How a Bill Does Not Become a Law - SNL
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2014
- A Bill (Kenan Thompson) tries to explain government to a little kid (Kyle Mooney), then President Obama (Jay Pharaoh) and his bullying friend Executive Order (Bobby Moynihan) explain how things really work. [Season 40, 2014]
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Pushing him down those stairs? That's called a "veto" :D
RIGHT THERE! A funnier line than anything the SNL writers could come up with.
@@jbrisby but that was literally the whole joke in the video
But a President can only veto a bill once.
Wait, my sister is a veto
Lol
"I'm an executive order and I pretty much just happen". Gold.
+Elena Gilbert Whats "sad" is how people are not marching on Washington to protest it. Our founders would already be forming militias to stop the madness.
Literally lol-ed
@Ryno LASCAVIO- I don't think you understand how the Founders did things.
Thing is boys (or girls), we elected Obama, meaning that most of America wanted someone who would make a decision like that in the White House.
good job stealing a comment
Y’all are talking about Trump and Obama while we should be focusing on how a piece of paper is smoking another piece of paper
does it count as cannibalism? I mean, he didn't eat the paper, but he smoked it so...
Probably not cannibalism, but definitely still enough to get him into a psychiatric ward.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
@@winny8139 That brings up an important question - Does smoking the remains of a human count as cannibalism?
@@tyler5580 .............LET'S FIND OUT *loud intro music starts*
That is a *damned* good Obama voice impression though, gotta hand it to him.
Especially the facial expressions.
I guess when you have six black cast members, one of them's bound to be able to do Obama.
@@jbrisby his look is 8/10 and his voice is 9/10, it sounds just like him and looks pretty close as well
Is it better than AlphaCat?
Jay Pharoah
"Adorable you still think that's how government works."
AMAZING
Works*
Rip
"One Year Later..." um...sure looks like this is how it works.
anavan7 it was edited
lvl 1 comissioner
lvl 30 president
that's how Obama works
A twelve year old can write funnier jokes on Twitter. I know because I am one.
Our history teacher showed us this after we watched the original one
Edit: I was literally in 8th grade when I made that comment and now I'm graduating in like a month wow
Sarahb 2003 wow what a coincidence so did mine
Mine too!
Sarahb 2003 mister christenson is cool, aint he?
Sarahb 2003 my government teacher showed my class this
Sarahb 2003 same exact thing happened to us
"I'm an executive order, and I pretty much just happen."
*proceeds to smoke a cigarette*
Had me rolling for a good minute 😂😂
"That's it!"
*”aww that’s adorable you think that’s still how government works”*
@@MM-uw5uj shit was Stale you was better of not commenting with that lame shit
Aijalon Taylor ubknowni was just quoting something from the video and why u cussing so much lmaoo 😂
@@MM-uw5uj fuck shit sick bitch
Remember when Obama complained for hours on end on Twitter about this... me neither
true
👏👏👏
Remember when Obama got tough on China....
me neither.
Mark Crawford you mean just like trump
@@markcrawford5810 lol the Chinese hated Obama....in contrast they love Trump because they have learned so much about trade wars and targeted economic attacks on the US to use in the future as unrestrained trade wars are not taboo now..
"I'm an executive order, and I pretty much just happened." (takes in a cigarette)
That part cracks me up every single time. Pure gold!
Agreed!
+Cody Fuqua "Cracks" me up lol
Perfect impression of Donnie and Barry's mutual Best Buddy!
Halfway in the song and then stop while that kid in shocked, probably education changes in whole strange way.
Bread Ok
“SNL only makes fun of Trump”
If by Trump you mean every president since 1976 lol
What part of this seems AT ALL to be trying to "make sense" of what Obama was saying?
Also, I'm sorry, but the rest of us are pretty clear on what Trump is saying or doing. Just because you believe him when he says "I never said that" doesn't mean the rest of us are going to doubt the video evidence of him saying it. Just because he deletes a tweet doesn't mean the rest of us don't remember seeing it. Nobody has to make up anything when for some reason he refuses to stop talking.
