For 45 years, Saturday Night Live has given sketch comedy followers a motive to remain at residence on weekends, and up to date occasions — this yr specifically — have confirmed simply how helpful that tv custom actually is. To complete out the most recent season amid manufacturing shutdowns, even the solid and crew of the present needed to improvise with an all-new “SNL at Home” sequence, with the solid Zoom-ing of their sketches that helped make gentle of the very heavy information surrounding us all.
It is a time-honored custom for SNL to carry humor to some tough moments in present occasions, significantly on the subject of distinguished political figures. So to rejoice the sequence discovering a brand new streaming residence at NBCUniversal’s Peacock — which launches on Wednesday, July 15 and can provide SNL streaming for free with adverts — we wished to have a look again by the SNL vault and bear in mind among the all-time finest political impressions that the sequence has ever produced.
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From Phil Hartman‘s unforgettable run as Ronald Reagan to Will Ferrell‘s “strategery”-filled takes on George W. Bush to extra up to date impersonations like Amy Poehler as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jay Pharoah as Barack Obama, and Kate McKinnon as completely everybody, click through the gallery below to revisit SNL’s best political impressions.
Peacock launches on Wednesday, July 15.
PHOTOS: Saturday Night Live‘s Best Political Impressions
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