Saturday Night Live Unites Bush and Kanye West to Bash the Former President
As NewsBusters has been reporting all week, the media have used the occasion of George W. Bush's published memoirs "Decision Points" to rekindle their hatred for the 43rd president.
Not surprisingly, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" took its shots at Bush by uniting him with Kanye West during "Weekend Update" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
SETH MEYERS: This week, Kanye West apologized to former President George W. Bush for saying he doesn't care about black people during hurricane Katrina, while the President said he forgave Kanye. Here to explain George W. Bush and Kanye West.
[ Cheers and applause ]
MEYERS: Good to see you, Kanye.
JAY PHAROAH AS KANYE WEST: I mean, what's up, fam?
MEYERS: Alright. Hello, Mr. President.
JASON SUDEIKIS AS GEORGE W. BUSH: Oh Seth, I’m not president anymore.
MEYERS: Oh yeah, I know. It’s just customary to call you that.
SUDEIKIS: Alright. Cool.
MEYERS: Okay. So everything's good with you guys?
PHAROAH: I mean, it’s all good now, fam, cause you know, we had problems and now we solved those problems. Yeah, fam.
SUDEIKIS: Absolutely, absolutely. I love Conway. I do.
PHAROAH: ♪♪ ♪♪ Kanye and W, best of friends united by forgiveness. ♪♪ ♪♪ Yo recognize, haters.
SUDEIKIS: That’s right, haters. Come on, haters, recognize that.
MEYERS: I have to say, I wouldn't have thought you guys would have that much in common.
SUDEIKIS: Well, sure, we do, Seth. Now, come on. You know, we're both rich. Right? I mean, we're both impulsive. Yeah. I mean, he interrupted Taylor Swift at an awards show.
PHAROAH: That's true.
SUDEIKIS: And I interrupted how well our country was doing for eight years.
PHAROAH: That's right, fam, that's right. No time for haters.
SUDEIKIS: That's right. You know, Kanye's even got me doing the twister.
PHAROAH: Twitter.
SUDEIKIS: Twitter, I'm sorry about that. Fam. You know, he was teaching me how to tweet. And I really like it cause, you know, it's short, and you just kind of puke out whatever's on your mind. Yeah, hey it's also, you know, it’s real lenient on grammar, and I like that.
PHAROAH: Hey, tell them your twitter, fam.
SUDEIKIS: Okay, here we go, sure. You know, I call myself Not So Curious George. I don't know if you get it. I didn't get it initially, but I get it now.
MEYERS: So I have to ask, have you guys actually been hanging out?
PHAROAH: Well, yes, yes fam. You know, I took him sunglass shopping.
SUDEIKIS: That's right. I needed glasses to help me with all the squinting. So we went out and bought these bad boys. Look at that. They're designer brand. They’re called Guckies.
PHAROAH: No, no, no, it's, it’s Gucci.
SUDEIKIS: Gucci, that’s right, they’re Guccis. Yeah, you know Kanye and I also went down to Crawford to clear some brush.
MEYERS: Wow, really?
SUDEIKIS: Yeah.
PHAROAH: Yeah, you know, it was different than I thought it was going to be, you know. I thought clearing brush was a white people's term for going to a club and picking up ugly b----es.
SUDEIKIS: Honest mistake. Honest mistake. You know, this guy's a hoot. You know, I love black people. I love them.
MEYERS: President George W. Bush and Kanye West, everyone.
Mostly jokes about our 43rd President being an idiot.
With him out of the limelight for almost two years, couldn't the writers have thought up something new?
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Apology tour
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 9:51am.
On "Conway's" apology tour he should also visit Mike Myers and Taylor Swift.
They can still pick on Bush
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 9:56am.
They can still pick on Bush but at least he has human qualities and does not come across as some emotionless Vulcan like the current President.
Not When...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 10:01am.
With him out of the limelight for almost two years, couldn't the writers have thought up something new?How can they think of anything new when all their so called comedy comes from the DNC? These idiots don't have the ability to think. Furthermore, they're not really funny. They remind of my second grade class clowns, mainly silly!
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"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Watched for 10 minutes and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Submitted by Tomorama on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 10:47am.
This dreck is still on?
The show lost it's audience for one simple reason, they alienated more than half the country with their "skits" that leaned left, far, far left.
Sure, sometimes they would stray from the "meme", but mostly a boring as hell, no imagination leftist boorfest.
We had three superior shows in the last twenty years to this, Mad TV, Chappelle and In living color which were uh, uh, uh funny because they skewered EVERYONE.
Is it any wonder that the only high rated shows now are when Palin and McCain were on?
By the way, the Kanye West assistance tour is BS, he IS what he IS.
Dang!
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 11:19am.
I missed this! A "Cops" rerun was on.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Noel, I have to quibble about
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 1:02pm.
Noel, I have to quibble about your use of "rekindle." ;-)
1. to arouse or cause to be aroused again: rekindle the romance in your relationship 2. to set alight or start to burn againIt never died. It didn't even go into remission.
How about "fan the flames of" ?
MB
Submitted by Noel Sheppard on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 1:15pm.
MB,
Point taken. ns
SNL - Several Nincompoops aLying
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 1:40pm.
With him [Pes Bush] out of the limelight for almost two years, couldn't the writers have thought up something new?
Or perhaps something true?
(;~/ gary
PS - I know they all want to forget, but Bush inherited a rather significant economic crash - caused by the March, 2000 Dot.Com bubble collapse - resulting in a recession, and then had the little event known as 9/11 to deal with.
"With him out of the
Submitted by Beukeboom on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 1:49pm.
Remember you ARE talking about writers for SNL who haven't had too many original ideas in the past several years.
Time For The Left To Get Off The Toilet
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 2:27pm.
This hatred-disguised-as-humor was perfected by the initial cast and writers of SNL (Chevy Chase et al) in the '70s. That group was the poisoned sludge left behind by the radical ruled '60s. You could expect those pukes to use psychological violence to get their hatred across. It's a shame to see that it has lasted this long. But it's not surprising - the mainstream news media and dominant entertainment culture has stayed the course, and remains violently (psychologically at least) hateful of America and anything that isn't out of the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. And "Rules For Radicals" by Saul Alinsky.
Haven't watched
Submitted by Model850 on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 3:20pm.
I haven't watched SNL in ages, and if the so-called "comedy skit" presented here is any indication of the "humor" of that show, I made an extremely wise decision in abandoning the program.
Seriously; This was supposed to be funny?