“Through the roof!” 😂 this is hilarious. Love the Lovitz!

I think Jon Lovitz would do a great Ted Cruz impression. And I still laugh at his SNL work from the glory days

@danmseattle975

3 жыл бұрын

He certainly would be better than Aidy Bryant.

If his campaign slogan had been "Never turn your back on a Greek", he would've won.

I'm trying to find the episodes of Dukakis After Dark but KZread doesn't seem to have them. Phil Hartman as drunken Ted Kennedy is a riot!

Jan always had the best smile

@kevinmunger1842

7 ай бұрын

Yeah,,,that's the ticket!

One of the funniest skits ever! Thanks for the memories!

wow that’s the best Carter impression they ever had on this show. Also the Dukakis impression is so damn funny

@rockyroad7345

5 ай бұрын

Nobody could touch Dan Ackroyd's Carter impression...or Nixon's.

Phil Hartmann and John Lovitz together are a riot 🤣🤣

Holy hell this is so funny- I love Lovitz

Still a classic after all these years.

Only 6,000 views and mine is the *fourth* comment? Oh I'm on the deep hidden side of SNL. 😂

Who would've guessed 35 years ago that the lyrics to that parody Joan Baez song would become the platform of the DNC.

@schlechtgut8349

4 ай бұрын

Can't you just enjoy a decent skit?

The gold standard of snl

Back when SNL knew how to make fun of both parties.

@kevinmunger1842

7 ай бұрын

SNL still does and always have. Blame the subject matter.

@Beerman111980

7 ай бұрын

They very rarely mocked Obama if at all, I'm trying to think of a good sketch mocking him and can't think of one. Maybe I'm wrong.@@kevinmunger1842

Phil, Jon and Jan♥️

Phil Hartman lights up every scene

@titojohnson7141

4 ай бұрын

Kennedy was a terrible drunk at this time. Someone like Hartman sure did a great parody!

This is literally a Reaganomics Commercial For H.W. Bush

Time for a 'Biden After Dark' after last nights performance!

Lovitz is underrated and a helluva tennis player (ask Norm!).

Federal matching funds. You paid for half of this.

SNL would never ever produce anything like this in 2022.

Lovitz should do a Biden. $3.75 for regular unleaded. 😢

I'm trying to find the skit where Dana Carvy plays jimmy Carter are an election monitor in a tumultuous country election. Anyone seen it lately or now it's tile?

As true today as it was when it was written!!!! RIP America 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I think the Horton guy was impersonating the black villan dude in RoboCop

They should do something like this for both Biden and Trump

This and the Clinton McDonald's sketch are probably their best political sketches ever.

