Meet Michaela Watkins, newest member of the SNL troupe, doing her Arianna impression. And ha! It's pretty good. Especially how she incorporated her dorm room or whatever into her audition tape.
But if Lorne Michaels was going the political route for the rest of the season and trying to keep cashing in on the post-election viewership, why not hire a guy who looks reasonably like Obama? Not that there is anything wrong with Fred Armisen, but he just plays it so straight, and it brings up that issue of how do you make fun of a guy who represents real change and hope for our country? Blah bah. You guys know what I'm talking about.
But hey, at least Michaela will make a good Michelle Obama? And her Arianna is still way better than Tracy Ullman's.
Michelle Obama's Election Night earrings, white-gold, diamond-encrusted, dangling things that blinded bitter Republicans when the spotlight hit them, reportedly cost the First Lady-elect a cool $11,000.
How is this any better than when Sarah Palin adorned herself in luxurious clothes and jewels? For one, Obama didn't purchase her earrings with donations from Democratic supporters. Nor did she bemoan "rich elitists" for weeks and weeks before buying the accessories.
That said, when will everyone come to their senses and stop spending thousands of dollars on something as stupefyingly useless as jewelry, which has the same root word as joke?
Obama fever has, for better or worse, officially extended to include his two adorable daughters, Malia and Sasha. We wonder about which schools they'll go to in DC, and they are fashion trendsetters for the elementary-school set. With all of this attention directed their way, there's a line just asking to be crossed.
On the bad side of that line would be an appearance on Hannah Montana. Billy Ray Cyrus, father of Miley, the show's star, told Access Hollywood that he invited the younger Obamas to make a guest appearance on the show (for ratings, obviously) and that they "probably will." Over Michelle and Barack's dead body, I think.
The Obama family has already been given delightfully awesome nicknames, and by "nicknames" I mean code terms the Secret Service uses to refer to members of the family, although since this is already leaked on the Internet it's not so much a "code" now and just more of an "awesome nickname," so my original point stands.
Anyway, all the Obamas have names now beginning with the letter R, and they are way better than those of the Clinton family, who were referred to as Eagle (Bill) and Evergreen (Hillary), or the Bush family which was Tumbler (George W.), Tempo (Laura) and Sheepskin (George Sr.).
If you guys ever want to use your ham radios to listen in to your Secret Service station, get ready for President-Elect Renegade.
Click here to check out a great Flickr set of behind-the-scenes photos of Barack Obama, family and friends on Election Night. Seeing how calm and collected he was while waiting for the results on probably the biggest night of his life should help ease the worries of even the most rabid Republican. It's also cute to see how excited his daughters were.
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Future First Lady Michelle Obama has already influenced many housewives around America through, of course, her sense of style. Last night's red and black Narciso Rodriguez dress has divided the nation, giving Us Weekly a great "Love It or Hate It?" column for this week, but most of Michelle's numbers have been clear yays or nays. Maria Pinto has likely profited the most from this phenomenon: The designer's duds have been spotted on Michelle throughout the campaign and has attributed to a 45 percent spike in sales.
After the jump: The best of the best and the worst of the worst, because the new First Lady's style is what really matters this election season.
Joe Biden avoided dancing on a recent episode of Ellen, but Barack Obama wasn't so lucky during a remote taping for the show yesterday.
What a tangled web our bloody, shameful, slave-ridden American history has woven.
A genealogical study has found that silvern newsman Anderson Cooper's great-great-grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt, once owned Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather, Jim Robinson, on Friendfield(!!!!!!!!!), a 3,000-acre plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina.
Whitney Tower, a budding author and cousin of Cooper's who still lives in Georgetown, has now invited Obama to visit Robinson's resting place at Friendfield. Obama has yet to accept the offer, probably because walking amid tremendous wealth tended to for decades by one's enslaved ancestor and people like him, many of whom are now buried underfoot, is equal parts infuriating, creepy and fucking depressing.
If her husband is elected, Michelle Obama would be the first First Lady with slave roots.
