Cold Open: Petraeus Hearings - Saturday Night Live
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General Petraeus testifies before Senators Clinton, McCain and Obama Aired 04/12/08
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My favorite line in this is "lack of agreement between subject and predicate..."
Same lol
Not better than "those squabbly Mohamidans" at 4:43
First time seeing one where Obama is present but before becoming the president. Ancient history
Tricky, Tricky lol keep up...
@@celinecolling9610 ?
@@ultrabigfella isnt it obvious this far removed?
@@mrnobody6447 HUH?
Darrel Hammond was the most underrated cast member ever on SNL. He did some amazing impressions but kind of flew under the radar famewise
I think we would all like to met him and see the impressions up close and ask him about those.
I thought he was going to be the one doing Trump impressions because his is SO spot on.
Angelica Rodriguez I think I read that they didn’t really tell him that he was out as Trump and it was kind of a huge blow to him.
His McCain impression is quite good!
@@AngelicaRodriguez-mb2ld he totally broke down when Alec Baldwin got the job...
It's funny/weird seeing Will Forte play such the straight man in a sketch. I also love McCain's shrug at 6:49 lol
The look on McCain's face while waiting for Petraeus to review his book breaks my heart
Mine too. I hope he found it funny.
I read that book, it was rather good.
@@tidefanyankee2428 no it wasn't, it was the rantings of a senile white supremacist
3:03 "that I and others...WHO HAVE OPPOSED THIS WAR FROM THE BEGINNING..." this is PRICELESS :)))))))))))))))))))))))
In reality... m.czcams.com/video/YtiJqng9jy8/video.html
@@FinancialFreedomFinder they were talking about the war in Iraq🇮🇶, not a retaliatory response from a strike from Iran🇮🇷 to Israel🇮🇱.
She was a New York Senator on 9/11 of course she was in support of the war in Iraq, your clip had absolutely nothing to do with that though.
Cant stand Hillary
@@thisguy9819 nothing in common between 9/11 and the Iraq war
@@ankursharma9019 alot of these idiots refuse to get that thru their skulls.
ah yes, back when they still had to exaggerate politicians' lies for comedic effect
can somebody who edits these make the ending theme song LOUDER please?
ikr
WHAT?! I DON'T THINK THEY CAN HEAR YOU
You are right, Mr Chandler Bing.
Will Forte and Amy Poehler at their best!
The Obama becoming president joke was gold. SNL had no way of knowing he would win over Clinton and McCain.
Really!? There was so much propaganda even my small town video store had a "documentary" about him before he was even seriously considered. He was no different than before the last one.
It aired April 2008, it was basically him and Clinton head to head and Clinton was as bland as she ever was.
The very first time I heard Obama speak, I thought, this gentleman will go far!
He didn't sound like a preacher, which for a Black politician was a new thing.
@@smkh2890 It depended on the setting/circumstances/situation and who his audience was. He can sound like a preacher.
Clinton was losing and the GOP was doomed by Bush.
Compared to current SNL, this is brilliant Mark Twainesque satire. This is so smart and is actually critical of the powerful.
... nah.
@Waldo Wall who Trump? If he were anywhere close to the most powerful person in the world do you think clowning the shit out of him would be the global pastime? Don’t you think the most powerful person in the world wouldn’t allow himself to be publicly ridiculed 24/7?
haha ik what you mean. but i think its bc trump literally acts like a satire, so their jokes just sound like copies of what he says. i mean the dude literally stared at an eclipse without protective glasses. thats hard to satirize
@Waldo Wall idk chief, he's been a serial cheater, fraudster, and racist forever. look up his actions toward the central park five and leading the birther campaign. not attacking you just noting some stuff
@Waldo Wall i mean he was also court in 1979 i think for housing discrimination against black people, then the birther campaign against the first non-white POTUS ever. so yah he's always been like this
I have to say this is the best cold open that I have seen from SNL, I just wanted it to continue all day. Fantastic.
