.com.
The video, posted Wednesday, stars Fred Armisen as President Barack Obama. During the night he is visited by the ghosts of presidents past, who urge him to push for financial reform.
Will Ferrell reprises his President George W. Bush, Darrell Hammond plays President Bill Clinton, Dana Carvey returns as President George H.W. Bush, Dan Aykroyd plays President Jimmy Carter and Chevy Chase returns as President Gerald Ford.
Jim Carrey, the lone comedian not a veteran of “SNL,” appears as Ronald Reagan. The “SNL” player who typically played Reagan on the show was Phil Hartman, who died in 1998. (Maya Rudolph, another former “SNL” cast member, also plays Michelle Obama.)
The video was directed by Ron Howard, who previously worked with Funny Or Die for a popular video that brought him back to his days with “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Happy Days” to support Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.
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Very funny! Be sure to watch the extras as well.
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Man, I miss Phil Hartman…
Carrey’s Reagan was so washed out by his own ticks that it was just a Jim Carrey routine while he was dressed as Reagan.
Aykroyd’s Carter was almost unrecognisable.
As for Chase. He never really did a Ford impression. He always did Chase pratfalling. So he was spot on as his old self. Which of course is boring.
The others were fine. All in all it really wasn’t that funny. So I guess this is a die?
Let’s hope so.
It makes me miss Lou Costello, Red Skelton, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman & Jonathan Winters more.
We don’t have real talent in the sketch comedy pool.
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They should probably have dug up the real Regan or the great Phil Hartman rather than use Carey. Sure, he might have stunk the place out but at least that would have been funny.
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While I agree that I didn’t get Aykroyd, Cursor_ how effing old are you? Did some of those comedians do talkies too?
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President Obama is set to honor former President George W. Bush today.
He has asked Haiti to rename the Tectonic plate that caused the earthquake.
It will now be known as “Bush’s Fault.”
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#7 Colonel Catsup
I am younger than Mr. Dvorak, but I remember good sketch comedians. And yes they all talked, that’s how sketch comedy works.
If it was silent it would physical comedy and scene situations. Think Chaplin or Mr. Bean.
YouTube some of those people and see just how funny they could be without resorting to toilet/fart jokes, weed parody and every third word an expletive. Not that I am totally against expletive use, it is when you rely solely upon them that it gets dull and tiresome.
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