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Carvey explained that “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels asked him to play Biden, 81, after the comedian started doing impersonations of the president on his podcast. He compared it to his past spoofs of George Bush Sr.Frank Fritz and Mike Wolfe’s ‘American Pickers’ feud explained
“I tried to do that treatment to Biden and I did it on here with our YouTube clips,” Carvey said. “Extrapolating it, making it silly and weird.”He went on, “I didn’t see it out there enough, a Biden impression. A lot of brilliant Trumps, Shane , James Austin Johnson. Biden is trickier. But, for me, part of that continuum of getting that high energy part of him. And that didn’t come out until maybe six months into his first term where they asked him some question and he got kinda mad.
“The true north star is to try to make it funny and not really get it to be a political message, per se,” he explained.“I didn’t write it down or, you know, sharpen my pencil that he would say, ‘I can’t believe it’s not butter!’ with declarative intent,” Carvey continued, referring to the moment in the skit where his Biden mixes up his words while trying to say “Build back better.”“It was ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’” Carvey revealed.
Biden has been spoofed by Jason Sudeikis, Woody Harrelson, Jim Carrey and Mikey Day on “SNL” over the years., Andy Samberg as Harris’ husband Douglas Emhoff, Jim Gaffigan as Harris’ running mate Tim Walz, Austin Johnson as Donald Trump and Bowen Yang as Trump’s running mate JD Vance.
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