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Originally posted: January 11, 2009
'SNL' spoofs Blago, Burris & Maddow
Posted at 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11
Even as a parody, Gov. Rod Blagojevich is defiant.
The first “Saturday Night Live” of the new year opened with a spoof of “The Rachel Maddow Show” in which Blago, played by Jason Sudeikis, took on the MSNBC host (newcomer Abby Elliott) by incorrectly calling her the names of several famous lesbians—from Billie Jean King to k.d. lang, and even Kyle MacLachlan (who, by the way, isn't a lesbian).
Maddow questioned Blago about the Illinois Senate voting 114-1 to impeach the governor.
“Mm-hm, yeah, closer than I thought,” the fake Blago said. “You gotta understand, getting impeached in Illinois is nothing. It’s like a prank. It’s just part of the swearing in ceremony. You got me, k.d. lang.”
Asked when he'd leave office, he said, "Never."
("Weekend Update" anchor mentioned Blago as well, saying "On Friday the Illinois House voted 114 to 1 to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich on charges that he tried to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. The sole dissenting vote was cast by first term representative, Schmod Schmagojevich.")
Blago’s embattled U.S. Senate appointee, Roland Burris, also got the parody treatment Saturday. In the Maddow skit, Keenan Thompson played Burris, who repeatedly used the same line to describe how he was turned away from the Senate and other places in Washington.
“I was told my credentials were not in order, and I was kindly escorted out of the building,” the fake Burris said.
It was a good open for a show that, to be honest, wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. I was looking forward to Neil Patrick Harris’ hosting gig, but most of the skits weren’t that great. In his opening monologue he mentioned how he had almost hosted in 1990, when he was a child star on “Doogie Howser M.D.,” but “SNL” went with Fred Savage of “Wonder Years” instead. I thought for sure they were going to trot out Savage, which could have been classic. Instead, they had a fake Mark Wahlberg and his entourage heckling Harris.
Harris’ monologue:
Good: David Frost
OK: Save Broadway
Not good: Fran and Freeba
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