@Clorox Bleach Cause trump has alot of material for SNL
@Clorox Bleach they actually don't exaggerate. A president who stands in front of a crowd then praises a politician who attacked a journalist. And the sad part of that, people cheer!
A lot of snl vintages made extreme level fun of other presidents sooooo
Look Im no Trump supporter but lets not pretend SNL is super biased. This is the only skit I recall making fun of Obama, SNL, since Trumps election has 1-2 skits PER EPISODE based on Trump related things. Whether or not they are valid is a moot point.
“I’m an Executive Order and I pretty much just happen”
The music cutting off just killed me.
And then have a smoke!
My history teacher showed us this and he replayed it like four times because we were all laughing after the original. He so forgot that the bill cussed 😂
Well why not teach kids about executive orders?
Kenan screaming "Aah, you black-ass... !" at 2:06. Gets me every time.
YUP 😂😂
Me too!!!
LMAOOO
Bruh I thought he said jack-ass at first ngl 😂
How didnt I notice that 🤣😭
"Look at the Midterm elections, people clearly don't want this....AWW YA BLACK A***"...... I'm in tears lol
Bold 4tress I'm just seeing this and I'm crying too!!!
That was rhe funniest part!
2:03
I just passed a turd so large that I did a double-take when I saw it and thought it was a dead Dachshund in the toilet.
🤣🤣🤣
I'm an executive order, and I pretty much just happen"
*smokes a cigarette*
Its a joint
That's it!
Kenan was brilliant in this sketch. Totally nailed the original voice of the cartoon, and perfect comedic timing.
I agreed he has a decent singing voice. Funny as hell!
Kenan sounds just like the guy from the actual cartoon.
Melissa0774 yeah 😂
He doesn't and you know this
Nah.
He truly does.
I thought he sounded like Dave Chappelle when he was imitating Rick James.
"Ah, ya black ass!" LMFAOO
+TheTop20freak That was the best part. LOL!!
I love that SNL trusted (accurately!) that more than 40 years after Schoolhouse Rock's debut, the American public would still remember all the cartoons.
The Simpsons kept it in the general consciousness.
and yet they introduce the sketch by saying they'll be returning to an episode of schoolhouse rock, when schoolhouse rock was made to be shown between episodes of other shows. it wasn't a show on its own back in the day.
@@kyshtym Ha, true!!
I love it when he ducks into his costume to "read himself". XD
"My legs! They were made of paper!"
Ow! I think I landed on my keys!
i read that right as it happened
The 1flym It’s funny cause it’s true
life imitates spongebob
Who else is watching this while wearing a jock strap?
Jay Pharaoh does a damn good Obama Impression.
Jay is hittin on all 8 cylinders.
+Arvo Luskie Jay Pharaoh? V12 Slr.
+MARIOBRO How can you tell?
More like W16.
Definition
"I'm a national emergency, and I pretty much just happen."
😂
This is even funnier now
Oh my sweet summer child
it is " I'm a executive order, and I pretty much just happen"
@@bridgettewalker3739 haha
2:43 I love how he has to check.
This is how I learned how a bill becomes a law
Same here my teacher showed this to the whole class
+S4mLee Productions My teacher didn't want to get in trouble, but she referred us to it lol
The social studies teacher in my school showed this to the 5th graders, and up (I don't know exactly which grades he showed it to, and I also don't want to give away my age).
Except an executive order is not a bill...
Well, you obviously know he showed it to the 5th graders, so I'm guessing you'er in 5th grade. which would make you around 10 or 11.
"Look at the midterm elections people clearly don't want this, Oh you black ass" lmao every time
I rewinded it like 5 times
LOOOOOL
I rewound it about 10 times and I’m still Laughing😂
Kenan Thompson can make us laugh just by falling down a flight of stairs.
“Ah my legs they were made of paper!”
Pure gold
1:37 i'm an executive order and i pretty much just happen. I died
you know you're screwed for your history test tomorrow when you're watching this to study
+Emily Rose Especially considering this video has nothing to do with history.
+Trey Warnock the test was on the basic way the U.S. government functions, including the difference between a bill and a law. And I received a 98% on it.
+Emily Rose Very nice! Congrats!
Emily Rose i know this is 2 years late but great job on the test!
