Bobby Jindal Is Kenneth The Page (VIDEO)

As our friends over at Buzzfeed pointed out: The blogosphere was atwitter last night with comparisons between Bobby Jindal and Kenneth the page from NBC's "30 Rock."

Andrew Sullivan found that if you closed your eyes during Jindal's response to Obama, you were sure to see sweet Kenneth Parcell's face float through your head. Sullivan went on to say that he "can barely count the number of emails making that observation."

Mattfraction on Twitter noted that "Within an hour of the speech, a Google search for "jindal kenneth 30 rock" yielded almost 75,000 hits." It now offers more than 85,000.

Our own Jason Linkins saw the undeniable similarities and said:

"If it wasn't such a dead-on comparison it would be catty to say out loud...but there's no denying it: Bobby Jindal was totally channeling Kenneth The Page from NBC's '30 Rock' tonight. (With maybe a touch of 'Moviefone guy.')"

Gawker offers a bet: "$20 on the already-hot Jack McBrayer playing Jindal this weekend on 'Saturday Night Live'," and (maybe most impressively) the Daily What found this .gif of Jindal morphing into Mr. Parcell.

So what do you think? They're both Southern, and they both have weird religious things going on what with Jindal's exorcisms and Kenneth's views that "choosing is a sin" and that hot is "the devil's temperature." They also both have the tendency to look like they're dressing up in their fathers' suits.

Is this the kind of hard-hitting interview we can expect in the 2012 election?

Comments

[starrianna]

04:14 PM on 02/28/2009

All I could think when watching Bobby Jindal was...

CREEPY...

a cross between Michael Jackson & Mr. Rogers & Kenneth...

not good!

[centermom]

08:24 PM on 02/27/2009

You want Cheesy and phoney. How about Barney Frank, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi?

[Nina28]

12:43 PM on 02/27/2009

Oh, my gawd the clip of Kenneth the Page was so uncanny to Bobby Jindal LOL, I can't wait until SNL has him as a cameo in some clip.

[rejoiceinit]

11:31 PM on 02/25/2009

He can't help the way he looks, but he can help his politics. I think it's awful how the GOP keeps destroying the careers of these naive albeit overly ambitious tokens when they are incredibly unseasoned­. I almost feel bad for him...almo­st.

[LeanLeftAmerica]

10:19 PM on 02/25/2009

Palin, then Jindal... ahhh, the party that keeps giving.

[James Parson]

09:30 PM on 02/25/2009

Jindal was channeling Al Harrington president and ceo of Al Harrington­'s wacky waiving inflatable arm flailing tube man warehouse in wiiquia (I know the spelling is wrong)

[jerrypl]

09:01 PM on 02/25/2009

I have to disagree!! Clown Jindal is channeling Sarah Palin!!! He is the male version of Sarah Palin. Clown Jindal should be on the cover of Mad Magazine with Alfred E. Newman. They are near twins.

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[thekeepersstar]

08:53 PM on 02/25/2009

I looked to my husband a minute in and said I saw the comparison­, I was one of those who posted it on Facebook, twitter, and myspace...­I'm glad others saw it too!! Hilarious!­!! I hope to see a SNL skit on this!!!!

[learntofly]

08:02 PM on 02/25/2009

Great hulu clip. Jack McBreyer can clog too - lol.

[RobinSeattle]

07:44 PM on 02/25/2009

Some people are comparing the way he delivered his speech to Mr. Rogers, but I thought it was more like Connie Chung. Chung has often been criticized for reading the news like she was reading a fairy tale to a child and Jindal falls into that same patronizin­g, overunctio­us class.

And make no mistake, the GOP has been telling little more than fairy tales for the last 50 years.

[AndThenOneDay]

07:33 PM on 02/25/2009

I still think he's more of a tan version of Gilligan: http://www­.imdb.com/­media/rm14­83905024/t­t0057751

[AnotherHuddy]

07:28 PM on 02/25/2009

I thought of Huell Howser when I first saw it.

[sja11]

07:04 PM on 02/25/2009

i feel bad for anyone who can't use Hulu, its better than youtube

[buzzcowboy]

06:59 PM on 02/25/2009

The fact that he's on his way to Disneyworl­d makes that comparison so much more apt. Rad.

[bob8788]

06:43 PM on 02/25/2009

Jindal is funny he walked in that room looking like an indian Mister Rogers, my little brother was laughing so hard