SNL Spoofs Hillary's 3AM Ad

Two weeks after "bitch is the new black," and just one week after Hillary Clinton's surprise appearance on the show, SNL is at it again: this time, opening the show with a spoof of Hillary's 3AM ad. The sketch, seen below, depicts a 3AM phone call between Senator Clinton and a very inexperienced President Obama, who calls Hillary in the middle of the night for advice on what to do about Iran and how to fix the heating in the White House.

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[ObamaEdwards]

My god, this is boring. I couldn't even finish watching it. What's wrong with SNL? Even the amateur YouTube parodies of Clinton's ad were funnier than this.

[kappa08]

Ever since the "bitches" took over, SNL has NOT been funny. The only thing worse than not being funny is being BORING.

[leftbehind2000]

Once again, SNL sets the bar for pointless and unfunny.

What do you expect from a talentless, totally unfunny troupe that includes imbeciles like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler?

There are so many superior options for comedy these days. Too bad SNL wasn't cancelled a decade ago.

[Camarosc35]

Aww, get over it, it is called humor, remember when this country used to have one?

[shuaib]

lol I do remember when we used to. SNL used to as well, but they need to get it back :P

[nmcgivney]

I'm watching this from the other side of the Atlantic, and it's beginning to look to me like whoever the GOP has to face in the real election, they'll be so knackered from this current dogfight that John McCain will have a stroll into Pennsylvania Avenue. He's got to be chuckling to himself oh so quietly right now.

[rjax]

I was totally disgusted.It was not not funny! And the amount of credence that the media is giving this
is a sad commentary.Soon we will be the laughing stock of the World.....Were not far from that!
I wil not be watching SNL.

[inwonderland]

It is my view that all Obama supporters should boycott SNL..

IT is no longer a comedy show but a hack for the Clintons.

IF every supporter of Barack AND those outraged by this not so veiled media bias
turns off the channel on Saturday night, maybe they will get it.

These sketches have been demeaning and baseless. Tina Fey has Lorne Michaels by the tail,
and NBC should speak up from the corporate level that they distance themselves from the
prejudiced content of its Saturday program.

This is about ratings, right now. All our protest of this display of hate and degradation will mean nothing unless thousands of people DON'T WATCH. The sponsors might wake up to the power of the people through their pursestrings.

Remember Barack Obama won more of the popular vote. If even half of us stood up to turn of SNL, they'd feel it AND it will be reported in the press.

If a petition needs to be started, let's do it.

Let's see if they do a skit on Hillary jumping into bed with Elliot Spitzer. Let's see if SNL has the guts to have equal opportunity offenders in their writing group.

At this point, I wish the writers had stayed on strike on that show.

We believe Barack Obama will have the last, best laugh on SNL, the pundits and on Hillary Clinton.

Let Hillary go run for New York Governor. Go home, Hillary, go home.

[Shantee]

I agree with you about the idea of starting a petition. Better yet, a peaceful protest march at 30 Rock would even be better....it would certainly get people's attention. SNL used to be a hip, off-beat, sort of anti-establishment show, back in the day. Now it's just sucking up to corporations, desperate to get their ratings up; it's become part of the status quo.

New York is not Hillary's home....and the only reason she was able to run for US senator here was because she was married to Bill Clinton. The two republicans she ran against were major lightweights. I believe Hillary Clinton is a very smart and thoroughly capable woman, but her lust for power, her recent smear tactics, and her thoroughly thuggish campaign has turned me off.

The fact that she believed that she would have the nomination sown up by Feb. 5, because she was not ready for a Barack Obama surge is just another example of her not being ready on day 1.

The Clintons are the old guard, they're the status quo.....they offer no inspiration or hope.
They've served their country well, but it's time for a BIG CHANGE.

Did you know that when he ran for president Abe Lincoln had the same level of experience Barack Obama has

'The presidency of the U.S. is a powerful bully pulpit. The occupant of the Whte House must not only issue orders, but also inspire and advocate for all Amerians.'

'Yes, we know, hope is not a strategy. but it can get people working together to find one.'

If you really want Barack to win, go to Pennsylvania for a few days and campaign, or go to his website and participate in the phone bank operation, from the comfort of your own home. The phone banks have proven to work.

[LeftLeaner]

It's not only insulting to Senator Clinton, it reinforced in the public's mind, the fact that he IS inexperienced by (however sarcastically) him calling her for advice.

