Cold Opening: Gore / Bush Third Debate - Saturday Night Live 

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What sends this sketch over the top is the clever roasting of the “undecided voter” trope. Man, this was the top tier period of SNL.

3:19 Well Dan, I admire your scepticism. And to be quite honest, I think you’re the perfect profile for a Bush supporter.

There is no Scotch on earth that has aged as finely as this sketch over twenty years.

Old political SNL sketches are the best.

That fkn al gore impression my god

Will Ferrell definitely does the best and most hilarious impression of W.

First performance of Fallon i've seen where he's not breaking character.

Jorge H.W.B. lmfao

2:31 Have you held elected office? What a stupid question to ask a candidate, of course to become president you need to have held elected... oh wait

I hear Chris Parnell but he's unrecognizable

Can we all agree that Dana Carvey playing George H.W. Bush is the best impression of all time?

Dana Carvey as HW, Will Ferrell and W and Darrell as Gore..fucking comedy gold!

The H W Bush impression was spot on, lmao

Love how Bush looks lost and confused

It's great that Fallon didn't giggle reading his line.

The undecieded Latino Voter George H. W. Bush ... XD

Man, these sketches were the best! Why can't it be like this today?

Best impressions of gore, W and H W it’s amazing

Watching this in October 2020 after the duel town halls with undecided voters...

Chris Parnell’s makeup for this role must have taken sooooo long!

"Watch me lean"

IMO, Dana Carvey's George H. W. Bush impression and Will Ferrell's George W. Bush impression are not very accurate at all, but absolutely hilarious, and so they're the best impressions of those people. I've seen more accurate impressions of both, but it's more important to be funny than accurate. Darrell Hammond’s Al Gore is fantastic.

20 years later and the topics are still the same

I’m leaning, I’m leaning on the fence Dana is a treasure

Our memory of you lives on, Jim Lehrer. If there’s a wonderful place in the afterlife, you’re in it. ✌🏼

02:24 that face

Jimmy has a real pete davidson energy vibe here

That is a perfect representation of an independent.

I never thought I’d be so nostalgic for such times. Especially after Bush “won”. But god at least that seemed like real life?

This is one my favorites!

At 5:40, was that Jimmy Fallon?!

Should have included AlGore's personal space invasion moment.

omg its young fallon

there's so MuCh Truth in Humor LMAO godspeed lol...

2:27 go ahead Dan ima do my bayust

Those pink shawls!! 😂😭

Dana Carvey is awesome...

2020 brought me here but I saw it live at the time.

Agreed!!

Dana carvey !!

Is the guy from @6:10 played by Jimmy Fallon? Because sure looks and sound like him. 🤣

0:15 hey mom, it's Pinocchio☝

When bush senior comes out 😂😂😂

How is that not actually al gore. It's literally identical

3:49 I didn't know Agent Smith worked for the Secret Service

I cant stand the GOP, I think about it way too much. I thought Bush was such a clown until one day while I was TDY to Diego Garcia, both Air Force 1's landed and I got to meet him face to face, I was suprised how down to Earth he was with us, "The Troops". The spelling of my last name leaves me open to many funny attempts at saying it. Bush walked right up to me and said "Hi Sgt ...." and nailed my last name in one shot. I couldnt believe it. Best part about the visit, we had a young Airmen who always talked shit and my boss told him and all of us dont say anything stupid or act up. We were formed up and Bush walked up to my buddy and my buddy said, "Sir can I give you 2 bucks?" Bush said why do you want to give me 2 bucks? My friend said if any one asks me if I met the President I can say "Met him...shit he owes me 2 bucks."

0:45 ...... wow the more things change the more they stay the same

Right to choose and health insurance. 22 years ago, same issues.

Dana and will are brilliant

after the second/third debate

Who plays Jim Lehrer and why does he look like a ventriloquist doll?

God this is so real now. It’s so sad when we have regressed to SNL skits being reality

The townhall debate format needs to die.

Great young fallon

Cant find the 2nd debate

0:53 oh my god nothings changed

Strategery

Dana Carvey is unreal as H.W.

Actually Al Gore was born on 31 March 1948 so he would have been 52 at the time of this debate. Also, Lockbox.

anyone know who the secret service guys are? writers or some such?

Back when both candidates were portrayed as equally ridiculous

its over 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They used to be so good at this

Ah, simpler times...

1:56-2:02: a little bit of Warning of what was to come,perhaps? A forewarning?maybe she should have gotten the hint or all Americans for that matter who watched Saturday Night Live that night.lol

No political debate would be even close to Saint Louis these days

Al Gore at that time was 52 years old.

Anyone watching this now? Heh...timing..debate with trump and biden

Love this take on "undecided" voters.

I found the lockbox 🎉

Remember when debates were boring?

What in the hell was up with that woman's face in the bg of Kattan and Fallon's questions lol

Why did Jim do this the entire thing?!

HW didn't even bother to change his voice when he was Barbara Bush!!

3:19

Woman on right bottom at 2:16 looks creepy as hell to me.

2:58

0:27 wtf is that a real face

Honestly, suggesting that someone should vote for your opponent to a person who holds a belief system completely opposite from you might very well be a great idea.

Back when the economy hadn't collapsed and W was funny, not a danger to everybody.

I miss this type of politics

Parnel?

Here we are 10 years later .. in the year of an election and still have the same issues as a country .. still working on the same issues . Obviously no progress has been made in the United States in over 10 years 🤦🏼‍♀️

When SNL was actually funny

Is that Elon Musk behind Chris Kattan?

So nobody is gonna address why the hell is the moderators face look swollen 😂🤔🤔

Young Jimmy Fallon!!!!!!!

Today's news is funnier than this.

@ 5:25 14 year old Jimmy Fallon is just cute as a button!!🧒🏻☺️

Ultimately what good is this satire? It doesn’t have any impact on electoral results.

Welp... gotta cancel Dana Carvey now

Jimmy where he belongs

Back when SNL actually made fun of both sides.

Jeez jimmy Fallon was so bad

Vote for gore and not me yet bush won

Gore should run again. #Gore2024

When they did actual satire...

"how tf could you be an undecided voter more than 15 minutes into any election, ever, at any time?" dumb people: "just watch"

Back when SNL was funny!