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]

This was very funny - excellent piece of work!

[decm]

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

[DeeW]

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

[ObamaRocks13]

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

[Prayforchange]

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

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

[kymlosang]

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

[joemescher]

I thought Affleck was going to have a seizure!

[ldm56]

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

[Arkangel88]

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

[inorbit]

I thought it was hysterical!

And I'm very liberal...­..

[lakephillip]

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

[Dr Aletta]

Loved it!

[gamoonbat]

Good night and good luck!

[adamsmith3]

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]

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]

Well said.

[Dulce]

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 ;-)

[Dulce]

Well, the fact of the matter is that this parody of Olbermann was INDEED a roast LOL---and an excellent one at that. The implication being of course that the roastee is able to take the jokes in good faith and as not being serious criticism or insult, and therefore showing their good nature, as Keith Olbermann did. It is actually considered a great honor to be roasted, especially by someone like Ben Affleck.

[CDT1969]

Keith Olbermann is the Left's version of Hannity and/or Limbaugh - he is nothing more than a partisan hack who can't be taken seriously, which makes SNL's send up of KO's uber self-importance an instant classic.

-CDT

[ladyrefined2000]

you are my God.......­..........­LOL

[JulieDole]

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