This is how I see it.

[Darksider]

i found the skit unfunny and insulting. It showed Hillary Clinton as manipulative but it also gives her a charm that she doesn't seem to possess in real life. And it played Senator Obama a harvard educated lawyer as an idiot. It's one thing to be a bit biased and to show Hillary in a favorable light. it's another to show a brilliant man, a gifted speaker as a dumbass. This was pretty low even for SNL.

[enoughalready13]

I am really confused about all the media coverage regarding this skit.

#1 - I thought it was hilarious. I don't know why so many people thought it was not funny.
#2 - I thought it actually portrayed BOTH candidates in a favorable light - Hillary as the savior and Barack as the winner - with a slightly more positive spin on HRC for her competence
#3 - I think the fun they were poking at both candidates was rather innocuous and good spirited - Barack's smoking, Bill Clinton not being home at 3am, Hillary's nighttime creams
#4 - If the media, press and this country get so bent out of shape over a funny skit, how on earth will we be able to face or handle a real crisis

[leftbehind2000]

#5 - there's obviously no accounting for taste.

[WomanInOrangeSweater]

I agree. It's really pathetic when the press follows SNL more closely than the records of the candidates and actually uses SNL sketches to inform their "news".
What is also pathetic is the number of people who are outraged by a few comedy sketches. Olberman totally lost me when he railed against Jon Stewart of all people. It's comedy folks and nobody is immune, saints and bitches alike.

[MicahBrwn]

"#3 - I think the fun they were poking at both candidates was rather innocuous and good spirited - Barack's smoking, Bill Clinton not being home at 3am, Hillary's nighttime creams "

You forgot those hair rollers. Hee!

[user168]

If Hillary is so good in foreign polices, why on earth is there a 3 am horrifying call to her anyways?

She chould have consulted Obama and he would have told her that foreign policy is about prevention. Prevention is the best medicine.

[blackirish]

The whole skit was bizarre. It included some sort of disclaimer that this was based on speculation, etc [was this part of the joke?...I couldn't tell]. But the telling part was the text that flashed on the screen at the end, about contacting the DNC to say we had "changed our minds" and wanted to switch our votes from Obama to Hillary. It had what I assume was the DNC's actual phone number.

This, I think, was the point. The skit itself was unfunny and seened to rely for fairness on showing "Hillary" in face cream.

[vipersdad]

wonder where Obama or McCain's "live from New York...." spot is? So much for NBC being "Clinton Haters"

[mamamay]

This is comedy. Folks will have to know that This was really on Hillary. She was depicted as custodian and advisor type friend of Obama. she was not dressed in her diamonds and furs to take a 3 oclock crisis call, she was responding to a rude alarmin wake up call with news she couldn't use The kind of call or A wish for this kind of call would have awaken her from a deep sleep. Wow what a garb she had on. Oh Please, In reality, Obama would have never called hil with such drama. At 3 oclock AM Michelle would have been by his side. Therefore, folks this is the kind of thinking that Hil would have been doing, wondering where was Bil. Wondering why none of the colleagues had called her, and wondering why she may have been aging alone or working so hard alone This comedy was so Hil. that it was just funny, funny. Obama 's day will come and she will not like his spoof on her experience that landed her a job in the upstate NY house ageing. wonk wonk wonk wonk..

[afgail]

Obama supporters are so mean and ugly they make Karl Rove look like a kindred spirit.

[fishwanda]

Karl Rove IS Hillar's kindred spirit.

[vipersdad]

another pro-Hillary spot. I am no longer watching SNL...

[whatsthatsound]

wuthufu?

[dajay]

I'm sure they'll miss ya.

[fearwig]

Why would anyone watch SNL? Is it 1990 still?

[nefariouschafe]

The sketch wasn't good because there's no truth underlying their characterization of Obama. He's the steadiest, most unflappable candidate remaining. To portray him as a moronic, Woody Allen-type isn't grounded enough in reality to be amusing. Armisen's portrayal at the debate in last week's episode was better. I suspect he's still trying to get a handle on the nuances.

As a public figure, Obama deserves to be satirized just as much as Hillary, McCain, Romney, or Jedwards. In fact, I'd say such ribbing is crucial to a healthy democracy. But unless the spoof rings true, it won't work.