My life tho
2:07 “Ow you blackass!” Underrated
"I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill
And I got pushed off of Capitol Hill"
"Well I was explaining how the White House work the old fashioned way
Then Obama pushed me 3 times off with nothing to say."
"So it seems I'll never be a LAW, but hope and pray that I will,
But today, I will still be a bill..."
Im just picturing Kenan singing this and dying
These lyrics are great. They shoulda used these
Still one of the best SNL skits of the last few years. Clever, funny and political without being divisive, overly simple or biased. It's what most of their skits should aspire for.
well either that or orange man bad!
That's because the completely agrees with your inherent bias. There's no such thing as an unbiased viewpoint.
@@juliuscaesar5397 Ageed. And even if it was possible, this is POLITICAL satire. POLITICAL. By definition it has to be bias
@@juliuscaesar5397even yours
Either this sketch or that game show sketch "Republican or Not".
The animated segment were the Bill falls down the steps gets me every time.
1:18 I swear I heard him say “WOODROW WILSON!”
2:55 its heartwarming to see the executive order being concerned for the bill 😂
Watched this in Gov today. Better than the original.
l-lewd
we had to watch this for history class. wish we watched this version
FizzyFlive avf same
My teacher showed us both lmao
Jd
“Ah my sweet, Woodrow Wilson!” How did that get no laughs. Guess there’s no history nerds in the audience.
Edit: well I guess I don’t know what joke I thought was funny four years ago about Wilson. But thanks for the likes, I guess?
'AH MY SWEET WENDELL WILLKIE!' would have been funnier. Worked on Bugs Bunny.
Because there needs to be some pre-understood context for the joke to be funny. What does woodrow wilson mean in the anatomy of a bill? If I say, I feel ripped off like Abraham lincoln in the Theater. The joke has some context that made it funny (that being, Abraham lincoln got shot in a theater).
I just assumed he meant P*nis
@@johnpijano4786 well he was a president and signed atleast one anti-immigration bill into law, he was also a terrible president
Please explain this for non-US people :)
“Ah! My legs! They were made of paper!”
Best line
Probably their most cutting satire of Obama during the whole 8 years
Try their only....
Corey Miller Yeah, competence is pretty hard to make fun of. It left out the Senate changing the rules for Obama to stop legislation, so it’s biting but not even close to why executive orders were necessary to get anything done.
@@lookbovine and its not like trump doesn't spam them
Trump has issued more executive orders in one term then Obama did in both
And Obama is still worse....somehow?
@@corey9857 you obviously didn't watch snl back then
They critiqued him at every point, and the only reason they critique trump so much is because he fuckw up every other week
@@jidk6565 I see you beat him so bad he deleted his comments. Lol.
"Oh, that's adorable. You still think that's how government works."
"Boy! You really have to climb a lot of steps to get to this capitol building in Washington DC!"
That hits different in 2021...
Uhh.. Why? Because those dudes stormed the capitol? What does that have to do with how many steps there are?
No. It really doesn't hit different.
🎶"I'm an executive order and I pretty much just happen"🎶. 😂😂😂😂
My legs! They were made of paper!
I found waldo
Nice, I didn't expect a Corridor Digital fan in a history video!
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
I know that's right!😂👀👀
AJ Traynor lol
my friend was wearing that shirt today and i said the same thing
the protests today make me think of this and now it’s gonna be stuck in my head for another 6 months
same prison mike
Prison Mike, what's prison like?
2:06 *LMAO with Keenan's reaction!!!*
1:12 Keenan literally has a CRYING over here!!! Why didn't I see this live? Lord please don't take me by laughing over here tonight!!!
Im getting hungry looking at the bill lol....looks like a burrito to me!
Same...yum yum 🌯🌯🌯
Can’t unseen
😂
OH! I bet EVERY black actor dressed up as a giant, rolled-up, sentient piece of paper looks like a burrito to you! Racist.
@@weezact7 woah easy there tiger. Who said anything about him being Black.
0:24 Kenan Thompson sings just like the voice of Bill of School House Rock in that clip.
Fun fact: The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order.
