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‘SNL Weekend Update Thursday’ Spoofs Mitt Romney Video

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday September 20, 2012 @ 9:44pm PDTTags: Fox & Friends, Fox News Channel, Mitt Romney, Saturday Night Live

!!!SPOILER ALERT…SPOILER ALERT…SPOILER ALERT!!!

UPDATE: NBC has posted a clip of the spoof, which we’ve added below. Scroll down to view.

You won’t be surprised that Saturday Night Live‘s primetime special SNL Weekend Update Thursday opened with its funniest, and most timely, routine — a send-up of the secret video of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The show took it on via a parody of Fox News‘ Fox & Friends. (It featured Tarran Killan as Steve Doocy, Vanessa Bayer as Gretchen Carlson, and Bobby Moynihan as Brian Kilmeade.) Their version of the video showed Romney, played by Jason Sudeikis, saying he won’t win the votes of 47% of the country who don’t pay taxes. But he adds “I don’t mean senior citizens. And I don’t mean members of our armed services. And I don’t mean Southern whites…When I say ‘these people,’ I mean black people.” The Fox & Friends hosts then show other secret videos of Romney at a McDonalds (“How do you people eat this garbage?”), being caught in Discovery Channel’s Cash Cab, and secretly singing in a shower. His song: “Oh, poor people hate having jobs…” The sharpest jab came at the end when the fake Fox & Friends scrolled a long list of corrections needed from the first two hours of the show. (One says: “Angela Merkel is not a palindrome.”)

Seth Myers led most of the rest of the show from the Weekend Update desk. His best line was also about the secret video: “Just because Mitt Romey said something doesn’t mean he believes it.” They brought Bill Hader on to impersonate James Carville, but instead of parodying him Hader simply portrayed the political commentator behaving oddly. Things went downhill from there: A fake ad for a video called Convention Cutaways, and Moynihan joining the news desk as a character called Drunk Uncle who dispenses disjointed riffs about how the world has changed for the worse.

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‘Fox & Friends’ Duped By Fake Romney Supporter: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday September 17, 2012 @ 11:11am PDTTags: Fox & Friends, Fox News Channel

What was supposed to be a segment on how the U.S. unemployment rate among young people could hurt President Obama‘s support in that demo turned out to be open-mic night for aspiring comedian Max Rice. Appearing as … Read More »

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Fox News Producer Staying Put After Obama Video Flap

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday June 1, 2012 @ 12:44pm PDTTags: Chris White, Fox & Friends, Fox News Channel

It looks like Chris White is keeping his job at Fox News Channel. White was the associate producer at Fox & Friends credited with creating a four-minute video critical of President Obama that aired on the morning show … Read More »

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Is Fox News Producer Who Made Scathing Obama Video Out Of A Job?

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 5:59pm PDTTags: Chris White, CNN, Fox & Friends, Fox News

Fox and Friends Anti Obama VideoIs Chris White now a producer without a network? CNN isn’t hiring him and Fox News isn’t talking, a day after a scathing Fox & Friends video segment on President Obama ran that … Read More »

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UPDATE: ESPN Drops Hank Williams Jr Permanently; Singer Says It Was His Call

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday October 6, 2011 @ 8:14am PDTTags: Barack Obama, ESPN, Fox & Friends, Hank Williams Jr, Monday Night Football

UPDATED: ESPN cut Hank Williams’ traditional lead-in song from last week’s Monday Night Football telecast after the country singer compared President Barack Obama to Hitler during a spot on Fox News Channel’s Fox & … Read More »

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Hank Williams Jr Apologizes For “Dumb Statement” Comparing Obama To Hitler

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 4, 2011 @ 4:40pm PDTTags: ESPN, Fox & Friends, Hank Williams Jr, Monday Night Football, President Obama

Hank Williams Jr apologized on his website today for using an odd President Obama/Adolf Hitler analogy. Williams’ comments on the Fox News Channel show Fox & Friends yesterday got him in hot water, and ESPN yanked his theme song from Monday Night Football over the controversy. Williams wrote the … Read More »

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Hank Williams Jr Song Pulled From ‘Monday Night Football’ After Singer’s Obama Remark

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday October 3, 2011 @ 6:25pm PDTTags: ESPN, Fox & Friends, Hank Williams Jr, Monday Night Football, President Obama

Tonight’s Monday Night Football game will not be preceded by Hank Williams Jr’s famous opening song. ESPN pulled the opening after Williams compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler this morning on Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends. ”While Hank Williams, Jr. … Read More »

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