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  • @LivLaRaj
    @LivLaRaj 3 года назад +121

    My favorite line in this is "lack of agreement between subject and predicate..."

  • @theemperor7963
    @theemperor7963 3 года назад +551

    First time seeing one where Obama is present but before becoming the president. Ancient history

  • @rutherfrogp.wilmington4907
    @rutherfrogp.wilmington4907 4 года назад +585

    Darrel Hammond was the most underrated cast member ever on SNL. He did some amazing impressions but kind of flew under the radar famewise

    • @avecmoi9429
      @avecmoi9429 3 года назад +4

      I think we would all like to met him and see the impressions up close and ask him about those.

    • @AngelicaRodriguez-mb2ld
      @AngelicaRodriguez-mb2ld 3 года назад +14

      I thought he was going to be the one doing Trump impressions because his is SO spot on.

    • @opaljk4835
      @opaljk4835 3 года назад +2

      Angelica Rodriguez I think I read that they didn’t really tell him that he was out as Trump and it was kind of a huge blow to him.

    • @nachtegaelw5389
      @nachtegaelw5389 3 года назад +5

      His McCain impression is quite good!

    • @GamerGuy51
      @GamerGuy51 3 года назад +3

      @@AngelicaRodriguez-mb2ld he totally broke down when Alec Baldwin got the job...

  • @CHilla415
    @CHilla415 3 года назад +30

    It's funny/weird seeing Will Forte play such the straight man in a sketch. I also love McCain's shrug at 6:49 lol

  • @kornei2007
    @kornei2007 4 года назад +196

    3:03 "that I and others...WHO HAVE OPPOSED THIS WAR FROM THE BEGINNING..." this is PRICELESS :)))))))))))))))))))))))

    • @FinancialFreedomFinder
      @FinancialFreedomFinder 3 года назад +1

      In reality... m.ruclips.net/video/YtiJqng9jy8/видео.html

    • @thisguy9819
      @thisguy9819 3 года назад +5

      @@FinancialFreedomFinder they were talking about the war in Iraq🇮🇶, not a retaliatory response from a strike from Iran🇮🇷 to Israel🇮🇱.
      She was a New York Senator on 9/11 of course she was in support of the war in Iraq, your clip had absolutely nothing to do with that though.

    • @ellieb.4468
      @ellieb.4468 3 года назад +7

      Cant stand Hillary

    • @ankursharma9019
      @ankursharma9019 2 года назад +2

      @@thisguy9819 nothing in common between 9/11 and the Iraq war

    • @byanymeansnecessary9329
      @byanymeansnecessary9329 2 года назад +1

      @@ankursharma9019 alot of these idiots refuse to get that thru their skulls.

  • @MrCurlyBill
    @MrCurlyBill 3 года назад +78

    The look on McCain's face while waiting for Petraeus to review his book breaks my heart

    • @sisenor4091
      @sisenor4091 2 года назад

      Mine too. I hope he found it funny.

    • @tidefanyankee2428
      @tidefanyankee2428 2 года назад +3

      I read that book, it was rather good.

    • @byanymeansnecessary9329
      @byanymeansnecessary9329 2 года назад +1

      @@tidefanyankee2428 no it wasn't, it was the rantings of a senile white supremacist

  • @codanh1
    @codanh1 3 года назад +211

    can somebody who edits these make the ending theme song LOUDER please?

  • @tuckerbowen4626
    @tuckerbowen4626 3 года назад +145

    ah yes, back when they still had to exaggerate politicians' lies for comedic effect

  • @johnnyhudson2195
    @johnnyhudson2195 2 года назад +241

    The Obama becoming president joke was gold. SNL had no way of knowing he would win over Clinton and McCain.

    • @mrnobody6447
      @mrnobody6447 2 года назад +12

      Really!? There was so much propaganda even my small town video store had a "documentary" about him before he was even seriously considered. He was no different than before the last one.

    • @sws212
      @sws212 2 года назад +24

      It aired April 2008, it was basically him and Clinton head to head and Clinton was as bland as she ever was.

