Janet Reno Confronts Her Impressionist
David Tanny
Saturday night to confront -- Janet Reno, at least the make-believe version
who has been a regular staple of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" program.
Impressionist Will Ferrell, who has portrayed the Clinton administration
Cabinet officer on the program for years in skits in which she is depicted
as intimidating, masculine and domineering, did so again Saturday night.
This time the Reno skit, which included a slow dance with Darrell Hammond
playing Bill Clinton, ended with the actual Reno, wearing an identical blue
dress, bursting through a brick wall on to the set.
Reno, who earlier on Inauguration Day was still attorney general, told
Ferrell-Reno to "zip your lip." Finally, saying dancing is her favorite
thing, she ended the skit by rocking and swaying with the music with
Ferrell-Reno and the teenagers supposedly partying in her basement.
The SNL program featured several other pointed Inaugural satires,
including one where ersatz newscaster Tina Fey, speaking in Spanish to
housekeepers left behind by Republicans partying at Inaugural balls in
Washington, urges them to find their employers' checkbooks and write
contributions to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood in their absence.
Hammond, in a "cold open" for the program, is interrupted as Clinton in
his tardy final address to the nation from the Oval Office. Ferrell, this
time playing a dimwitted George W. Bush, is disturbed that people still
think Clinton is president. Ferrell-Bush -- proud of the mechanical singing
fish to be installed in his new office -- says to the TV camera that he is
the president, that the audience should get used to it, because it's
something that's going to last -- for an entire year.
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