@lockandloadlikehell

7 ай бұрын

Nah The GWB/Al Gore debate and The Dukakis debate sketch

Why did I just discover this today? 😅

2:44 I had not been born yet when this would've aired (I was born in 2000), but the thing that seems kinda eerie to think about when watching that is that while yes, Michael Dukakis's defeat in the 1988 election is partly explained by the fact that George H.W. Bush promised not to raise taxes at the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Bush would obviously go on to break that campaign promise anyway during his presidency, doing so in 1990. After George H.W. Bush did so in 1990, that became easy ammunition for Bill Clinton's campaign in the 1992 election and then goes on to partly explain why Bush ended up losing re-election in that race to Clinton. Also, soon George H.W. Bush became a political pariah in his own party after the tax raise in 1990 and losing the 1992 election to Bill Clinton-the likes of which the Republican Party hadn't seen since Richard Nixon's demise into disgrace-and that led to the radicalization of the GOP with figures like Newt Gingrich, who of course became Speaker of the House under Clinton after the heavy Democratic losses in the 1994 midterms that caused both chambers of Congress to flip from Democratic (The Democrats had dominated Congress since Herbert Hoover's presidency!) to Republican. In all honesty, the aftermath of George H.W. Bush being elected in 1988 after eight years of already having GOP rule in the White House under Ronald Reagan (who was already one of the most conservative presidents in history up until that point), with expectations of the Bush administration largely following Reagan's policies, along with the fact that clearly Michael Dukakis's campaign was beset with many mistakes, basically led to all of this: George H.W. Bush didn't really meet Reaganite expectations since he raised taxes, and mentioning Gingrich from earlier, the 1990 government shutdown that was caused by Bush's reneging of the campaign promise and making a deal with Democrats in Congress was actually Republican-led, largely led by Newt Gingrich who at that time was a little-known Congressman from Georgia. Basically, in the aftermath of George H.W. Bush's downfall with his defeat by Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential election, Bush ended up ceding being the face of the Republican Party to Gingrich (and obviously Newt Gingrich was quick to repudiate George H.W. Bush and his policies, although oddly enough Gingrich's tenure as Speaker of the House during the Clinton years is when we clearly see conservative Republicans, as they do today, fawn over Ronald Reagan's presidency in retrospect), and not only did Newt Gingrich accelerate Reagan's moving of the GOP further right, but this radicalization and the massive hatred the Republicans had for the Clintons, especially on Gingrich's end, is what led to Bill Clinton getting impeached in 1998. Michael Dukakis himself said in an interview in 2008 that he really wished he had won the 1988 election, because without George H.W. Bush, there wouldn't have been a George W. Bush presidency either, and unsurprisingly Dukakis accurately put the blame for the Iraq War the Great Recession on the younger Bush (I'll admit I don't totally blame George W. Bush for the Great Recession, but his administration was very much oblivious to the economic omens). But the crazy thing to now think about is that not only did Michael Dukakis losing the 1988 presidential election cause George W. Bush to get in the White House following the craziness of the Florida recounts against Al Gore in the 2000 election, but Dukakis's loss and the factors regarding taxes as to why he did may have very well led to the later radicalization of the GOP that we see with Newt Gingrich in the Clinton administration and all of this quite frankly, with political motivations, is why Bill Clinton got impeached. To this day, I still find it incredibly ridiculous the reasons why the Republicans impeached Clinton. From what I understand, the Founding Fathers intended for impeachment to be used in a way to prevent the president from jeopardizing national security-Bill Clinton's perjury about his extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky was far from that. Also, with figures like Gingrich having been known for affairs, along with numerous other Republican politicians at the time, it was clear it was completely hypocritical when they kept bashing Clinton as some immoral person.

@John_McDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

Ken Burns, is that you?

@howardgofstein9694

2 жыл бұрын

Of course, taxes were never raised on the richest among us GOD FORBID,,,,,,,,,.....Doing THAT wouldn't have hurt either candidate. Things are no better now than prior to the Revolutionary War, when all those poor souls on both sides died for absolutely no reason. We working folks keep bending over and grabbing our ankles.

@PKMNFan4664

2 жыл бұрын

@Liver Success I'm not sure I agree. The early '90s recession may not have even been as bad because of the breaking from Reaganomics. The main point I was getting at though is that one of the last things that should've happened was Newt Gingrich becoming Speaker of the House.

@WilliamSelassie

Жыл бұрын

i was 20 in 1988 and take it from me, the SNL depictions of Dukakis did a lot to help Bush win

@PKMNFan4664

Жыл бұрын

@@WilliamSelassie Again, so much for NBC being "liberal".

Who played Lloyd Bensten in this sketch?

@ianwallace3082

2 жыл бұрын

That's Matthew Modine, who was the guest host for this episode.

@ryanloftis1125

2 жыл бұрын

@@ianwallace3082 Thank you. I had no idea who it was.

@Myndir

6 ай бұрын

@@ianwallace3082 Afterwards, the real Lloyd Bensten wrote to Modine and said, "Guest host, you're no Jack Kennedy!"

portlands anthem

Same as it ever was.

I see you

So much for "liberal bias".