    • @smkh2890
      @smkh2890 2 года назад +16

      The very first time I heard Obama speak, I thought, this gentleman will go far!
      He didn't sound like a preacher, which for a Black politician was a new thing.

    • @tidefanyankee2428
      @tidefanyankee2428 2 года назад +4

      @@smkh2890 It depended on the setting/circumstances/situation and who his audience was. He can sound like a preacher.

    • @jadapinkett1656
      @jadapinkett1656 Год назад

      Clinton was losing and the GOP was doomed by Bush.

  • @crebegea
    @crebegea 8 лет назад +164

    Will Forte and Amy Poehler at their best!

  • @kingofthefountain3091
    @kingofthefountain3091 3 года назад +111

    Compared to current SNL, this is brilliant Mark Twainesque satire. This is so smart and is actually critical of the powerful.

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 3 года назад +1

      ... nah.

    • @kingofthefountain3091
      @kingofthefountain3091 3 года назад +2

      @Waldo Wall who Trump? If he were anywhere close to the most powerful person in the world do you think clowning the shit out of him would be the global pastime? Don’t you think the most powerful person in the world wouldn’t allow himself to be publicly ridiculed 24/7?

    • @arjunwali9885
      @arjunwali9885 3 года назад +13

      haha ik what you mean. but i think its bc trump literally acts like a satire, so their jokes just sound like copies of what he says. i mean the dude literally stared at an eclipse without protective glasses. thats hard to satirize

    • @arjunwali9885
      @arjunwali9885 3 года назад +8

      @Waldo Wall idk chief, he's been a serial cheater, fraudster, and racist forever. look up his actions toward the central park five and leading the birther campaign. not attacking you just noting some stuff

    • @arjunwali9885
      @arjunwali9885 3 года назад +8

      @Waldo Wall i mean he was also court in 1979 i think for housing discrimination against black people, then the birther campaign against the first non-white POTUS ever. so yah he's always been like this

  • @adoredpariah
    @adoredpariah 6 лет назад +48

    I have to say this is the best cold open that I have seen from SNL, I just wanted it to continue all day. Fantastic.

  • @aegystierone8505
    @aegystierone8505 8 лет назад +99

    The Cold Pink depiction was spot on!

  • @nachtegaelw5389
    @nachtegaelw5389 3 года назад +11

    Lol at the amount of badges on Petraeus’ uniform!

  • @TarekSaazeb028
    @TarekSaazeb028 4 года назад +27

    4:31 I died laughing xD Bill Hader is a gem!

  • @MrGksarathy
    @MrGksarathy 3 года назад +9

    Man, I remember this shit from when I was 10-11. It was around the time I first started reading magazines.

  • @brolysujay
    @brolysujay 2 года назад +27

    After 7 years AND this still makes me laugh.

    • @m3gAnac0nda
      @m3gAnac0nda Год назад

      Dude u know this is from April 2008 , right? Jesus Christ, unbelievable. It's sad tbh

  • @Dadutta
    @Dadutta 8 лет назад +49

    GREAT SKIT !

  • @seanfeeley5985
    @seanfeeley5985 3 года назад +12

    Wow never saw this till today. Blown away. Really captures the insanity of the iraq war incrementalism. Like a short version of film "in the loop"

  • @burningknight7
    @burningknight7 7 лет назад +365

    people underestimate will forte so much

    • @Dominian1
      @Dominian1 7 лет назад +8

      No way! When he appeared on Flight of the Conchords it was epic. Most people just aren't very sensual to that entire "awkward"-funny and he does it so well. He is the perfect McGruber, also. I wonder if he'd be good in drama.

    • @NeuroticPixieSlasher
      @NeuroticPixieSlasher 7 лет назад +8

      Check out "Last man on Earth". He's starring in it, and it has a bit of Sudekis

    • @ragnar97
      @ragnar97 6 лет назад +2

      +NeuroticPixieSlasher isn't he also the creator, a writer and a producer on the show?

    • @BlackAdder665
      @BlackAdder665 5 лет назад +3

      I never underestimated him, I don't underestimate him and I will never understimate him.