4:31 I died laughing xD Bill Hader is a gem!
Lol at the amount of badges on Petraeus’ uniform!
The Cold Pink depiction was spot on!
Code, not cold
After 7 years AND this still makes me laugh.
Dude u know this is from April 2008 , right? Jesus Christ, unbelievable. It's sad tbh
Wow never saw this till today. Blown away. Really captures the insanity of the iraq war incrementalism. Like a short version of film "in the loop"
Man, I remember this shit from when I was 10-11. It was around the time I first started reading magazines.
people underestimate will forte so much
No way! When he appeared on Flight of the Conchords it was epic. Most people just aren't very sensual to that entire "awkward"-funny and he does it so well. He is the perfect McGruber, also. I wonder if he'd be good in drama.
Check out "Last man on Earth". He's starring in it, and it has a bit of Sudekis
+NeuroticPixieSlasher isn't he also the creator, a writer and a producer on the show?
I never underestimated him, I don't underestimate him and I will never understimate him.
I know
Bill Hader is just fantastic! 🤣
Thank you for the documentary.
GREAT SKIT !
Patreus' poker face is the best thing.
Surprised snl still has this up lol
Hammond really rocked McCain's role! Next to Sean and Bill Clinton I say...
I just came here to hear Will Forte say, "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!"
I thought McGrubber quit military years ago...
Is the chairman played by Andy Samberg? He seriously looks like judge Marshall Eriksen lol
It is Andy. And I do admit, he looks very freakish in the makeup.
Greatest SNL generation !
They forgot the part where General Petraeus actually fainted dieing his testimony!
This sketch is funnier if you don't know the context behind Hillarys' sniper fire comment (had to learn what that was after the fact); first couple of times I watched it, it sounded like she was saying she had a sniper on Petraeus right then and there.
i don't know about the comment. can you elaborate?
She claimed to be under sniper fire while visiting Iraq (EDIT: Bosnia) but video emerged showing this was false, so in the sketch she is trying to say that the video didn't catch it because sniper fire can be very, very quiet especially on film.
@@jonathancampbell5231 Bosnia?
Yes, you are right; it was Bosnia. My mistake.
Jonathan Campbell: why is the sketch funnier if I don't know the context...? I thought, it was just the other way round..???!!!
this is actually amazing
I love how his last name is “Miller”
I’m going to watch “we’re the Millers” now lol
…also Mike Miller from Last Man on Earth.
Byrd was elected from 1959 until his death in 2010??? That shouldn't be allowed to happen. I mean, no matter which party you're from.
jokes are funny but still no americans punished for war crimes and breaking UN law
Nenad Cvijetić.. Ya Ya Ya..... Blah Blah Blah..... Yada Yada Yada..... YOU JOKER 🥴🤦♂️
@@ovrdozzzz i believe you are an uniformed buffoon
Owen Chau.....and the good news my bastard son is that I'm not even American....🤣🤣🤣🤣
yup ... just seems to matter when its an American getting killed
Sh.....you have to get better at a retort, can't use the same lines as I did.....duhhhh.....🤣🤣
As soon as I heard “oldest living chairman…” I just knew they were gonna cut away to Bill Hader 😂
The guy doing Petraeus looks eerily like John Cleese.
No he fucking doesnt
Nah, Will Forte has a much sharper chin and shorter head
I can see it, it’s the eyes
More like Brian Forster aka “Chris Partridge”
lol scrubs janitor in the background
sudeikis is wearing miller
prequell to TLMOE
that was soo clever and funny af
Genialne. Mają talent.
Danka
Excellent channel, SNL.
How good is Will Forte ?? Wow
He plays a great straight man here.
Live from New York , it is Saturn day ice!!! 9:22
How great would it be if hearings such as these were this honest.
This is a classic.
…like a bugle sounding on a forsaken battlefield…
As an ex-patriate American of 40 years standing, I am very proud of SNL, one of our best recurring products and standards.
