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It's National Redhead Day, so we celebrate you and the big redhead Bill Walton would have turned 72 today. Trash. Trash. Trash. Oh, and John, Tatum O'Neill turned 61. Don't tell me you didn't have a crush on Tatum O'Neill back in the day. Yes. Tatum O'Neill for sure. And as for, yeah, I remember when my hair was red, it used to be, it used to be, it was election day, so we have here the list of Saturday Night Live is 50 years old. Now here are, pick your favorite, the presidential portrayals over the years. We'll go chronological on you. The Richard Nixon, that was Dan Aykroyd. The Gerald Ford was, of course, Chevy Chase falling down. That was the opening of Saturday Night Live, I don't know how many times in that first season. Jimmy Carter, a number of them did him, but Dan Aykroyd was probably the best Jimmy Carter here. Ronald Reagan was played by Joe Piscopo, Randy Quaid, and Phil Hartman. Hartman was pretty awesome. George H.W. Bush. This is Bush 41, Danica. Do it. Yeah. I think to that point, to that point, that was probably the best presidential or the funniest presidential portrayal. Then came Bill Clinton. There were a couple of good ones. Phil Hartman and Darryl Hammond. I think I liked him. Well, God, both of them. They were both. They were really good. I think Phil Hartman did the one in the McDonald's. There's going to be a lot of things we're not going to tell. Yeah, we're not going to tell Hillary. That was the Phil Hartman one. George W. Bush. Number of them did George W., but Will Ferrell did it. Pretty good, George. Barack Obama was Fred Armisen and Jay Ferrell. That's right. Donald Trump, a number of people, Alec Baldwin, who was not in the cast, but did those cameos. Then a guy named James Austin Johnson does it, I guess. And Joe Biden, Jim Carrey, and Dana Carvey, Dana Carvey does a good one. My favorite out of the book, George H.W., the Bush 41, it was not the closest impersonation, but it might have been the silliest one. The lip biting, the clinton, the thing biting the lip, and the thumbs up, and just that kind of smarmy look on it. That was the Daryl Hammond one where he would just do that thing, and that was good. But the Chevy Chase was great because he didn't even try to look like Gerald Ford. He would just fall down. That was really good. Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones, you know, his autobiography, his autobiography came out a few years back, and he did some interviews, which garnered a lot of attention for some of the crazy things Quincy Jones said in those interviews. What was Quincy? He passed away at what? 91? 91. He had a good long life and had a lot of fun. So in one of those interviews, he was asked about the Beatles, and he said, "Oh yeah, I'm at Paul McCartney when he was 21." And the interviewer said, "Well, what were your first impressions of the Beatles?" This is a quote now, quote, "They were the worst musicians in the world. They were no playing mofos. Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard, and Ringo don't even talk about it. I remember once we were in the studio with George Martin, and Ringo had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldn't get it. We said, "Mate, why don't you go get some lager and lime, some shepherd's pie, and take a half hour and relax a little bit." So he did, and we called Ronnie Verrell, a jazz drummer. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says, "George, can you play it back for me one more time?" So George Martin did, and Ringo says, "Yeah, that didn't sound so bad." And I said, "Yeah, bleepity bleep because it ain't you." Great guy, though. And then on meeting the Pope, meeting, he did get a chance to meet the Pope. He and Bono and some other musicians were in this group that had met the Pope, and he said, "All the guys in the Vatican had these Vatican black shoes, but not the Pope. He had on some burgundy wingtips, man, with thin tan ribbed socks, man. We had to go and kiss his hand before we left, and when I kissed his hand, I looked down, and saw those shoes, and it just fell out of my mouth." I said, "Oh, my man's got some pimp shoes on, and he heard me." The Pope, the pimp, Quincy Jones, they're doing a pay tribute to him at Garfield High School, where he went to graduate Thursday night with a performance there with the jazz band, Brad and John, 92.9k ISM, Grand Funk Pickens this morning.
As today is election day, we focus on the best Presidential portrayals over the years on SNL! Plus, we look back on some of the saucy Quincy quotes from the Quincy Jones autobiography!