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Watch Comedy From Obama, O'Brien, Spielberg at the White House Correspondents Dinner
This year's White House Correspondents' Dinner gave us a few insights about comedy:
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Leftwing Doc-Makers No Longer Easy On Obama
Are progressive documentary filmmakers finished with giving Barack Obama a free pass?
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What's More Inane than "2016: Obama's America" Filmmakers Whining About Oscar?
What's more inane? That Gerald Molen, the Oscar-winning producer of "Schindler’s List "and "2016: Obama's America" and the doc's director Dinesh D’Souza believe they should have been on the Oscar shortlist for best documentary? Or that The Hollyw...
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Obama, Romney and Tom Hanks in SNL's Debate
Were all the “binders full of women” jokes used up? SNL’s debate sketch ignored the most popular satirical target from the last Presidential debate, focusing instead on the candidates' pugnacious attitudes, with the added attraction of Tagg Romney promising to punch the Pr...
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SNL and the Post-Debate Fallout (The Horror, The Horror!)
It’s a good thing SNL had the presidential debate as fodder, because they absolutely wasted Daniel Craig. And while Jay Pharoah continues to struggle with his Obama impression (why the grimace? Obama doesn’t channel Denzel Washington) the sketches included a very funny, perfectly&nd...
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SNL: Jay Pharoah Takes On Obama, But Sudeikis' Romney Steals the Scene (Video)
The best SNL political impersonations capture some essential truth about that person’s character, hilariously exaggerated: Darrell Hammond’s gleeful,hound dog Clinton, Will Ferrell’s squinty-eyed doofus W. spouting words like “strategery.” Fred Armisen’s Obam...
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Watch Clint Eastwood Talk to Invisible Obama at RNC
There are no words . . . even Rachel Maddow was nearly stunned into silence at the end of Clint Eastwood's bizarre, rambling stand-up routine of a speech at the Republican National Convention. You can read a description - that Clint talked to an empty chair, pretending that President Obama ...
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Jon Stewart and the Perils of 'Firstiness'
Jon Stewart added a brilliant new word to the vocabulary of media criticism yesterday: firstiness. Looking over the ludicrous flub in which first CNN and then Fox mistakenly reported that the Supreme Court had struck down the essence of the Obama health care plan – instead of, whoops, the...
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Will Ferrell And Jason Sudeikis Give Us the Secret George W. and Biden
It would take a lot more than a Will Ferrell impression to make me want George W. Bush to return for real, but Ferrell’s always hilarious fake-Bush was the highlight of last night’s SNL. In the cold open, President Obama (Fred Armisen, as usual) entered the bedroom of the Vice Presi...
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Edgy Obama Opens For Kimmel at White House Correspondents Dinner (Video)
We always knew it would be impossible to top last year’s hilarious and secretly dramatic White House Correspondents Dinner, when President Obama slammed Donald Trump – and secretly knew the attack on Osama Bin Laden was underway. But this year's version had its own even edgier t...
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