Update: Whoops! The Daily News has updated their article to include the information that the Vanderbilt family did not own Friendfield in the slave era, meaning Cornelius Vanderbilt never owned Jim Robinson—some other horrendous, lazy pig did.
Michelle Obama, whom Jon Stewart jokingly referred to as a "known associate of Barack Obama," made the talk show rounds yesterday, hitting up Larry King Live and The Daily Show. On the latter, she said that she prefers not to watch the debates because she gets "nervous." She also described Cindy McCain as cordial and said that reporters and commentators makes much ado about nothing when they analyze handshakes and snubs. She has to say that, though.
Remember that New Yorker cover that portraying Barack and Michelle Obama as fist-bumping terrorists and everyone was like, "Racists!!" and The New Yorker was like, "You're all hella dumb?"
Well, would real racists come out and officially support Obama with a 4,214 word editorial about why he is the best and our current government and John McCain are the worst?
When is this damn softball player going to quit playing coy and get a show on Fox News with which to spread her bile?
SURPRISE: MAINSTREAM MEDIA UNDERHANDED! "'Hillary Rodham Clinton is still seething about losing the nomination.' 'Michelle Obama doesn’t like her country and is an angry black woman.' 'Bill Clinton continues to dis Barack Obama privately.' While hardly definitive, that’s some of the undercurrents swirling in much of the news coverage — particularly television news, some say — at the Democratic National Convention. 'I’m just amazed at the negative coverage, all the negative innuendo of things that do not exist,' former Clinton adviser Terry McAuliffe told Daily Variety. 'It’s all press invention.' … A veteran network producer said she has been 'mesmerized by the negative coverage. It’s unbelievable.'"
Michelle Obama spoke last night at the Democratic National Convention, but the real stars of the show were daughters Malia and Sasha, who took the stage to be adorable and wish their dad goodnight via satellite. These two girls are way better than the Bush twins.
When we think of politics, the first thing that comes to mind is fashion. And thank goodness celebrity handbag designer Timmy Woods created a piece representing Barack Obama and his campaign for the presidency. Ready to be impressed? The bag is made from Acacia Wood and is based on signs used by the Obama camp. Ooookay.
Woods said Michelle Obama will be the first taker, whether she likes it or not: "I hope she will get it in time to wear to [next week's] convention."
Tyra Banks has finally fulfilled her wish of making Barack Obama's run for the presidency all about her. In the September issue of Harper's Bazaar, TyTy poses as America's First Lady (God help us if that ever becomes a reality) and discusses how Barack's progress affected her.
When Barack won the nomination, I just started bawling. I started calling all these people, and everybody was talking to me like I was crazy. They’re like, ‘Well, he hasn’t won yet,’ but I’m like, ‘Yes, he has, because he’s gotten this far.'
And, because Tyra's the authority on all things presidential, she offered up her inane advice to Michelle Obama (to which Michelle is hopefully like, "No thanks").
I want [Michelle Obama] to not take herself too seriously. She’d need to know how to take a fierce picture, but at the same time be able to eat fried chicken, have grease on her fingers, and be okay with getting photographed like that, too.
DO YOU HAVE TO LET IT LINGER? "Smartypants magazine editor to CNN: If Comedy Central can do it, why can't we? That was a good part of New Yorker editor David Remnick's argument to Wolf Blitzer about the controversy the current issue of the magazine has whipped up by portraying Barack Obama and his wife as a couple of gun-slinging, bin Laden-loving terrorists on its cover. Remnick likened what the magazine has done to what 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' do every weeknight on television. He said the point of the cover was to satirize the many right-wing rumors and innuendoes that have spread virally about the Democratic candidate."
Project Runway judge and catchphrase coiner Tim Gunn on lady style of the presidential campaign:
THE KISS OF DEATH "View co-host Sherri Shepherd can't contain her admiration for potential first lady Michelle Obama. 'She is so poised, gracious, intelligent, charming and funny. … I would love to have her as a first lady!'"
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