SNL spoofs Obama: I won Nobel for not being Bush

By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 -- 10:23 am
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fredarmisenasobama <i>SNL</i> spoofs Obama: I won Nobel for not being BushNBC's Saturday Night Live spoofed President Barack Obama for the second week in a row on Saturday, declaring in a sketch that the president won the Nobel Peace Prize for not being George W. Bush.

"Jimmy carter won it for decades of trying to find solutions to international conflicts," said actor Fred Armisen, playing Obama. "Al Gore won it for his years of educating the US about climate change. And us? Well, I won it for not being George Bush."

He added: "This award was as a complete surprise, as I have only not been George W. Bush for nine months."

The Obama character said he didn't receive a call from the Nobel committee before the annnouncement, but wished he had, so he could say to Hillary Clinton, "Hey, remember that 3 a.m. call you were so worried about? It happened. Nobel Peace Prize."

Armisen's Obama went on to announce that he had also just won $70 million in the Powerball lottery, and "it was the first lottery ticket I ever bought."

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He said he would decide what to do with the money by conferring with his economic adviser Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, "because those guys do not make mistakes."

The previous week, in another Armisen sketch, SNL accused Obama of having done nothing in the first nine months of his presidency. Mindful of the potential influence of SNL mockery, CNN declared that sketch to be "the end of Obama's honeymoon."

This video is from NBC's Saturday Night Live, broadcast Oct. 10, 2009.



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  • Nastyberry
    You guys are just pissed because it's true. You're no better then Bushbots. Get a sense of humour.
  • aerows
    We have a sense of humor, and he won because he isn't Bush. I hope the rejection of Bush continues for decades. Reject Fox while you are at it, because Rupert Murdoch achieved wealth, but he damn near destroyed Australia along with it, and he's trying to bring the gutter to America. We are better than being the ultimate gutter, we are capable of reaching out our hand and pulling our brothers and sisters out of the gutter, instead of dragging more people into them.
  • Max_1
    When you said, "It's true," THAT was the only correct phrase in your statement.

    Now, can we discuss why it is true?

    .
  • charmed
    That was no spoof; it was bad television.

    Fred Armisen in brown-face is not an act. It's like watching an endless loop of Groundhog Day, and we know he'll never get it right until he drops it.
  • glogrl
    Lame.
  • FUSNL
    F.U. SNL

    Granted I dig Obama, but this shit isn't even clever.
  • philedrifter
    Makes me upset I missed it, but I was dead tired and didn't even know who was hosting. I did record last week's episode with Ryan Reynolds though and happened to catch that awesome opening skit.
  • aerows
    It's actually funny, because it is so absurd.

    Did he win because he wasn't Bush? Hell, yes. That's the American people and the world saying we need the antithesis of Bush. Obama is more than that, because he is actually capable of being more than "not Bush", but that should tell you just how much *everyone* is over the right wing, right wing ideology, and Rupert Murdoch-style gutter politics.

    Get out of the gutter, America - but we can still laugh our butts off at SNL and bad acting when we see it. Armisen is *intentionally* a bad actor, please get the joke - it isn't to imply that Obama is a bad president, it is to imply that it is so hard to make fun of him because he is such a *good* man and president.
  • rmcc4444
    What exactly do him and Bush differ on?

    -Continue war in Iraq .. check
    -Expand war in Afghanistan ..check
    -Continue The Patriot Act ..check
    -Czars ..check
    -Infested by lobbyists ..check
    -In bed with the bankers ..check
    -Love big government ..check
    -Wiretapping ..check
    -Enact legislation through fear ..check
    -Lie, Lie, Lie, Lie ..check

    http://www.reboottherepublic.com
  • bayside
    Obama doesnt deserve the peace prize yet, I still have hope for him, however the dancing in the streets worldwide were because obama stopped the premptive , I am U.S and I can invade and kill whoever I want too policy of bush ..Innocents were killed because they had the bad luck to live in the oil rich country bush wanted,and yes bush and company will be accountable in a world court for this..
  • douvie
    He was given the Nobel Prize so that he would be hemmed in from repeating the Bush error and escalate the conflict. I have little confidence that the hawks Hillary and Gates haven't won the day and the American public is being screwed again. God help us. It's all the same lines-- we can't lose or they'll "win;" we have to make Afghanistan safe for Democracy; and my favorite: "We have to give the Afghani people a shot at Democracy." They don't give a shit about Democracy. For Christ's sake leave! We don't belong there. Stop pissing away money and lives we can't afford to lose.
  • unclejoe40
    cant arminsen even try to do obama's voice? his impression is pathetic and kills the joke

    seeing a white man in black face is racist bullshit
  • joshfultondotblogspot
    50 reasons why Obama should NOT have won the Nobel:

    http://joshfulton.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-wi...
  • ellwort
    This guy is unquestionably the worst actor ever to make it regular status on Saturday Night Live, which has had its ups and downs.
    Now, it's downs.
  • ryantalleedman
    Wow..not funny
  • wellwellwell
    RIght on, Obama did nothing to deserve this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbcDk-bNoc8&feat...

    People know this, he DID NOTHING! I am not a con or a lib or a Bush guy..just a person who is not partisan.
  • wellwellwell
    Most of you should know what Obama is continuing all of Bush's policies too..so this guy definetly doesn't deserve it. I am surprised that Raw Readers..would support him getting this if they actually read the news here.
  • SuckitHolmes
    ha ha. That is pretty good. Ya know, all you liberal buttholes, you like throwin the poo around like you did when Bush was in office, and we all know how many spoofs were made about him, but when little, funny, insignificant spoofs get made about the liberal presidents you get all butt hurt. Welcome to the arena BITCHES.
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