The press has nothing on Obama Girl when it comes to fawning over the candidate as portrayed in their opening skit last night on SNL. I give the skit a thumbs up, but I have to give Fauxbama a thumbs down. He looked or sounded nothing like Barack Obama. And after they hyped it up in the press about who was going to play him, it was a bit of a let down.
Cross posted at A Revolution of One.
Fred Armisen just did not live up to the hype. He just happens to be a white guy, which I have no problem with. Darrell Hammond did a great Jesse Jackson. Of course Jesse Jackson gives you a lot to work with in terms of speech patterns, facial expressions and body language. And that was part of the hype, that Obama's character and mannerisms were too generic to easily mimic. I don't know if that's true or a cop out for not having someone who could do him. Obama isn't as distinctive a character as Jesse, but there's definitely something to work with there.
The skit worked anyway, bad Fauxbama notwithstanding. Amy Poehler made a great Hillary Clinton, because she's Poehlerizing. Get it, her name is Poe... And she's Poehlerize.... Ok forget it..