First Presidential Debate: Al Gore and George W. Bush - SNL 

Ima just take this RU-vid comment as fact.

For the folks at home, Al Gore was the Vice President under Bill Clinton who'd later run for President and lose in the raucous 2000 election. He was married to Tipper Gore, and the two met at their High School prom. Later he attended Harvard, where he actually befriended future Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones.

Not priceless enough. Apparently.

@@NitroGummyBear How about you read and learn, little man?

@@fshoaps projection.

Cam x Cam I wouldn’t believe everything on Wikipedia unless Gore or a staffer said it themselves.

Dont say goddamn

HealthyAndrew God fucking damn it, you’re right.

@@HealthyAndrew shut up

HealthyAndrew preach, goddamnit

That was Will Farrell? I thought W was guest hosting that day.

Ikr! He has a look of genuine "this is hurting my brain" on his face.

Yes. Its much better than the ones today. Both sides being made fun of equally. It was about making fun of everything. Not trying to send a political message.

@@meltedmarshdaddy then the 2 candidates should have equal potential for comedy. Anyone with common sense can realize trump is way easier to satirize than Biden.

Uhhhhhh.......

@@heywoodjablome7535 Idk about that dude called his sister his wife.

@@4realjacob637 That’s not what he said

Mike Oley Darrell almond does a great Clinton.

It's even crazier when you look into the psychiatric state he was in during this time. If I'm not mistaken he had a panic attack and cut himself (self-harm) badly on his forearm before doing this sketch.

haha

Politically speaking, Bush had a major impact on Texas and is still very popular there. His nephew, George P. Bush, is now the elected Land Commissioner in the state.

@Holland Oates - LOL. That guy ^ up there didn't get your joke! :)

Cody Polar : I wood never misunderestimate a Bush.

Holland Oates... great name! Lol

That's unpossible.

Its my favorite quote. Think Bush has the same problem I do, where my brain scrambles words making weird sentences.

OMG I laughed so hard!

He really said that huh? HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!

@@TheBee87bee no, he didn't. but it's fun to think that he did.

@@TheBee87bee Sure did, far as I can tell. No idea what he meant by it.

I forgot that Bush often looked like he was in pain. But he dodged those shoes like a boss.

You've seen will ferell's bush?!

@@user-bl1gg2br5m He has the same look that the real Bush did on 9/11.

@@joeschmo6882 we all have :(

Exactly! I can't find a gif of just that. :/

Me too

Same

thats a good strategery to make friends!

What is the meaning? I want to use it too! It should be added to dictionary.

Guilty.

Him and that damn lockbox!!!!😁😄😂😭

Right.... This dude nails it.

Darrell Hammond is a genius. Whether it was Gore or Sean Connery in Celebrity Jeopardy... just so good. He really nailed everything he did.

His Bill Clinton was on point too

@@jasondicioccio880 phil hartmans was def funnier imo but hammonds was superior in that he got the mannerisms and inflection down pat

You'll never get it...

He talked it up so...many times...we all want one!

too late now for lockbox

Too bad... all we got was strategery instead...

I wish we could go back to that time.

SNL is all cue cards. No one has to memorize lines, especially since they can be changed up to minutes before air.

@@mapples007 now it is. It wasn't like that back in the day. When the actors had talent and it was actually funny

​@@theomen7665 Saturday Night Live always has cure Cards. The actors at the time never needed them. But they were always on the show.

@@raheemhamilton8624 Cool fake story bro.

@@deiansalazar140 it's not fake it's real. SNL always have cue Cards on set.

Lol, I'm dead. I love you man!! Lmfao

Really palmieres, because I thought it was Bush Jr thinking. xD xD

LOCK. BOX.

You probably need to update the app...and take the previous version of the app and put it away....away in a tiny lockbox.

super man superredCyyton (Kryton cape..lol

MikeAgs121 agreed!!

And they screwed him out of doing Trump for the more divisive piece of shit Alec Baldwin

MikeAgs121 shame they ousted him for saying something positive about Trump.

Robby1424 ok I liked his Trump way better than Alec Baldwin’s.

What about Norm Macdonald? Ppl remember him for update, but he was gold on impressions as well.

"will you shut up man"

I died there! 😂😂😂

Todd Biesel - Legendary

Thank you!!!

Ha

Trump’s MO in the last presidential debate (smh)

Source?

@@_somerandomguyontheinternet_ I made it up

This is better than anything SNL puts out these days.

Anything would be better than that "debate"

That was a debate between Trump and Chris Wallace

@@SM2099 Agreed!!

It's like it was written by a chat bot hahahaha

PASS

Don't ever misunderestimate Bush

😂

This sketch was moronic and lame. It wasn't creative or funny in the least. It was about as bad a sketch as there could be- exactly the opposite of genius

None None there are different types comedy, it's not always crazy and in your face

Great Jim Lehrer, Gore and "W"! Unbeatable mimics.

embe1 moo

@@nonenone5976 It was actually great, they just amplified the drawbacks of the candidates, without over the top caricature like Alec Baldwin's Trump impersonation.

