Robert Smigel Pro-Tip For Teasing Barack Obama
Say what you will about You Don't Mess With the Zohan ("it looks terrible," "it looks horrible"), it has an undeniable pedigree of amazing talent behind it. Written by Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow? As painful as the movie looks, it gets a begrudging pass on the strength of Smigel alone. The Onion AV Club has an interview with him today, which on the one part it's great to get to read an interview with him, and blah when he talks about the movie. It was written in 2000. It's too bad irony died on 9/11 but this project survived. But he also has some tips for political satirists in the coming years:
The Onion: It seems like Obama would be a difficult subject for satirists.Robert Smigel: I think he has a lot of funny moves that people will be able to pick up and imitate. I think Obama and McCain are both funny. They're just no Hillary. There's just too much going on there for either of those guys to possibly compete. For Obama, it could be a John Kennedy situation where everybody is going to invest all this hope and optimism, idealism, but John Kennedy was probably the first president to be subjected to a great deal of satire once he was elected. Maybe it was because he had a funny accent.
Funny moves? What are Obama's funny moves? Does he mean these funny moves?
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Posted by Gabe at 2:25 PM in Interviews
Tags: Adam Sandler | Barack Obama | Election 2008 | Judd Apatow | Robert Smigel | You Don't Mess With The Zohan
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