Kenan looks like he's about to burst into laughter every time he says/sings something.
I know I cracked up.
“Or grant legal status to 5 million undocumented immigrants” *WHAT*
except unlike what the song says now it'll just die because congress is too lazy to go through the same shit again
@@taloob493 they did take it to the corts in the end they found that Trump had to keep not inforcing the law (Acts of Congress) because Obama had refused to enforce the law.
@@hens0w @taloob That is why the only solution is Civil War. This has nothing to do with politics. It is us and them. The elites vs the common people, and we need to send the political elites to hell.
@@joelweymouthtais You're actually a fascist, my dude.
P.S. Undocumented immigrants are, in fact, very much "common people."
Who is here after the Capitol Hill Breakin
Ha that is why I checked the comments.
Me
I had the original Schoolhouse Rock song stuck in my head the day before. Super spooky. But yes, that’s why I’m here lol
Here before and often. Love this sketch.
It wasn't a break in they were trying to let Bill in.
"I think I landed on my keys." is such an under appreciated line
One time a government teacher of mine asked "How does a bill become a law?" It was one of those "short answer" response questions, and for the answer I put "bribery" lol
LMAOOO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
that would be funny if it happened
@@yipchad2248 it’s called a rider and you can do it
I find this statement 2 years later and must ask: did the teacher give you credit?
“I’m an executive order and I pretty much just happen” 😂
I’m not alone, I die every time I watch that. 😂😂😂 To think everyone says the SNL only picks on Republicans
3:01: Last one, oh no! The bill has been rolled over until the ground!
Ah, that was hilarious! Keenan yelling, “Oh, you black ass…” as he rolled down the steps was so unexpected, I sputtered before I lol’d. Such silliness😂👏🏽👏🏽.
" That's cute you still think that's how government works "
OH! MY LEG! IT WAS MADE OF PAPER!
"boy, you really got to climb a bunch of steps to get to the congress"
Gerald Ford: *Vietnam Flashbacks*
This just becomes increasingly relevant comedy over time
Heh, that 'reading myself' bit was a really clever visual pun.
I thought so too ^.^
Keenan's talent is that he can make anyone who's on stage with him look 10x better than they are. I think he's also hilarious
“You still think that’s how government works”😂🔥
look at the face he made at 1:50
Every scene with Kenan cracked me up! Like how he keeps getting pushed down the steps and climbs up all disoriented!
1:11
2:06
3:00
Ow my legs!!
They were made of PAPER!
2:50 is me when I exercise..
At 2:07 - Keenan saying something: Ohh, you black ass...." - good thing he couldn't finish THAT sentence 😂🤣😂
At the time of writing, Joe Biden has written 42 executive orders in his first 10 days of presidency. This skit aged like a fine wine
Go big or go Home!
Boe Jiden
But the called Trump a tyrant even though it took him 8 months to get 42 executive orders
Let go Brandon
Trump did 220 orders and a total of 894 executive actions. No one wants to hear it. It's not a Democrat or Republican thing, it's a "Congress can't get anything done" thing
Dude I watched this in 8th grade history lol.
+TheLaprasDuck lol same
+Marcy Peetrangavens me too
Me too
Same
Omg me to
"Look at the mid-term elections people clearly don't want this"
y e s
1:05 the arm in the shot tho
💀
I remember watching "how a bill becomes a law" when I was in elementary school. That was good times back then
“Aww, that’s adorable. You still think that’s how government works.”
My thoughts exactly.
Aw man that song was my jam back in school
"My sweet Widrow Wilson." hahahaha
Lmfao!!!! At 2:06 "Ah you black ass!"
The original song has been engraved in my head for a long time
Saltine Boi same here
In 2:26, notice how the music starts up late
Can we talk about the fact that this has more views than the actual video
0:13 *really* aged well. 2021 be like that. :(
We had to learn the original one in class several years ago and I just found this
Jay really has Obama down to a science.
Nails pretty much every impression he does
1:45 Who here thought of Jay Cutler?
"I'm an executive order and I pretty much just happen..." has been stuck in my head for years now.
Hilarious! That's the funniest thing they've done on "SNL" in a long, long time.
