# So you've been elected President... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473 "2005-12-13T20:30:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/1 "2005-12-13T20:30:01Z")
Which Saturday Night Live cast member, past or present, would do the most devastating impersonation of you? I would like to think that a Dan Ackroyd, or Mike Meyers might be me. But probably Adam Sandler, for the ball scratching, a trademark of the Zebra presidency, or maybe that little tweerpy guy that did the new words sketch in the dark times. So who would do you, and what would the sketch feature? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/2 "2005-12-13T20:34:50Z")
Who use to play Joe Pesci? That’s the guy to play me. Play up my quick temper and quick to apologize without the violence. Have fun with my mangling the English Language. Jim ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/3 "2005-12-13T20:38:38Z")
It was Jim Breuer, he is even close to my age. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/4 "2005-12-13T20:43:48Z")
I’ve been told I look like Dan Aykroyd. And Al Franken. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/5 "2005-12-13T20:47:46Z")
Chris Farley’s about the only one who could mange my presence. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/6 "2005-12-13T21:00:18Z")
Dan Aykroyd. Stupid genetics. People tend to think it’s a compliment, too, which is annoying as well. -Joe, has also heard Kyle MacLachlan and Matthew Perry, for what it’s worth ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/7 "2005-12-13T22:39:22Z")
OK, I’ve no knowledge of SNL, but I reckon Bill Clinton would do a pretty wicked impression of me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/8 "2005-12-14T23:03:19Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Dan Aykroyd. > > Stupid genetics. People tend to think it’s a compliment, too, which is annoying as well. > > -Joe, has also heard Kyle MacLachlan and Matthew Perry, for what it’s worth I’ve heard exactly the same about me. Could we have been separated at birth, **Merijeek**? Time to go check out the chair in the Oval Office… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/9 "2005-12-14T23:48:59Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > …or Mike Meyers might be me. Well, anyone that’s met me will attest to the fact that I look like John Mellencamp and Mike Myers had a kid, so I guess Myers would be my most logical choice. > [@](#): > > or maybe that little tweerpy guy that did the new words sketch in the dark times. Tim Kazurinsky. > [@](#): > > So who would do you, and what would the sketch feature? The sketch would probably involve my bad habit of confusing two well-known names at any given time. For instance, I can never remember which is Tennessee Williams, and which is Tennessee Ernie Ford. So you can see where hilarity would ensue at, say, a UN meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/10 "2005-12-15T00:32:40Z")
I’m tallish, skinny, and sarcastic. Norm MacDonald. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/11 "2005-12-15T00:34:51Z")
Molly Shannon. It would be basically the Catholic Girl grew up to become a semi-narcissistic bipolar power-drunk nerd girl president. There would be uncontrolled flirting, severe Oval-office slacking, and at least one make-out session with a picture of President Clinton. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/12 "2005-12-15T01:04:17Z")
Eh, probably Phil Hartmann. Yes, I know, but I have about as much chance of becoming president as he does of coming back to life. I don’t know how he’d make me funny; that’d be his job (and the writers’). ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/13 "2005-12-15T01:27:42Z")
> [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > I’ve heard exactly the same about me. Could we have been separated at birth, **Merijeek**? I’m going to take a wild guess that almost everyone you meet knows someone who looks **exactly** like you. Irritating, eh? -Joe, so good they made millions ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/14 "2005-12-15T09:24:24Z")
Al Franken, though I’d really prefer guest host Rowan Atkinson to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/15 "2005-12-15T09:50:57Z")
Definitely Dan Akroid. I’ve been told many times that we bear a striking resemblance. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/16 "2005-12-15T11:14:44Z")
John Belushi. We have a similar build. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/17 "2005-12-15T15:17:12Z")
Past deceased SNL- Belushi or Farley Present living SNL… … hangs head in shame… Horatio Sanz… or maybe Rachel Dratch in that fat suit from a couple of weeks ago. I don’t care who does me as long as I can do Maya Rudolph! 😃 or Tina Fey! 😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/18 "2005-12-15T15:27:19Z")
Gilda, but she’d have to wear a chubby suit. (too bad Kathy Najimi isn’t on SNL) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/19 "2005-12-15T15:28:21Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Dan Aykroyd. > > Stupid genetics. People tend to think it’s a compliment, too, which is annoying as well. > > -Joe, has also heard Kyle MacLachlan and Matthew Perry, for what it’s worth oh, baby, you could do a lot worse! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473/20 "2005-12-16T00:14:31Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I don’t care who does me as long as I can do Maya Rudolph! 😃 > > or Tina Fey! 😃😃😃 Hey! Can I do Maya Rudolph _and_ Tina Fey? And _Amy Poehler_? I’ll take them one at a time, but I’d prefer the ensemble. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-been-elected-president/335473.md?page=2)