Video: Hillary On Saturday Night Live
NEW YORK (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton took a break from the campaign trail to thank “Saturday Night Live” for giving her candidacy a boost—although she failed to get an official endorsement from the show.
Clinton’s campaign has gotten a good deal of mileage out of an “SNL” sketch from a week ago in which reporters fawned over her rival, Barack Obama. Clinton brought up the sketch during last Tuesday’s debate between the two candidates, and the campaign has encouraged supporters and voters to watch it on NBC’s Web site.
This weekend’s episode opened with a similar sketch recreating Tuesday’s debate. It portrayed NBC anchors Brian Williams and Tim Russert asking Clinton, played by Amy Poehler, tough questions while serving softballs to Obama.
Then the real Clinton appeared onscreen with an “editorial response.”
The sketch, she said, “wasn’t an endorsement of one candidate over another. I can say this confidently because when I asked if I could take it as an endorsement, I was told, ‘Absolutely not.’ But I still enjoyed that sketch a great deal because I simply adore Amy’s impression of me.”
When Poehler asked her how the campaign was going, Clinton responded: “The campaign is going very well. Very, very well. Why, what have you heard?”
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race in January, appeared later on the “Weekend Update” segment. Giuliani blamed his campaign’s failure on a 1997 episode of the show, in which he dressed in drag for one sketch.
It was the third consecutive “SNL” episode featuring a presidential contender. Republican candidate Mike Huckabee appeared on “Weekend Update” last week. On a November episode of “SNL,” the last before the Writers Guild of America strike, Obama played himself as a guest at a party thrown by Hillary and Bill Clinton.
The music on this weekend’s episode was performed by Wilco, a Chicago- based band that performed at a fundraiser for Obama in December.
Clinton is scheduled to appear on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on Monday. Last Thursday, she was featured in a brief comedy segment on CBS’ “Late Show with David Letterman.”
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ugh. I think I just puked in my mouth a little bit.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:36 pmWhy can’t she be losing to someone better than her for our country, not worse?
March 1st, 2008 at 10:55 pmI have to admit, that “Why, what have you heard?” part was funny.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:59 pmUhm, the fake one is a lot thinner.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 amI also liked the routine where the debate moderators, Russert and, what’s that NBC nightly news person(?) were asking Hillary answers, telling her she was wrong with her answer and ask Hussein the same question. Of course, he knew the right answer.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 am
The soul of a woman was created below…
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:02 amNow that second video spoke volumes. When did Dan Abrams get intelligent, and how wormy did that Alter scumbag seem? Isn’t he the same asshole that wrote the Koran-flushing story. Fuck Newsweek.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:38 amI say why not GO DOWN UGLY, she has no hope of REDEMPTION.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:53 amThe soul of a woman was created below…
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I am CERTAIN you meant “The soul of THAT woman was created below …”
Not “The soul of [a] woman …”
Right?
Please, say, “Right, drill” … `cause I DON’T wanna have to go all Marine General James Mattis on ya … “I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes …”
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 amCan we all agree that this current election cycle should go down in history as an example of the worst and most unfair election event ever? Starting too early, media manipulation to
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:33 pmthe N-th degree, party cross voting. This whole thing has been a sham that could be made totally fair with primary’s run just as the main election is, by all vote on the same day across the nation with the addition of a media blackout on voting day.