Will Ferrell SNL Season Finale: George Bush, Dick Cheney (Darrell Hammond) Reunite (VIDEO)

The fact that former Vice President Dick Cheney has been going on a media blitz criticizing President Barack Obama has not escaped the sharp eyes of SNL. On last night's season finale, hosted by SNL legend Will Ferrell, Geroge Bush and Dick Cheney were reunited as Cheney prepared to do an interview on "Meet the Press." Hilarity ensued.


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[Bitsko]

07:11 PM on 05/20/2009

The chemistry of acid in the face! LOL!

[BlueZoo]

02:45 PM on 05/18/2009

Loved this skit, particular­ly the line re Cheney being on TV more than the ShamWow guy! Had me in stitches! The best part of the SNL finale, however, was seeing Amy Poehler doing the news again! Dang but I've missed her clever writing and that little laugh of hers!

[Tyler-Durden]

11:07 AM on 05/18/2009

excellent sketch

[PhilipTaylor]

06:18 PM on 05/17/2009

Chainy (sic) will not let this go away - EVER!
Release all the files including his favorites!
Only FULL Investigat­ion will make Chainy happy!

He needs his day in court so he can prove his case under oath!

[deadcustodian]

04:58 PM on 05/17/2009

The conversati­on depicted last night on SNL between these two worms actually did happen!

[CrankyCurmudgeon]

04:20 PM on 05/17/2009

Farrell actually takes quite a swipe at Biden. I love the characteri­zation of Cheney as "the one guy who scares me more than my dad." Reminded me that George W. was just about the perfect antitheses of what a man ought to be . . . strong, independen­t, respectful of others, and a real protector, not some fear-monge­ring, hateful brute - ready to use violence at the drop of a hat.

[SmallChange]

08:47 PM on 05/17/2009

He scares me more than my dad too!

[bernusdellus]

05:02 AM on 05/18/2009

I used to think George HW was a regular guy. Then, after reading about his lifelong career with the CIA as a 'dirty tricks' guy, his membership of Skull & Bones, directorsh­ip of the Carlyle Group and his almost certain, but hotly denied, presence in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963, etc. I realised that he grew up to be a true son to his father, Prescott Bush, who owned, amongst many other things, a chunk of Adolf Hitler [via the Union Bank - shut down by the FBI] and all of Richard Nixon.

Bush Junior probably got the same kind of grooming, but wasn't suited to the job. Now they're getting ready to punt Jeb.

3 generation­s of Bushes have pillaged the world in general and the US in particular­. No nice guys there, I'm afraid.

[WhatDaBleep]

02:43 PM on 05/17/2009

Wouldn't Play - I guess Cheney got it Yanked - Cheney and AH got a think going?

[RTIII]

03:05 PM on 05/17/2009

Played for me, noon Pacific, May 17...
.

[CrankyCurmudgeon]

04:05 PM on 05/17/2009

Ya . . . it gacked Firefox for me too, but I rebooted and it played - this time without the lead-in commercial for that new French restaurant­, McDoneux's­.

[autumnimprov]

02:41 PM on 05/17/2009

I changed the channel from SNL last night when there was a woman w deformed hands & arms as the laugh in a skit. I never use the 'you people' line, but...what is wrong w you people? Blind people, people w physical disabiliti­es - there was a time when SNL was funny bc it poked fun at society & at ourselves. Now we see a lot of making fun of the disabled & also cheap adolescent humor toward women (which lost its funniness early in jr high school, btw). Must have something to do w the current head writer, who doesn't seem to be very talented, & it also seems to have something to do w Amy Pohler, who comes across as the mid-adoles­cent female bit-chy self-hatin­g ranter we left behind in the 60s.

I still think Darrell Hammond is genius & Tina Fey (esp w the material that writes itself) last season was so funny. But what's up w Loren Michaels? Why has he ceded the show to such mean-spiri­ted, nasty, petty white-boy writing? Just not funny - just destructiv­e, actually. Pohler might have a lock on some comedy club action in NYC but she doesn't show any humor on SNL (even tho yes I know she finally had a baby & moved on) & Seth Meyers is just ridiculous­. Snark they seem to know. Humor they don't seem to know.

It just sucked. We really don't look to SNL to dumb us down even more.

[stagebandman]

03:48 PM on 05/17/2009

First, sounds like you haven't watched the show much this year.

Second, LIGHTEN UP! It's comedy. It's been the same since '75, some things work, more don't.

Third, I thought this show rocked. The sketches were great, all the guests didn't detract from the comedy, and the commentary was, as usual, spot on. You should have stuck it out. It was a million times better than the deplorable Tracy Morgan episode.

[ldavis24]

12:49 PM on 05/19/2009

It wasn't mean spirited or nasty. Why are you so sensitive there are people with disabiliti­es of all kinds who find the show hilarious

[mlaiuppa]

02:26 PM on 05/17/2009

It's a shame this is the season finale. They're going to miss lampooning some great stuff this summer.

[green108]

01:57 PM on 05/17/2009

"That's one of the many reasons why I'm no friend of libraries.­"

Best line.

[zerepas]

02:06 PM on 05/17/2009

nah, its "History takes forever"
and "if you ever wanna 'Biden' it up.."

[davispty5]

02:56 PM on 05/17/2009

LOL! I thought the same thing. Now getting a burger with a buddy will be known as Biden' it up.

[CynAnne]

12:36 AM on 05/18/2009

Although, green108, Ferrell's delivery of "Yeah, the chemistry of acid in the face.." was pretty close to perfection­, and that last zoom-in shot on Darrell's 'Cheney sneer' was just scare-tast­ic, I tells ya! LOLs all the way around - kudos SNL..! ;) ...

[Bizu]

01:28 PM on 05/17/2009

goodjob SNL!!!!! funny...an­ything making fun of the GOP makes me laugh and happy!

[LMPE]

01:17 PM on 05/17/2009

A great skit. The best of course, was the Celebrity Jeopardy spoof (Tom Hanks plays himself, portraying himself as a klutz).

[wanj]

01:02 PM on 05/17/2009

Here is the video....

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=tEQVc3LJ7­m4

[Altx]

01:27 PM on 05/17/2009

Thanks.

[donitacurioso]

01:00 PM on 05/17/2009

SNL was really good last night. I laughed a lot. I was actually surprised that I was laughing that much. Ferrell's opening monolog was great!

[ywcachieve]

01:18 PM on 05/17/2009

That skit was crap.. You don't call a former president, 'Mr. President'­.

[Brothaman2k]

01:46 PM on 05/17/2009

Ummmm, yes.... yes you do. Henceforth and forever Barack Obama will always be known as "Mr. President"­. So will Bill Clinton and so will Bush.

It's a "respect for the office" thing. You might wanna look stuff like that up first.

[Altx]

01:59 PM on 05/17/2009

Yea, pretty lame. But I found this quote from an old etiquette book about addressing ex presidents­, for what it's worth :

"....an ex-preside­nt is addressed as "Mr." as in "Mr. Carter" .....very close friends or former staff sometimes use "Mr. President.­"

[sheaintsayin]

01:39 PM on 05/17/2009

I agree; the monologue was very well done!

[AdV2k1]

12:50 PM on 05/17/2009

That was really good. I laughed allot. Great job SNL