@johnx5891

Жыл бұрын

LOL... you do know this was the 1988 presidential election?? THIRTY-FIVE years ago. The leftist monopoly of media, academia, law enforcement, medicine, Hollywood, social media, and Congress wasn't fully implemented.

That song, strangely enough, describes Democrats quite well today...

@bettym7346

11 ай бұрын

Every line of that song, lefty mantras. Eerie forecast.

6:38 Was she in the hot tub scene in AUSTIN POWERS?

@rickh9396

7 ай бұрын

That's Alicia Coppola, and she's smokin hot!

Wow, SNL would never parody Democrats like this now. Amazing.

@VideoAmericanStyle

2 жыл бұрын

Not true. They parody Biden all the time in the cold opens.

@EvesRevenge

4 ай бұрын

😂 we dems cleaned up our act and there is little to mock/spoof in the camp. This is bc, the absurdity and dystopian and shockingly scary GOP Congress and their King is calling the shots…so there’s so much better content parodying the GOP. Sadly so…

@lemfarba4827

4 ай бұрын

@@EvesRevenge You've certainly cleaned up your act. The crisis at the Mexican border, the Afghanistan withdraw, the skyrocketing food prices, Hunter's laptop, the politicized FBI and Justice Department, etc. are all proof of that. Dystopian is a word Democrats should never ever use. Dystopian are Democratic run cities like Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, New York, San Francisco, etc.

@cameron6262

2 ай бұрын

​@@EvesRevenge actually it's because Democrats can't take a joke anymore.

@matthewgeddis8870

2 ай бұрын

Democrats has been hi jacked woke media

Oh the memories...of when SNL was worth watching... didn't even need a barf bag ! Now...for at least 25 years..pure garbage !!!!

Remember when SNL mocked Republicans AND Democrats? Good times...

This was back when SNL was still funny.

@BrianRetro

Жыл бұрын

Never was funny and you know it.

When leftists/Democrats had a sense of humor- and actually could poke fun at themselves!

@titojohnson7141

4 ай бұрын

Well, you guys like to storm the capitol when things don't go your way!

Ah when they were funny.

SNL back when it wasn't a media arm of the DNC.

@bobbykiriakidis9753

Жыл бұрын

Not really they massacred Regan hundreds of times including Dennis Miller and he is a CONservative. Get yer head out a yer arse

Dukakis Would Have Been Better Than Reagan.

@robskyle

Жыл бұрын

@M W I know people who voted for him just to get him out of MA

Conservative SNL? Bit disgusting

@Myndir

5 ай бұрын

Triggered?

Back when snl knew how to be adults when losing.

@VahanNisanian

3 жыл бұрын

Not the biased and one-sided crap they have become in recent years.

@lking1540

3 жыл бұрын

@@VahanNisanian so true. They don't even try to hide it anymore.

@steveconn

2 жыл бұрын

They mock Biden's polls regularly.

they sure hit the democratic party right on the head. they would all be taken for a ride if they did this today. democrats once could laugh at themselves. those days are long gone.

did victoria vote for joe biden?

Back when SNL was not woke and actually poked fun at everyone. Today it is impossible to watch because it is not funny!!

hahaha why are you lughing? for getting the Bushes for 16 years? or because the world was laughing with U.S.A for 16 years?

@danthemankhan

2 жыл бұрын

[Bush voice] I think those figures may be inoccurate.

@steveconn

2 жыл бұрын

Twelve years.

@dianapevtsov

2 жыл бұрын

@@danthemankhan - "Inoccurate" is how Maude Apatow would pronounce it.

Perfect Democrat party theme song

Back when SNL was funny. What a joke they are these days.

@masterelmstreet5886

Жыл бұрын

RepubliCUNT says what??

These sketches were so long back then. A sketch should never be longer than 5 minutes.

This skit is funnier after learning both George Bush presidents were homosexuals.

@bettym7346

11 ай бұрын

Where did you learn THAT

@Myndir

6 ай бұрын

How shameful!

@space__idklmao

3 ай бұрын

I wish…