    • @changedgalaxyuniverse3200
      @changedgalaxyuniverse3200 3 года назад +1

      I know

  • @jonathancampbell5231
    @jonathancampbell5231 7 лет назад +197

    This sketch is funnier if you don't know the context behind Hillarys' sniper fire comment (had to learn what that was after the fact); first couple of times I watched it, it sounded like she was saying she had a sniper on Petraeus right then and there.

    • @vishaltripathy3620
      @vishaltripathy3620 5 лет назад +2

      i don't know about the comment. can you elaborate?

    • @jonathancampbell5231
      @jonathancampbell5231 5 лет назад +91

      She claimed to be under sniper fire while visiting Iraq (EDIT: Bosnia) but video emerged showing this was false, so in the sketch she is trying to say that the video didn't catch it because sniper fire can be very, very quiet especially on film.

    • @magiclion
      @magiclion 5 лет назад +2

      @@jonathancampbell5231 Bosnia?

    • @jonathancampbell5231
      @jonathancampbell5231 5 лет назад +12

      Yes, you are right; it was Bosnia. My mistake.

    • @stranraerwal
      @stranraerwal 5 лет назад +7

      Jonathan Campbell: why is the sketch funnier if I don't know the context...? I thought, it was just the other way round..???!!!

  • @budidarmawan2304
    @budidarmawan2304 5 лет назад +21

    I thought McGrubber quit military years ago...

  • @aigeh1326
    @aigeh1326 7 лет назад +26

    Hammond really rocked McCain's role! Next to Sean and Bill Clinton I say...

  • @malays4027
    @malays4027 5 лет назад +19

    They forgot the part where General Petraeus actually fainted dieing his testimony!

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 4 года назад +15

    Thank you for the documentary.

  • @inftube
    @inftube 4 года назад +13

    this is actually amazing

  • @andypandytanat
    @andypandytanat 8 лет назад +14

    sudeikis is wearing miller
    prequell to TLMOE

  • @alexwright8585
    @alexwright8585 7 лет назад +60

    The guy doing Petraeus looks eerily like John Cleese.

    • @skinnerman100
      @skinnerman100 4 года назад +4

      No he fucking doesnt

    • @matthewrabel5035
      @matthewrabel5035 3 года назад +1

      Nah, Will Forte has a much sharper chin and shorter head

    • @ellieb.4468
      @ellieb.4468 3 года назад

      I can see it, it’s the eyes

    • @dashcroft1892
      @dashcroft1892 2 года назад

      More like Brian Forster aka “Chris Partridge”

  • @wilvanwyk4478
    @wilvanwyk4478 2 года назад +5

    Bill Hader is just fantastic! 🤣

  • @Scratchingforcash
    @Scratchingforcash 2 года назад +4

    I love how his last name is “Miller”
    I’m going to watch “we’re the Millers” now lol

    • @clarebearr5357
      @clarebearr5357 2 года назад +2

      …also Mike Miller from Last Man on Earth.

  • @winters8804
    @winters8804 3 года назад +25

    Surprised snl still has this up lol

  • @jiajianhou426
    @jiajianhou426 3 года назад +5

    Is the chairman played by Andy Samberg? He seriously looks like judge Marshall Eriksen lol

    • @romanramirez7847
      @romanramirez7847 2 года назад

      It is Andy. And I do admit, he looks very freakish in the makeup.

  • @metallixro
    @metallixro 6 лет назад +41

    Greatest SNL generation !

  • @MrGerdbrecht
    @MrGerdbrecht 5 лет назад +4

    lol scrubs janitor in the background

  • @Fenrisson
    @Fenrisson Год назад +2

    Patreus' poker face is the best thing.