Is that part supposed me something or is it just jibberish

@@BrianSmith-yq7ys I think it was supposed to mean that the kids would be enjoying the exquisite sex and wholesome violence mentioned in the previous sentence, and that Bush would help to make it happen! 😉

Darrell Hammond is the most underrated cast member ever on SNL

@@josephherbert6455 true

@@MrLandonweber LOL!!!!!

at first i thought the description got the actors mixed up lol

STDrepository Check out Bob Ducca on Comedy Bang Bang for more hilarious illness-related humor. You're welcome.

I think I can express my agreement with you with one single word. Lockbox.

Eda's prescription drug bills are staggering

Lockbox

To me, the funniest part was that with all those things wrong with her, she was still out in the ocean (apparently), because she got attacked by a shark.

EA can help you with that.

Will Farrell George bush

If only you could find it.

Go into real estate,lol

If it'll shut him up about'em!😁😂

The fact that he still went on stage and preformed despite being in so much emotional pain... I’m glad he did this sketch but I also wish he got help as soon as possible :(

Jesus Christ!

Yup. Gore's campaign tried to get him to emphasize the lock box idea, but damn.... Al Gore took it way too far

LOCKBOX!

You must truly consider yourself a funny guy.

W himself got Mandela'd into believing he'd actually said "strategery" at some point. It was so glorious.

Mj Noor indeed

Right!!! The level of confidence he has had me DYING!!!

Give a time stamp next time. It's a 10 minute video. Lol.

In hindsight, that look was prophetic, perfectly encapsulating American reaction to decisions made by the Bush administration.

9:30

And the cue card reading by the president!

Lockbox

Jason Wood President Bush was seen as being dumber than bag of rocks. Then his numbers went up after 9/11

Really? I'm very clueless on that time period since I was born a year after that. So his popularity grew?

Dark Tales Production when 9/11 happened he got the highest approval numbers ever until President Obama. People liked President Bush’s “were gonna get em” speech. His numbers went down around 2006 to the lowest ever for any President, beating his father who had the lowest numbers previously.

Jerry Smith He didn’t, but his lowest was only off Nixon’s by 1 (25% approval to Nixon’s 24%). The rating officially only goes back to FDR, but Truman has the official all time lowest at 22%.

@Lorgar I think it had to do with Bush appearing calm and collected in the face of the attacks and the national anxiety that persisted afterwards. Whether that was because he is a strong leader who stays calm in a crisis, or because he was a dopey moron who didn't really understand what was happening, I can't really say. But he did give people a sense that "everything's going to be OK" in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and he gained a huge amount of popularity from that. Probably because we didn't know at the time that if his administration had taken Richard Clarke (head of the National Security Council) seriously for even 5 minutes, the attacks might have been prevented. They saw him as a Clinton Appointee and just sidelined him for 8 months as he was running around Washington with reports of suspected Saudi terrorists attending flight schools in the US.

Not the one tonight...

Aged like milk 🥛 😆

I disagree, this skit is better than today’s debates.

What exactly?

Chadster357 if you think Bush is actually stupid you're insane. He graduated top his class at Yale and Harvard Business, and is well spoken on immigration law and policy. His public speaking is just hilarious... almost to the point that it could be a show lol

Will Nickell LMAO!!! "Top of his class at Yale?!?!" He was a C student who graduated with a 2.35 average. Look it up! You're actually under the impression that W. Bush is an intellectual?

BigBadJerry Rogers YALE

Except not at all in this sketch

Hooch Froosch impersonation*

It reminds me of Mr. Burns' doctor's appointment in The Simpsons.

Strategery

@@lockandloadlikehell lockbox

It really was

it still is you just grew up and realized how overwhelming the world can be

I really can’t wrap my head around how this is the same century as the one we’re living in

He did in fact, actually say it.

Nope, SNL writers came up with it. But Bush later thought it was something he might have said, so he started using it, in fun.

@@user-ll7fv6tu7k Are you sure you aren't thinking of strategery? Also I can't find any evidence of him ever saying this online

They could do a whole night of Biden misquotes.... But, they won't.

@@HardRockMaster7577 Biden is a famous gaff machine. The problem with criticizing him is that ANYthing you can criticize him for, you can redirect at Trump, and often it's far worse. I mean, should we even review the things Trump has garbled in speeches?

LOCKBOX

And $113 MILLION dollars a day!! 🤣

Lochan D just reading that is so damn funny.

That still sounds more knowledgeable than when Trump talks about policy

I mean, he made an effort!