'Daily Show' and 'Colbert' are running circles around SNL. So are regular people:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mY2jmgwwmFk

[nmcgivney]

Now you're letting knowledge and incisive commentary get in the way of a pointless argument. And you spell too good too.

[Anie]

Not so unflappable. In his very first questioning by the press on less-friendly issues (March 3), these video clips show:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbkhzsTwz_g
his voice shaking on the loaded words where he feels attacked (this will happen more later)

2. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23455693#23455693
his voice considerably higher-pitched than usual and very stressed

Imagine Hillary walking away from a press conference saying "Guys, I've already answered, like , eight questions." There'd be derision.

Chicago Sun-Times article on this, for what it means to his long-range campaign
http://www.suntimes.com/news/huntley/830209,CST-EDT-hunt07.article

[user168]

There's no humor if it doesn't ring truth. Humor is truth beyond the common eye; it is meant for surprise.

[kravitz]

So to be fair, this week SNL will redo the 3AM ad with Hillary waking up in bed next to Eliot and taking an Amtrak Excela back to Penn Station.

[KoreanVet]

An even fairer version would be President Hillary calling Senator Obama for advice on how to handle a crisis because her top foreign policy adviser is currently fully engaged with a White House Intern.

[LadyHadenough]

ok, I want names... just who are the right winged writers who are taking absurd advantage of this "free" election? Does Downey still work on SNL? I smell a rat and Lorne Michaels better stop whoring out SNL for the sake of a few cheap laughs to appease his right leaning staff. Or I'm outa here. Forever. And I won't be alone. Pissed off Boomers are a force to be reckoned with.

[lenners]

this was pretty funny, but yeah Id like to say also that I am from Texas. San Antonio to be specific and NO ONE, and I mean NOT ONE PERSON I know saw the infamous 3AM ad. It was not even shown in Ohio. It really is much ado about nothing, its just one more ad in a sea of hundreds. I saw many Obama ads...but no Hillary ads. I think that the media and his campaign needed a reason to jump on hillary's case and that was it. Unfortunately for them she still one Texas and Ohio, and to say she won b/c of the ad (that no one ever saw) totally marginalizes the Hispanic vote that won her Texas.

[LAJonathan]

So unfunny. SNL jumped the shark LONG AGO and if this doesn't do it, nothing will.

[transparent]

SNL has lost its relevancy. They need some new blood. I guess it's time for Jon Stewart to perform another Clinton kiss-ass session. After Morning Joe's comment on Bill Maher about being pulled into the back room if he's too hard on Clinton, I'm starting to wonder what kind of tactics this campaign is using.

[CalexenderJ]

I think everybody is missing the point here. What's sad is people letting their political opinions being shaped by a COMEDY SHOW. SNL's only responsibility is to draw ratings presumably through being funny. They are not required to be fair or balanced or even honest. Just because a sketch suggests that the media is biased, or that Hillary is a bitch, or Barack is inexperienced that doesn't mean any of that is true. What it means is that SNL saw an angle which they thought could generate a few laughs, and viewers need to be a little smarter and not take what Amy Poehler in character says as gospel.

[afgail]

Except of course that the media IS biased against Hillary and Obama IS inexperienced. A touch of truth underpins all good comedy. I thought it was very good satire. The more the Obama folks scream like eagles the more they confirm that the sketch hit home. A truism in politics is the louder the oppositions screams about a political punch it is a confirmation that it really hurt. It is an unerring indication on where to punch again.

[Brianimator]

Increasingly it seems as though SNL is "in the tank" for Hillary. I'd call that comic irony. Too bad it isn't funny.

[bilmardre]

I think you are missing the point. I certainly don't take anything said on SNL seriously. The point is SNL always seems to come up with an "angle" which reinforces what Clinton is saying on the campaign trail. Humor is a great way to propagate ideas, whether they be true or not.

[JoDeeVa]

If anyone is forming political opinions and making decisions about candidates solely based on comedy/satire "propagating ideas?"..YIKES! Satire does challenge the perceptions of the masses, but one would hope they balance it with scrutiny of the reality that is being lampooned!

BTW..Barack Obama did SNL in the fall, with 'Amy Poehler's Hillary' getting punked by an "Obama-mask wearing Obama." HIS angle had him him saying (sic).."i don't hide behind a mask of the truth."