  • @theanti-monitor6816
    @theanti-monitor6816 4 года назад +5

    Live from New York , it is Saturn day ice!!! 9:22

  • @nenadcvijetic3227
    @nenadcvijetic3227 5 лет назад +327

    jokes are funny but still no americans punished for war crimes and breaking UN law

    • @ovrdozzzz
      @ovrdozzzz 4 года назад +1

      Nenad Cvijetić.. Ya Ya Ya..... Blah Blah Blah..... Yada Yada Yada..... YOU JOKER 🥴🤦‍♂️

    • @owenchau4719
      @owenchau4719 4 года назад +22

      @@ovrdozzzz i believe you are an uniformed buffoon

    • @ovrdozzzz
      @ovrdozzzz 4 года назад +2

      Owen Chau.....and the good news my bastard son is that I'm not even American....🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Charango123quena
      @Charango123quena 4 года назад +9

      yup ... just seems to matter when its an American getting killed

    • @ovrdozzzz
      @ovrdozzzz 4 года назад +1

      Sh.....you have to get better at a retort, can't use the same lines as I did.....duhhhh.....🤣🤣

  • @Anfubvinch
    @Anfubvinch 7 лет назад +52

    How good is Will Forte ?? Wow

    • @chrisbanbury
      @chrisbanbury 3 года назад

      He plays a great straight man here.

  • @sairabaig3118
    @sairabaig3118 2 года назад +2

    This is a classic.

  • @aliciacharles271
    @aliciacharles271 2 года назад +1

    that was soo clever and funny af

  • @Kowasi
    @Kowasi 7 лет назад +7

    …like a bugle sounding on a forsaken battlefield…

  • @rudrarishi2523
    @rudrarishi2523 4 года назад

    Excellent channel, SNL.

  • @Kasino80
    @Kasino80 9 лет назад +43

    Byrd was elected from 1959 until his death in 2010??? That shouldn't be allowed to happen. I mean, no matter which party you're from.

  • @jessif.
    @jessif. Год назад +2

    I just came here to hear Will Forte say, "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!"

  • @panobiektywnyKielce
    @panobiektywnyKielce 3 года назад +2

    Genialne. Mają talent.

  • @chazblank2717
    @chazblank2717 Год назад +1

    As soon as I heard “oldest living chairman…” I just knew they were gonna cut away to Bill Hader 😂

  • @845835
    @845835 3 года назад +7

    How great would it be if hearings such as these were this honest.

  • @bradfromthevalley
    @bradfromthevalley 3 года назад +1

    remember when hagen daz was big...it was near the age of bon bon, right on the heals of the klondike they seemed to come through a peppermint patty. Ever Hear of the Comedian he had Good Humor..

  • @liversuccess1420
    @liversuccess1420 3 года назад +1

    "frequent use of non-words" LMAO

  • @wlodell
    @wlodell 3 года назад +9

    Sums up the idiocy of our elected officials fairly accurately.

  • @lajosgoell609
    @lajosgoell609 8 лет назад +113

    Why did Hillary Clinton ask about sniper fire?

    • @SirSoz
      @SirSoz 8 лет назад +163

      Because she lied about 'being under sniper fire' when landing in Bosnia, when actually she got off the plane and talked to people for an hour afterwards

    • @utar88utar
      @utar88utar 6 лет назад +64

      wow... the good old times of SNL when you could make fun of hillary clinton.
      now it's just PC cesspool. shame on you SNL, shame on you 'lefties'

    • @celsopinheiro
      @celsopinheiro 6 лет назад +57

      they have a better circus and a better clown to mock now...

    • @corkygobshite9941
      @corkygobshite9941 5 лет назад +3

      bitter much, kimmel black?

    • @bryanaa196
      @bryanaa196 5 лет назад +1

      @@corkygobshite9941 he obviously is.

  • @modernsophist
    @modernsophist 3 года назад +4

    9:08-9:13
    Best part 😂😂😂

  • @econojon
    @econojon 3 года назад +1

    I didn't read any of these books. Was the assessment accurate?

  • @andreslinares6429
    @andreslinares6429 3 года назад +1

    Never realized code pink was in SNL 😂

  • @chuckecheese3161
    @chuckecheese3161 2 года назад

    It's like a current situation wow

  • @dalereynolds7638
    @dalereynolds7638 4 года назад +12

    As an ex-patriate American of 40 years standing, I am very proud of SNL, one of our best recurring products and standards.

