All The Presidents' Memes: FunnyorDie assembles all-star cast of SNL imPREZsionists

[aenemaTron]

"Whattaya say we open up a bag of "Malaise" potato chips?"

[James Smann]

"The code on the door was still 1234 from when I was President. I remembered it after four tries."

Not sure if that's the exact line, but the timing on the "4 tries" line slayed me.

[BillBrasky]

"Can I be ambassador to Cancun?" I also like Clinton fingering his cigar when he says "it was the 90's, people did a lot of crazy things".

Want to take a guess as to who wrote which jokes? GW's line about putting the Iraq War on his credit card seems like a McKay line.

[Zoltar]

My question was meant to be snarky, but now everyone's answering it. And I feel like king of Jerktown. A town with a king.

[aenemaTron]

Oh... in that case, back to deadly serious race discussion:

My point - and this is in response to BillBrasky - is that there are more considerations than the color of a person's skin (actual or perceived - citing his being "half black," one could easy just consider Obama to be a dark-skinned white, if the identification of a mixed race wasn't automatically slotted towards the minority designation - the "one-drop rule," which has a more technical name that I can't remember).

That said, I think Fred Armisen is given free rein to play characters of assorted races and ethnicities because of his own varied background, just like Maya Rudolph and probably various others. As long as they avoid the historically maligned "100% white person playing 100% brown person" - and they've done it regardless, like Hammond's Jesse Jackson and Fallon's Chris Rock - they look at the racial ambiguity of Barack Obama as a gift.

Remember when they held "open auditions" to replace Phil Hartman as Clinton? Tim Meadows was in there, and that was, of course, played as a joke. Maya Rudolph, on the other hand, can go either way. I am not sure how that all fits together but ultimately, I like to think that SNL is taking a more global approach to race and not the reductive USA perspective.

[Zoltar]

All impressions, white or black, should be done by a single fat white guy.

[Berliner]

He's white? Caliendo always sounded Hispanic to me.

[funnyclown]

Alright, now, everyone name their favorite joke in this video. Go!

Done!

[funnyclown]

Reagan was a senile grandpa...

I thought his thing was having funny-sounding balls.

[BillBrasky]

Oh... in that case, back to deadly serious race discussion:

My point - and this is in response to BillBrasky - is that there are more considerations than the color of a person's skin (actual or perceived - citing his being "half black," one could easy just consider Obama to be a dark-skinned white, if the identification of a mixed race wasn't automatically slotted towards the minority designation - the "one-drop rule," which has a more technical name that I can't remember).

That said, I think Fred Armisen is given free rein to play characters of assorted races and ethnicities because of his own varied background, just like Maya Rudolph and probably various others. As long as they avoid the historically maligned "100% white person playing 100% brown person" - and they've done it regardless, like Hammond's Jesse Jackson and Fallon's Chris Rock - they look at the racial ambiguity of Barack Obama as a gift.

Remember when they held "open auditions" to replace Phil Hartman as Clinton? Tim Meadows was in there, and that was, of course, played as a joke. Maya Rudolph, on the other hand, can go either way. I am not sure how that all fits together but ultimately, I like to think that SNL is taking a more global approach to race and not the reductive USA perspective.

Yes, but my point was that Fred may be a mixture of different ethnicities, but none of them are black (or African). Maya Rudolph is at least part black. For the record, I find it a little offensive when Darrell Hammond plays Jesse Jackson too.

Political correctness aside, I think most people in the country define Barack Obama as black. Just like most people would define Tiger Woods as black. You're right though, sometimes race can be a gray area; I don't know what you would call Rashida Jones (besides hot, am I right guys? High five)

[BillBrasky]

Yes, but my point was that Fred may be a mixture of different ethnicities, but none of them are black (or African). Maya Rudolph is at least part black. For the record, I find it a little offensive when Darrell Hammond plays Jesse Jackson too.

Political correctness aside, I think most people in the country define Barack Obama as black. Just like most people would define Tiger Woods as black. You're right though, sometimes race can be a gray area; I don't know what you would call Rashida Jones (besides hot, am I right guys? High five)

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Uhh...thanks, I guess, whoever upvoted this post a year and a half after I wrote it. (weirdo)