Saturday Night Live's Olbermann Sketch: Affleck's Pompous, Cat-Owning Keith (VIDEO)

Ben Affleck impersonated Keith Olbermann on Saturday Night Live in a sketch of "Countdown." As reported, the skit mocked the MSNBC anchor and played him as an exaggerating, pompous cat-owner who speaks like a Shakespearean actor, cuts off his guests and lives with his mother. After making up various lies and naming one guest "Worst Person in the World," Affleck's Olbermann delivered a special comment on the rejection of his co-op application because of his white cat, Miss Precious Perfect, complete with "Countdown" -like camera work and music.

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[maggsa]

02:19 AM on 11/05/2008

This was very funny - excellent piece of work!

[decm]

12:38 AM on 11/05/2008

Love the 360 chair spin. Massachuse­tts under Mitt Romney was pretty funny too.

[DeeW]

11:17 PM on 11/04/2008

I loved this .. .he had him right on! LOL Keith loved it too.

[ObamaRocks13]

09:51 PM on 11/04/2008

Great Sarah Palin Video, check it out
its so worth watching! great animation and song!
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=1exiyBYnJ­00

[Prayforchange]

09:17 PM on 11/04/2008

"the thinking man" is perhaps the first political ad short of any campaign.

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=9KzbJtG9V­2E

[kymlosang]

08:45 PM on 11/04/2008

i really enjoyed it. i love keith and ben did a fun job at portraying him.

[joemescher]

08:44 PM on 11/04/2008

I thought Affleck was going to have a seizure!

[ldm56]

07:00 PM on 11/04/2008

hysterical­!! didn't know that was affleck till the end. i love olbermann, rants & all!

[Arkangel88]

06:48 PM on 11/04/2008

Keith Olbermann is so much more entertaini­ng to watch as himself than Affleck. Nice try, Benjamin.

[inorbit]

06:23 PM on 11/04/2008

I thought it was hysterical­!

And I'm very liberal...­..

[lakephillip]

05:52 PM on 11/04/2008

Even though Keith Olbermann is my Hero...I laughed my ass off with Ben's skit...rea­lly funny! A+

[Dr Aletta]

05:06 PM on 11/04/2008

Loved it!

[gamoonbat]

04:23 PM on 11/04/2008

Good night and good luck!

[adamsmith3]

03:27 PM on 11/04/2008

This skit was pure genius, and, like all great satire, skewers Olbermann more by imitating the truth than anything else. It had all the essential elements that make KO so absurd: the manufactur­ed indignatio­n, the hyperbolic moral equivalenc­ies (compariso­ns to Hitler, Pol Pot, etc), the pedantic references to literary figures (look at me, I'm educated!)­, the endless calling of his enemies to resign, and of course, the silencing of any dissenting voice from his show (at least Maddow brings on a conservati­ve like Buchanan from time to time....Ol­bermann's show is the most Stalinist on television (I can make hyperbolic comparison­s too Keith)).

This mockery of Olbermann was not a respectful roast of a respected media figure, but a way of pointing out the kooks in the liberal party and telling them to go away, you're only hurting our image. Much the same way William F. Buckley sought to drive the right-wing kooks from modern Conservati­sm.

[longcrl]

04:22 PM on 11/04/2008

Pointing out what? The kooks in the "liberal party"?

Have I been sleeping this week while phone-bank­ing for Obama? Is there indeed a third political party known as the "liberal party?" What's this news going to mean for Ralph Nader?

I say Keith O. for Prez. He has more creds than Palin by far. If he's helped us to be aware of appalling facts in an overstated way, he's surely ready for the White House.

[Tyrione]

05:29 PM on 11/04/2008

Well said.

[Dulce]

07:58 PM on 11/04/2008

Thank you. It has indeed usually been my experience that successful people are those, who like Keith Olbermann, show the ability to laugh at themselves (Remember Keith on David Letterman: "the kid with the big head"?). In that regard, it is obvious that Keith Olbermann takes himself far less seriously than, say, some of his critics do (like Joe the Adamsmithi­an, here - LOL), or someone like, say, Bill O'Reilly (I don't remember the guy ever laughing at himself) or the hosts of Fox & Friends, who seem to take themselves very very very seriously, indeed, which I always find amazing considerin­g how Fox News is, in Larry King's words, hardly more than just "a populist, tabloidy network." But, then again, far too many people take Fox News way too seriously, too ;-)

[JulieDole]

03:08 PM on 11/04/2008

That was awesome. I can see why Sarah Silverman fell for him ;)