  • @eezyclsmooth9035
    @eezyclsmooth9035 8 месяцев назад +1

    When did MaGrubber become a 4 star general?
    Is that "Christopher Guest" sitting behind the gen.?

  • @princevegeta8882
    @princevegeta8882 3 года назад

    Long shot but who is the Actor who is behind Will Forte ?(not sudeikis).

  • @rudierude3558
    @rudierude3558 3 года назад +20

    SNL female cast members have mastered the art of Hillary Clinton 😂

    • @Lin3r
      @Lin3r 3 года назад +2

      was it in your reccomend too this day ? =D

    • @rudierude3558
      @rudierude3558 3 года назад +1

      @@Lin3r yeah youtube algorithms thought I should see it 🤣

    • @johnsmith1926
      @johnsmith1926 2 года назад

      So much so that they scare me even more than the original..

  • @TimKyoutube
    @TimKyoutube 4 года назад

    i'm right but this was so so funny

  • @xl000
    @xl000 4 года назад

    It' s Tandy from Last man on Earth !

  • @MissMarinaCapri
    @MissMarinaCapri 2 года назад +4

    Isn’t it amazing how the science fiction of the past as well as the comedy seems to foretell the future, I say a resounding YES !

  • @The_Infamous_Boogyman
    @The_Infamous_Boogyman 11 месяцев назад +1

    Totally misread this and thought it was an Oscar pistorius 😅

  • @JeevatSingh
    @JeevatSingh 6 лет назад +9

    The guy is gonna be the next president, no offence

  • @conradsieber7883
    @conradsieber7883 Год назад

    Brilliance...

  • @Sold.Out.For.Freeee
    @Sold.Out.For.Freeee 4 года назад +2

    darrell hammond you are a frikkin genius!!!!!!!!

  • @Evocati-Augusti
    @Evocati-Augusti 2 года назад +2

    who landed here from watching this last 2 weeks of Afghanistan news.

  • @darcymcnabb9259
    @darcymcnabb9259 3 года назад +11

    The sad horrible thing about this skit ....it's pretty much true to life . And all we do is laugh.

  • @vardellsfolly5200
    @vardellsfolly5200 5 лет назад +18

    Bill is a GOD AMONGST MORTALS!

  • @blaneharrison6341
    @blaneharrison6341 2 месяца назад

    Was he turning into an alien 😂

  • @bhadrajun
    @bhadrajun 4 года назад +5

    I'm watching this on December 28, 2019.

    • @RyanSmith-wo2pi
      @RyanSmith-wo2pi 3 года назад

      Apple bees and Best buy's and others come when cites hit 50000 demographics

  • @obazas
    @obazas 3 года назад +2

    As a guy from the Middle East I can’t agree more ☝️

  • @3prasg57
    @3prasg57 3 года назад +1

    u dont know who steals the oil huh ?! :D thats the REAL comedy

  • @JanetArogundade
    @JanetArogundade 4 года назад +6

    He's going to be the next President. No offence

  • @user-vp8sd4qd1x
    @user-vp8sd4qd1x 3 года назад +3

    Hillary got me 🤣

  • @mikaelbiilmann6826
    @mikaelbiilmann6826 2 года назад

    The first senator character sounds exactly like William Friedkin, director of "Chinatown" and "The Exorcist".

    • @fuzzybits410
      @fuzzybits410 2 года назад

      What an obscure reference, Mr. Gumby.

    • @mikaelbiilmann6826
      @mikaelbiilmann6826 2 года назад

      @@fuzzybits410 "My brrraiin huuurts! Are you the brain specialist???!"

  • @zainaman710
    @zainaman710 7 лет назад +4

    funny bcuz is true

  • @VandalAudi
    @VandalAudi 4 года назад +4

    I thought Patreus had a chance to run for the presidency,... in 2016.

