President Craig Belushi
To be honest, I’m glad that the media is no longer focussing on dialect and conversational tone as if it were an indicator of intelligence and relevance. I just hope they remain this enlightened under the next Republican president, or in regard to Republican governors of northwest states.
That said, this response from the President’s press conference at the G20 conference reminded me of a great skit from Second City, in which John Belushi plays Craig, a college student trying to pass an oral test on the Treaty of Brest Litovsk:
“The uh… social, the economic, and the political conditions which… existed… prior to… the war. Differed greatly from the… social, the economic, and the political conditions which existed… after the war. Now… France… France had nothing to do with this particular treaty, goes parallel to it… Russia…”
I’ll tell you what, Craig, why don’t you start with the provisional government up until the treaty and its ramifications.
“The… uh let me rephrase that… we must all realize… that the… provincial government… provisional, that the provisional government was, indeed, provisional…”
It’s a great skit. You can find it on The Second City: Backstage at the World’s Greatest Comedy Theater•, though I don’t recommend paying full price. This and some of the other skits (such as The Glass Menagerie as rewritten by David Mamet) are hilarious.
- Obama Embarrasses Himself Once Again Without His Teleprompter: Curt at Flopping Aces
- “Another uh, ah, uh answer to a question that didn’t say anything. Almost sounds like a Miss Universe contestant answering the “how would you make the world a better place” question. But lets give him the benefit of the doubt. I mean how was he supposed to know there would be a question about the global economic crisis while attending the global economic conference?”
- The Second City: Backstage at the World’s Greatest Comedy Theater•: Sheldon Patinkin
- This retrospective on the Second City comedy troupe includes some nice anecdotes—but it also includes two CDs filled with great comedy sketches, from Sportz and Glass Mamet to Motivational Speaker and Brest Litovsk.
More What If Bush Done It?
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- President George W. Bush ignored critical advice from intelligence advisor five months into presidency: “We need to go on a wartime footing now!”
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- How much is the media ignoring Elizabeth Warren’s problems?
- They’re ignoring her so much that my crappy little satire web site comes up on the first page of results for common searches such as “elizabeth warren lawyer representing insurance company” and “did elizabeth warren pass the bar exam?”
- Media debate: Bush or Romney at fault for economy?
- As the United States economy stalls again, newspaper and television reporters debate the important question: who is at fault?
- Bureaucracy or conspiracy?
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