Is it Time for SNL to Hire a New Obama Impersonator?

Lacey: "Fred does a great job. I can't beleive Obama complained, he should just be glad everyone forgot the comment he made about 57 states. "

He complained? Please, it was pretty clear that he's not at all unhappy that they don't have a good comic skewering him as well as Tina Fey skewered Gov Palin.

And no one has forgotten the 57 state comment, they just looked at it in context and don't think any reasonable person should care (he stumbled over a reply while jet lagged and mixed up saying 'I've visited 47 of the 50 states'). Sorta like when John McCain got a free pass when he spoke about the Iraq-Afghanistan border or forgot the name of the terrorist group funded by Iran.

buzzie, you are so right about MadTV. IN the beginning it was side-splitting funny at times but in the past few years it has become as bad as SNL.

I think perhaps that may be because they tend to give one comic more time rather than spread the skits among the cast. Unfortunately they don't always pick the best.

Oh, it's O.K. to do Palin all in good fun. The Chicago thug gets impersonated and he has a problem with it? Get to work Barack you won the election.What are you going to do? Sic the CIA and FBI after the guy? The "President elect" couldn't even leave a common guy like Joe the Plummer alone without sending dozens of his thugs out to try to destroy him.Boy maybe I better watch out know for his cronies for I have spoken out against the elected annointed ONE!

Marlin Hill is good. Fred Armison just is not good portraying Obama and they definitely need someone who does a better job. And as far as Andrew Sullivan, I think he's great!

he is a terrible actor, not just obama

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Fred does a great job. I can't beleive Obama complained, he should just be glad everyone forgot the comment he made about 57 states. At least Palin knows how many states there are. The media never would have let her or Hill off that easy.

One case of Affirmative Action deserves another I guess. Sorry Fred.

Lets face it, nothing funny about Obama.

The representations are like caritures. They throw everything out of proportion. That is why Tina Fey nail Palin. She could do the mannerism over the top.

Let's face it -the outrage is primarily due to Armisen being white. If they could find a black comedian that could make Obama funny then I say go for it but Obama himself isn't that amusing. Palin was a riot. Fey's funniest lines were when she reiterated what Palin said to Couric almost word for word. If Obama was that funny and Armisen nailed it he should stay - SNL has a long history of men impersonating women (anyone remember Janet Reno?) so I don't see how this is different. And for the person who said Obama is America's first affirmative action president please, tell me when YOU were at Harvard and Columbia and on Harvard's Law Review? Affirmative action gives people the opportunity - it is what they make of that opportunity that counts so unless YOU were at the top of YOUR class at the best Ivy League schools and a senator and president-elect I'd say you don't have much of an argument.

Marlin has the voice down almost perfectly. But the problem would be the lame writing by the SNL writers.

Marlin Hill no doubt

They need to hire Chris Rock. He could flame Obama.

They're probably going to loose the guy they have now. He isn't doing what Tina did for the ratings. It is all about ratings, right ABC?

Andrew Sullivan is probably the most annoyingly condenscending UK transplant to ever hit US shores. If he realized that no one really cares about his stilted opinions he would go hide and cry in a sand dune @ Herring Cove.

genlin,

I agree. His immitators are not as funny as he is. It's the ability to connect. In Palin's case, her inability to connect gave SNL a good basis for humor. SNL will need to find the disconnector for Obama and thwart Murdoch's notions of 'funny' to make a good Obama carricature. Most of us don't see the humor in exxagerated ears, studdering or trying to use language and phrases that are not divisive. Life's too serious right now, so SNL needs to make us laugh about the republican-caused plights we're experiencing.

Armisen isn't doing a very good job imitating Obama and overall he isn't very funny in any of the other skits he's been in anyway.

SNL should hire Tim Meadows back. He looks like Obama and he's always been good for a laugh. He's also about the same age as Obama.

Lorne Michaels should at least talk it over with Tim. If he can get Tina Fey back he can get Tim back.

Marlin Hill, Marlin Hill, Marlin Hill! He's the Brother, uhhh .. The Man! He's funny, I heard him on the day he was on WKLH in Milwaukee! SNL better look at him, because their days may be numbered! They need a new blood over there! They need to reflect everyone in the nation, not just living in NYC, much like ... uhh ... Mr. Obama's new cabinet ... I hope! Peace!!

His impersonations are totally unfunny and very unlike Obama. Obama drops the g's at the end of most of his "ing"s just like Palin, yet his impersonator never does that. Before the election, I just chalked it up to the fact that SNL producers are democrats and didn't want to make Obama look ridiculous before the election. They focused all their energy on making McCain and Palin look ridiculous (I admit, that wasn't hard to do) and pretty much left Obama alone.

SNL hasn't been funny since the first few seasons, so I'll sit this vote out. MadTV was hilarious for a while. Now it sucks too these past 3 years. Does anyone know anything worthwhile on late Sat. night TV??