Comedian in chief: Obama inimitable?

Les humoristes américains s'amusent fermer à imiter leur président. Cet article du NY Times précise que dans le cas d'Obama, Fred Armisen de Sturday night live (SNL), peine à rendre son imitation drôle. Obama a-t-il moins de défauts évidents que W. Bush ou Sarah Palin? Oui... Le vidéo qui accompagne l'article est intéressant également.

"When it comes to political satire, are you better off than you were four years ago?
“The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” remain sharp despite losing many of their favorite targets from the Bush administration. “Funny or Die,” the comedy site whose first video went online in 2007, has become a formidable player, recently scoring with a commercial parody in which Mike Tyson played Herman Cain, off-kilter casting that seems even more creepy in the wake of the sex scandals that caused him to suspend his campaign.

Yet as we head into another general election campaign, “Saturday Night Live,” the biggest national stage for presidential parody, still has not figured out how to make Barack Obama funny. In its long history of mocking presidents, no impression has made less of one.

To be fair Fred Armisen, who has played the president more than 30 times since early 2008, has a more difficult challenge than his predecessors. Mr. Obama doesn’t have a thick accent or easily mocked tics (lip biting, eye squinting). When not delivering a speech, his affect is flavorless or elegant, neither very funny. And would it kill him to have a sex scandal? How about just a rumor?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/arts/television/comparing-fred-armisens-snl-obama-to-dana-carveys-bush.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28