Sums up the idiocy of our elected officials fairly accurately.
Our? Only amerikkkans would "elect" these racist murderers
"frequent use of non-words" LMAO
remember when hagen daz was big...it was near the age of bon bon, right on the heals of the klondike they seemed to come through a peppermint patty. Ever Hear of the Comedian he had Good Humor..
Super close ringer for Pres. Obama
Brilliance...
9:08-9:13
Best part 😂😂😂
YES
darrell hammond you are a frikkin genius!!!!!!!!
Totally misread this and thought it was an Oscar pistorius 😅
who landed here from watching this last 2 weeks of Afghanistan news.
He's going to be the next President. No offence
It's like a current situation wow
As a guy from the Middle East I can’t agree more ☝️
Game recognize Game
When did MaGrubber become a 4 star general?
Is that "Christopher Guest" sitting behind the gen.?
Never realized code pink was in SNL 😂
I didn't read any of these books. Was the assessment accurate?
Hillary got me 🤣
u dont know who steals the oil huh ?! :D thats the REAL comedy
Bill is a GOD AMONGST MORTALS!
Bill hader?
SNL female cast members have mastered the art of Hillary Clinton 😂
was it in your reccomend too this day ? =D
@@Lin3r yeah youtube algorithms thought I should see it 🤣
So much so that they scare me even more than the original..
The sad horrible thing about this skit ....it's pretty much true to life . And all we do is laugh.
I'm watching this on December 28, 2019.
Apple bees and Best buy's and others come when cites hit 50000 demographics
The guy is gonna be the next president, no offence
Long shot but who is the Actor who is behind Will Forte ?(not sudeikis).
Why did Hillary Clinton ask about sniper fire?
Because she lied about 'being under sniper fire' when landing in Bosnia, when actually she got off the plane and talked to people for an hour afterwards
wow... the good old times of SNL when you could make fun of hillary clinton.
now it's just PC cesspool. shame on you SNL, shame on you 'lefties'
they have a better circus and a better clown to mock now...
bitter much, kimmel black?
@@corkygobshite9941 he obviously is.
I thought Patreus had a chance to run for the presidency,... in 2016.
Isn’t it amazing how the science fiction of the past as well as the comedy seems to foretell the future, I say a resounding YES !
They actually made fun of hillary! Different times
It' s Tandy from Last man on Earth !
Truth
The first to like this sketch must've been General Petraeus himself.
funny bcuz is true
SNL should be part of the High School Curriculum.
The first senator character sounds exactly like William Friedkin, director of "Chinatown" and "The Exorcist".
What an obscure reference, Mr. Gumby.
@@fuzzybits410 "My brrraiin huuurts! Are you the brain specialist???!"
Even before he had been nominated SNL had predicted Obama’s win!
It was quite easy to predict, Obama has overwhelming mainstream support
i'm right but this was so so funny
Was he turning into an alien 😂
best snl video on clinton
lol this is the SNL of old i miss.. shots fired at all sides. Make fun of everyone.
awesome script writing
turns out
SNL make fun of everyone, they don’t care 😂. That’s exactly how those people look in the background!
Would’ve made it even more perfect….Paula Broadwell emerges from UNDER the table. 😂
V good
im from iraq lol
And there's no index.
Did fred armison do black face for this?
No, they just did his ear and hair
A lot of death, a lot of suffering, a lot of profit, a lot of pocket's lined and resources stolen.
But a sweet fast-food court.
What is a senator?
awesome, but don't understand joke with the sniper
Hilary once claimed she flew into Yugoslavia and got shit at by a sniper but on the videotape it didn’t happen mate
Shot I mean 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@marksmitten4721 nice, i got it )))
Looks like that guy from Monty Python.
Yes. People are still dying even 5 years after this... and the laughter goes on?
I heaven' seen some thing make me laugh. For5min. Before