Saturday Night Live parodies of George H.Saturday Night Live parodies of Joe Biden.Beck Bennett played Clinton once, in 2013. Dana Carvey once appeared as a "young Clinton" in a 1996 sketch where Bob Dole ( Norm Macdonald) uses a time-machine. Michael McKean briefly played Clinton after Hartman, at the end of 1994. Others Ī 1994 sketch had several cast members auditioning to play Clinton, including Chris Farley, David Spade, Chris Elliott, Adam Sandler, and Tim Meadows. Hammond has returned as Clinton several times since he left the cast, and has played the part on the show over 90 times. Telling Clinton that he felt foolish, the president replied "I think you look terrific." He also did an impression of Clinton as part of a 2001 White House Correspondents' Association dinner performance, after Clinton left office. According to Hammond, he met Clinton at the White House before the event "in full Clinton drag". In 1997, he appeared as Clinton at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner. In the sketch, Clinton dreams of the life after his presidency, and Lewinsky is his wife. SNL's ratings rose at the peak of the Lewinsky-scandal, and when Monica Lewinsky guested the show in 1999, she appeared with Hammond's Clinton. Like Hartman, Hammond has been considered one of SNL's best political impersonators, and on the show he parodied several other American politicians. Darrell Hammond (1995–2019) ĭarrell Hammond took over the role during his SNL tenure from 1995 to 2009. Among his 18 appearances as Clinton, a December 1992 sketch, in which Clinton enters a McDonald's and eats customers' food while talking about politics, has been noted as a successful one. Phil Hartman was the first cast member to portray Bill Clinton and did so until he left the show in 1994. Clinton.īill Clinton: Jim, let me tell you something - there's gonna be a lot of things we don't tell Mrs.
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