I laughed so hard while watching this, I had to cover my mouth so I wouldn't wake the neighbors!
2:19, Mr.President, is this constitutional?
This was played in my government class after we watched the original one!! And it was hilarious!!!!!!
They allowed you to watch a video with smoking in it? shame on them!
@@ericamcrae1610 Touche'!
I didn’t like how he he it in his right hand so close to burning the kid.
1:36 "i'm an executive order and I pretty much just happen"
yet he creates holidays
We're doing School House Rock Live for our school play, we're singing this song lol
That moment when you realize the kid is Phineas Flynn
Omg Kenan's impression here was spot on!
I was at Capitol hill this week for a DC trip, I almost fell down those steps
the xylophone as he fell was a nice touch... :')
Funnier than the skit(mind you it is hilarious), is that doing a school house rock bit on how this is illegal, and one of the many reasons why it is bad for the country is what we need in this day and age. People don't actually get involved in national matters and politics, they just like to appear like they do on facebook and twitter. They eat up whatever the left wing news tells them, and repeat it. Most people don't even care. We have come to the point where we need school house rock to explain to normal people, what the country is becoming with Barack Obama as president, or they won't have the capacity or attention span to understand it.
There is no such thing as "left wing news" hahahaha
For the first part, Since I have too much work today and I spend far too much time fighting on the internet- I will quote a comment I made lastnight. It is related to you mentioning "jobs they are already doing".
Quote:
They forgot to mention the fact that now the illegals are legal, companies will be more willing to hire them and it will still be at lower wages(compared to citizens) thus taking away jobs from American citizens who already pay higher taxes then the newly legalized immigrants will. Less tax income, less jobs for American citizens and more social expenditure on health care. Tell me again how this is good for anyone but the immigrants and their families? I keep hearing the "they are already working" excuse, but what you need to remember is that they are now legal, and can now say "take this job and shove it" because they can now find work at reputable companies who did not break the law before the EO was signed.."
As far as liberal news networks...are you crazy? The big 3 alone are liberal leaning..MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN(Depending on ratings), and I don't even want to get into the amount of liberal newspapers...Although I will post a quote from Wikipedia, on media bias from a book that was written in 2002. That's 2002, back when being liberal wasn't the cool thing to do. It has gotten MUCH worse. With all of the major news papers being liberal;
"Jim A. Kuypers of Dartmouth College investigated the issue of media bias in the 2002 book Press Bias and Politics. In this study of 116 mainstream US papers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, Kuypers stated that the mainstream press in America tends to favor liberal viewpoints. They argued that reporters who they thought were expressing moderate or conservative points of view were often labeled as holding a minority point of view. Kuypers said he found liberal bias in the reporting of a variety of issues including race, welfare reform, environmental protection, and gun control.[55]"
Finn Boone Also Finn, It is not the amount of executive orders that is troubling, or illegal(no one disagrees with executive orders as a rule they disagree with the EO itself). It is the context of those executive orders and what he is using them for. The left are pretending the president is being obstructed by congress so he needs to do this. Well we are forgetting one thing- congress is there for exactly that reason. Congress represents the the American people, not Barack Obama. Congress job is to prevent terrible bills from being passed. Obama side steps and makes up his own laws as he goes along.
Here is another comment I made yesterday to a liberal playing the whole "Obama can't do anything" schtick. Which I get the impression you believe too:
"LOL! Keep drinking the kool-aid. You are just another mindless sheep who is listening to the Whitehouse talking points. If you still honestly believe that the GOP are blocking the presidents changes for a better future then you deserve this president. Obamas favorite two sayings are that 1. "Oh I just heard about this" and 2. "The republicans are playing politics"..EVERY failure that the president acknowledged he blamed it on someone else and then claimed they are playing partisan politics. How moronic can you people be to not see the irony in him lying about his failure by blaming it on the other side and then claim that they are the ones playing partisan political games.
You people just keep eating it up. Do us a favor and don't vote unless you can think for yourself."
John Barnes Is that a joke?
John Barnes You are the type of person I am referencing in the OP.
“And I pretty much just happen”
-some executive order
This was absolute comedy GOLD. John Belushi would be proud.