Saturday Night habitable: Tina Fey/Carrie Underwood - VIDEOS

February 24th, 2008 | Category: Saturday Night Live

Cold Open (CNN Democratic Debate): After seeing all those rumors about adding a new cast member to specifically play Barack Obama, I had resigned myself to seeing a new black guy. Hey, don’t pretend you didn’t think the same thing. In my intellect, Fred Armisen never, ever entered into the equation, so suppose my surprise when Armisen popped up on screen next to Amy Poehler’s Hillary Clinton and was immediately identifiable as Obama. It was the ears and the super-serious look of concern, I think. that sketch was all about the some members of the “unbiased” media’s blatant negligence of Clinton. Yeah, the composition

was all right, but I spent most of my moment trying to figure out whether I liked Armisen as Obama. He had the look down, but only part of it. Obama’s frowny face was pretty spot-on, but what about his signature grin? And the voice didn’t work at all. Perhaps that will improve with duration, considering I don’t think it’s likely that Armisen expected that new role and didn’t have much date to intensely study Obama’s voice and mannerisms before the end of the writers’ strike.

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Original post by Annie Wu

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