  • @Scratchingforcash
    @Scratchingforcash 2 года назад +2

    Super close ringer for Pres. Obama

  • @mmadmoha782
    @mmadmoha782 8 лет назад +39

    im from iraq lol

  • @livingchrist261
    @livingchrist261 6 лет назад

    And there's no index.

  • @paveltkachev
    @paveltkachev 5 лет назад +2

    awesome, but don't understand joke with the sniper

    • @marksmitten4721
      @marksmitten4721 3 года назад +1

      Hilary once claimed she flew into Yugoslavia and got shit at by a sniper but on the videotape it didn’t happen mate

    • @marksmitten4721
      @marksmitten4721 3 года назад +1

      Shot I mean 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

    • @paveltkachev
      @paveltkachev 3 года назад

      @@marksmitten4721 nice, i got it )))

  • @livingadreamlife1428
    @livingadreamlife1428 2 года назад

    awesome script writing

  • @jayashreechakravarthy4949
    @jayashreechakravarthy4949 8 месяцев назад

    I command my overall thoughts about Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock to be shared with every person involved here. Hollywood, announce.

  • @wtfduud
    @wtfduud 7 лет назад

    Looks like that guy from Monty Python.

  • @alexijc.francis310
    @alexijc.francis310 7 лет назад +2

    I heaven' seen some thing make me laugh. For5min. Before

  • @johncarte340
    @johncarte340 3 года назад +6

    Did fred armison do black face for this?

    • @sieekakhan6761
      @sieekakhan6761 3 года назад +2

      No, they just did his ear and hair

  • @marianaxavier298
    @marianaxavier298 3 года назад

    turns out

  • @jesseludvigsen8995
    @jesseludvigsen8995 3 года назад +9

    They actually made fun of hillary! Different times

  • @rayfish007
    @rayfish007 2 года назад +5

    lol this is the SNL of old i miss.. shots fired at all sides. Make fun of everyone.

  • @ottobihrer732
    @ottobihrer732 3 месяца назад

    SNL should be part of the High School Curriculum.

  • @princevegeta8882
    @princevegeta8882 3 года назад

    I know Forte and Sudeikis but who plays the other Actor in the Military uniform?

  • @AnkitSingh-xl6pt
    @AnkitSingh-xl6pt 2 месяца назад

    The first to like this sketch must've been General Petraeus himself.

  • @jamielancaster01
    @jamielancaster01 3 года назад +4

    Even before he had been nominated SNL had predicted Obama’s win!

    • @abhishetty2637
      @abhishetty2637 3 года назад +2

      It was quite easy to predict, Obama has overwhelming mainstream support

  • @adamfrazer5150
    @adamfrazer5150 3 месяца назад

    A lot of death, a lot of suffering, a lot of profit, a lot of pocket's lined and resources stolen.
    But a sweet fast-food court.

  • @jackieh8881
    @jackieh8881 10 лет назад +2

    ahh war

  • @OMGz1122
    @OMGz1122 3 года назад

    What is a senator?

  • @joshuasummerville2976
    @joshuasummerville2976 3 года назад

    Truth

  • @Kerorofan1990
    @Kerorofan1990 3 года назад +7

    2008. When SNL apparently didn't have any black cast members, so you get Fred Armisen as Obama.

    • @ellieb.4468
      @ellieb.4468 3 года назад +1

      Yep, really sad!

    • @tateyambrose7290
      @tateyambrose7290 3 года назад

      But he was really good at Obama. Darrell Hammond used to do Jesse Jackson as well.

    • @Matt-vm9yw
      @Matt-vm9yw 2 года назад +1

      SNL obviously had black cast members in 2008. Why does it matter if the person doing the impression is black?
      If fred armisen does the best obama impression he should get the role whether hes black or not.

    • @samriddhigupta5514
      @samriddhigupta5514 Год назад

      I mean Fred Armisen isn't white he's Asian-Latino ( is it the right term?) and has facial features in which without much makeup he can do Obama impression.

  • @MJ-fj9yv
    @MJ-fj9yv 2 года назад

    Would’ve made it even more perfect….Paula Broadwell emerges from UNDER the table. 😂