"Umm, but I'm not gonna pronounce any of their names tonight, because I don't believe that's in our national interest"

@@krombopulos_michael Because at least Bush kinda admits he knows nothing

Tucker Bowen Both Bush and Gore would be a dream compared to a lot of the rubes that have gone through Capitol Hill in recent memory 🤦🏻‍♂️

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!

I said the same thing in 2008 and 2012

That amputated syphilis line was too damn funny😂😂😂😂😂😂

People must be saying who in their right mind would vote for either of these idiots.

Eddie Munster?!

Nope, no: this was the moment when things really got screwed. The Supreme Court really did ruin democracy by stepping in and preventing votes from being counted, effectively handing the presidency to Bush.

After suffering through Hussein Obama, I agree.

Chandler White

Objectively speaking the body count of Cheney / Bush is still much higher. 190,000 corona deaths nonwithstanding. And also that of Obama (even though the deaths from his admin are more in other countries (Yemen, Syria, Libya). Bush, apart from the wars he started. The fallout from the Great Financial Crisis. Under Obama: big auto and the banksters were saved and the voters were thrown under the bus. 5,5 milion homes forclosed. The opiode crisis must have started under Bush (I am making an assumption), and needless to say the Obama admin also could not be bothered to step on the toes of big pharma in order to protect the public. Many people overdose, many people get caught up in addiction, families ripped apart, children in foster care. the violence that accompagnies drug dealing. people lose their sense of morality if they are seriously addicted. They can become good citizens again if they get and stay sober - but under the wrong circumstances they might kill or harm someone while crazy on drugs, a burglary gone wrong and the shoot someone while being stressed out, etc. Or they steal from close family and friends. (money from a beloved sister, the wedding ring the mother inherited from the grandmother, etc.) Addiction has a massive societal fallout. Unless a nation goes the path of Portugal. Needless to say Obama the neoliberal took did not use his platform to there is a big societal collateral damage from these drugs. Insuline costs 10 times more in the U.S. like the same product in Canada. if you are responsible for the healthcare of a nation - the wellbeing but also what it costs, it is not so much about the spectacular surgery. It is the normal, generic things that must function. How you handle prevention, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, and that people go the the doctor early (often that helps to minimize harm or allows for a full recovery). Untreated or poorly managed diabetes (rationing insanely expenisve insuline) is a disaster - in everyrespect. And it will result in high costs later, but that spending will not even get you good outcomes for the patients. The insurers and big pharma do not care about the misery or the high costs later - it does not harm _them._ Under Bush the law was introduced (or it was consolidated) that no government agency can negotiate drug prices. Only VA can (and they brought prices down by 40 %). The private insurers are not interested in the battle of giants, they just pass on the too high costs. It is not like the consumers could abstain from buying. Necessary treatments / drugs are not like consumer products, no one can stop buying if they think it is a rip off. Under Obama Big Pharma got more perks (ACA was a very industry friendly "reform", the government just props up the dysfunction with a lot of money. drug companies got patent extensions !). and then again under Trump (testing for drugs was already fast, and they are now allowed to progress even faster. Plus of course the tax cuts for big biz). 30,000 people die from lack of healthcare coverage every year (Harvard study in Obama era, with ACA). A more recent study puts the death toll more in the range of 60,000. That is 300,000 - 600,000 people in 10 years, and unlike corona virus it will not stop at some point. Democrats ALSO gladly accept that collateral damage resulting from their service for the big donors. Never mind Republicans.

@@chandlerwhite8302 Found the racist!

2009: Corpse man

2000: Lockbox 2010: "You like your Doctor; You can keep your Doctor." One of endless lies about OBAMACARE.

J. Carey 2009 “If you like your doctor.....” 2018 “ There is no collusion”

2018 (continued) - “This is a tough hurricane. One of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water.” - "No Smocking Gun"

Right..lpl

I believe that some of your figures may be inaccurate

Are Kate McKinnon, Larry David, and others not cast members?

@@noahhertzman3386 Larry David isn't. Most of the people they use for major political impressions these days aren't.

You can see his brain hurting.

I cant believe any of them didnt break character laughing

No it's not but it is very good.

itkojecockot Ikr!!😄😄😄

It was boring, and lame, because Ferrell didn't do Anything. It was so poorly written Ferrell couldn't even display his ability at all.

He got a lot better at playing Bush once Bush was President. Compare this to his “Conversations with Myself” bit and it’s nowhere near as funny!

@@nonenone5976 he did great shut up

It was really funny "I'm not going to pronounce those because it's not in our national interests". Lmao, really clever joke.

I just realized who was in that role. Really hard to tell it was him until the, "Live from New York."

That is a ton of makeup on him. He's not even recognizable.

Yeah this skit illustrates why Gore lost. If only by 537 votes.

This would likely be a lot funnier today had Gore actually won, instead of the dolt we got, courtesy of the Supreme Court.

49 year old me still does

Two child did. I will.

Yep

Me

no, because its my first time watching