Andrea Shea King on Big Hollwood about SNL and bias

Gerald Ford, a offensive and defensive football star for the University of Michigan, was probably the best athlete ever to serve as president. While commander-in-chief, the Ford slipped and fell a couple of times--who hasn't?--which inspired Chevy Chase on the then-new NBC show "Saturday Night" (the "Live" part of the moniker followed the next year) to portray the man who turned down contract offers from the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions as a hapless klutz.

Presidential parodies have been part of "Saturday Night Live" ever since, in my opinion the best of them was Dana Carvey's George H.W. Bush.

Although the October 3rd SNL was tough on Obama, Fred Armisen's portrayal of the 44th president is about as funny as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reading two year old baseball box scores.

And as Andrea Shea King reports on Big Hollywood, that's the way SNL wants it.

The show doesn't want to do to Obama what Chase did to Ford.

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