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Is Obama too inscrutable to impersonate? (OH PLEASE!)
Salon ^ | September 29, 2012

Posted on 09/30/2012 4:43:24 AM PDT by SMGFan

Obama's blend of cool and reserve has proven tough to imitate, and it's dragging down "Saturday Night Live"

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TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
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No they need a sense of humor, fairness, equal opportunity. Lorne has no interest in that.
1 posted on 09/30/2012 4:43:26 AM PDT by SMGFan
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I think I’m going to be sick.


2 posted on 09/30/2012 4:46:28 AM PDT by Blennos
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Chevy Chase got famous by imitating Gerald Ford.

Didn’t look like him.
Didn’t sound like him.
He just made fun of him in a crude and unsubtle way.

It worked.


3 posted on 09/30/2012 4:49:02 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (ua)
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To: SMGFan

INSCRUTABLE
for those of you , as Rush would say , Rio Linda or Port St. Lucie

Adjective:
Impossible to understand or interpret; impenetrable; mysterious.
Synonyms:
impenetrable - mysterious - enigmatic - incomprehensible


4 posted on 09/30/2012 4:50:38 AM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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( Obama's blend of cool and reserve has proven tough to imitate, and it's dragging down "Saturday Night Live" )

Mack Daddy Candy meets with the pimp with a limp.
5 posted on 09/30/2012 4:51:36 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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Saturday night live hasn’t been funny in years , it totally sucks


6 posted on 09/30/2012 4:51:43 AM PDT by Venturer
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Rush does a really good impression of him — it’s always an overly-officious, knee-jerk blatherer of platitudes.
That would work.
OK; now I expect to see something like that on SNL.
...(((crickets)))...


7 posted on 09/30/2012 4:53:23 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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I do an impersonation of him every morning.

Well not quite, I don't use the punchbowl!

8 posted on 09/30/2012 4:57:08 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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This guy doesn’t find him too ‘inscrutable’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rot1yguplr8


9 posted on 09/30/2012 5:00:26 AM PDT by RetSignman
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R.I.P. Steve Bridges.


10 posted on 09/30/2012 5:04:09 AM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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Is Obama too inscrutable to impersonate?

No, like Salon, Obama transcends parody. The best parody of Obama is Obama.

11 posted on 09/30/2012 5:27:09 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Kafka in the throes of a demonic possession could not have come up with the "tuck rule".)
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SNL is also just parody of itself...and a bad one at that.


12 posted on 09/30/2012 5:54:15 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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NObody’s going to impersonate Obama. It would be the same as impersonating a homo.


13 posted on 09/30/2012 5:58:27 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama loved the poor so much, he created millions more.)
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Eddie Murphy could do a good Obama if he wanted.


14 posted on 09/30/2012 6:15:31 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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It’s simple really. The cast and supervisors are in love with theOne. When you’re in love, you overlook idiocyncracies and annoying habits of the object of your affection.


15 posted on 09/30/2012 6:29:15 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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Impersonating Nobama would necessarily involve mimicking those phony accents he put on - depending on the crowd he is jacking up.

That would be "racist", condescending, pandering, and involve having mostly chumps and morons in the audience.

No comedian could get away with that kind of phony-baloney!

16 posted on 09/30/2012 6:29:15 AM PDT by Gritty (Obama's populism's so crude it channels not Teddy Roosevelt so much as Hugo Chavez-C.Krauthammer)
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Actually, it would help SNL alive a lot if they actually wanted to make fun of him. Vacations, golf, the chin thing he does, the speeches full of I, I, Me, Me, My. But those would hurt.


17 posted on 09/30/2012 6:48:28 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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Guess they can’t find an actor with 2 faces that can talk out of both sides of both mouths!


18 posted on 09/30/2012 6:56:35 AM PDT by nclaurel
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Great humor is always based on truth...they scramble every day to hide the truth about obama.

In fact the truth about obama is so ugly its not funny........hmm kind of parallels that muhamed guy.

19 posted on 09/30/2012 7:01:51 AM PDT by Kakaze (I want The Republic back !)
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Barf. No, the problem is that they only copy his hokey mannerisms. They don’t mock his content.

Because if they mocked what h e actually says, their audience would vote Romney.

And that is not why they are on the air.


20 posted on 09/30/2012 7:04:04 AM PDT by Yaelle
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