China Debt Cold Opening - Saturday Night Live
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China would like their money back. Aired 11/21/09
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That kissing joke was quite unexpected and phenomenally well pulled off...
I have never laughed so hard🤣
Doesn’t even look chinese and still nailed it. This is why I love Will Forte!
Hu sounds like Kim 2
Speaking utter gibberish for 7 minutes with a straight face has got to be rough.
They shouldn't have.... super easy to get a good script and stick to it. Reminds me of blackface when they do superfluous gibberish.
Politicians do it all the time.
US senate
Classic MacGruber!
Will Forte never breaks character.
The good ol days, when it was only 800 billion
@@shogun8971 You're thinking the total debt. The debt to China is about a trillion.
right? hahahaha
@@brooklyna007 I don't think they. ever expected to get paid back or they would not keep lending us money. Which, buy the way, does not come in the form of money, but of Chinese goods. It is international economics, and I won't say that I understand it, but the Chinese must be getting something out of it.
@@milascave2 They still get paid interest every year. The US pays off old debts it is just that new debts are made. Chinese investors are fine buying US debt because they have always gotten paid back on schedule.
@@brooklyna007 not to mention the vast majority of our debt is owed to ourselves, which has always been paid as well. They can only fear monger about our debt because people fundamentally don’t understand how government spending actually functions. People just see a big number, translate that to what they know in their own households and assume it’s the same.
I'm Chinese and I laughed so hard for 7 minutes that I almost chocked to death hahahahahahahaha this is f**king amazing and brilliant!!!!
Indeed
This is one of the best ever. I have watched it like 20 times. It is so good. EVERY one of them have an equal share and all of rhem are wonderful. So Creative and so well done guys.
Loved Will Forte's impression and I am Chinese lol
LOL !! That Hu Jintao actor did a great job keeping a straight face talking gibberish for so long :))
Will Forte
Gibberish? That was flawless Mandarin.
i think the chinese president is a big fan of Eric Cartman.
haha, no the writer is
+Justin ^o^ this sketch came out before that South park episode
Exactly what I was thinking
I
wasn’t this way before the iPad episode
LOL. . . This has to go down as one of the funniest sketches i have seen on tv. I've shown it to alot of my asian friends and they all pretty much react the same way as i did, laugh so hard we all watched it repeatedly for the second and third time. Who cares if there is no asian actors. It a comedy sketch the objective is humour and they delivered it freaken beautifully. Humour is rare in the world these days so take it for what it is and enjoy it man. : )
This Will & Nasim tag team is wonderful.
I really miss Nasim.
I miss MacGruber
Me too
After Chairman Xi, I really miss Hu Jintao!!
She was awesome on SNL. Should have had a longer run on the show
They sat there with a straight face for 10 minutes while talking gibberish. Too funny
Nasim is so damn beautiful
WTH was i doing with my life that i missed this when it 1st came on? absolutely hilarious!
five years passed by and the US debt with China grows from 800B to 1.3T. #scary
not getting smaller is it?
@@SingRaduga And 200 to Germany....
I wouldn't be surprised if China occupies US in 2030 just like it took over Tibet.
Time to bring out the Bounty Hunter.
@@supergirlvideoclips894a brain washed idiot said something........em, I guess you haven't even read any Tibet history. The person like you who judge other counties ignorantly really make me sick!! A country with lots of colonies is not China, which country is it?
Chinese museums are full of their own collections. Wbich country has the largest collection of looted objects from all over the world?
They seriously need an Asian cast member.
I agree
Chang Li Fred was actually partially japanese
+Maja Jonsson is he dead ?
***** hhahah no but 'was' as in former castmember
+Chang Li Thought so too. They only have like 5 black people, the rest are white people.
Her accent kills me!
3:37 "I like to be kissed when someone is ........" OMG LOL
SNL should really do more political satire. This was really good and funny.
I’m reading this 5 years later and now that’s all that they do 😭
The comment aged very poorly.
Ughh SNL listened to your comment 😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕
Now they've turned into F Trump.. no comedy just propaganda
They already do.
Fun fact: as a Chinese I can see almost every episode of SNL on line in China except this one only. I have to use VPN to see this, which means most Chinese can not see this. But I do wish our president have see this since this is so brilliant and funny.
+Angelo Shen So the great firewall is not really working as it should... You can't fight the power of internet, no matter what you throw at it.
+Angelo Shen I don't get why you wouldn't be able to see this in China. It's making fun of the US and the jokes are just brilliant!
+Angelo Shen Oh, he's seen it. I'm sure he sends it as a response to every world leader who asks for favor
lol don't be naive! anything that is somehow political is banned in mainland China (except for those ones that can boost the party's own power). Can you believe that the movie The Giver is banned because there's a tankman clip for, i don't know, half a second in it? And that most of the Chinese people don't even know about the tankman? Man, that's just horrible. Speaking as a Chinese person who has lived in the mainland for fucking 17 years. Thank God we have VPN.
Chandan Sinha Because there are still a lot of people in China who are not well educated and are easy to be manipulated by toxic American Media and turned against their own people. People like me who know how to use VPN are usually mature enough to know every government lies, but American government is the biggest lier.
The translator girl is amazing. She is playing so well the role of a Chinese. Both her atitude and accent are on spot. Westerners saddly are too concerned about crap like races, to recognize and apreciate true talent anymore.
David Green Its a bit high tho
An absolutely flawless sketch.
But according to Fox News comedy shows 'never' made fun of Obama...
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THIS IS MAKING FUN OF OBAMA,THE US OWES THE MONEY NOT OBAMA
This sketch would not be made today because:
1) The guy playing Chinese president is not asain and thats rac|ssss.
2) The translator is not asian and that's rac|ssss.
3) China owns most media in the US now days.
Yeah it was pretty even with how much they made fun of trump, good point Pop5678eye...they definitely make fun of Trump equally 🙄
@@BillClinton228 obama's actor is also not black so theres that.
@@UnderTheBridge96 Trump earned a lot more hate than Obama. Nobody is claiming they were covered equally. Stop being a whiny little bitch
I love watching this skit, it was well performed and hilarious. Because of the fact that during this time it was actually true.
It's STILL true.And it's going to be true until the Earth is consumed by the Sun's corona in 5 billion years.
Jintao is his given name. Hu is his surname. So it should've been President Hu.
gtyuo
As if the Americans would give a damn about such things
FlushHouse Yea, I know right... They kept calling Osama by his dad's name, so...
It’s not that serious...
Man when this first aired i cracked the F up.. easily top 10 best opens, maybe the best
The quote the most esteemed Chinese president was looking for, is the one from "Pulp Fiction."
Snl is probably the only show that can tackle on all kinds of political, racial, or gender issues, make fun of all these, and get away with it. Hope this program goes on forever.
ychengf South Park can do it to
as long as it's not about lsrael
This comment aged poorly
@@clivedickson9845 like milk lol
This is a racist sketch
Debts between Nations would be solved quicker if Powerful Politicians would speak as plainly and as directly as this.
I love how McGruber kept in character even for the final "LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!"
People saying this sounds more like Japanese than Chinese evidently haven't heard much Japanese or Cantonese/Mandarin.
This doesn't even sounds like Japanese lol.
It's Cantonese.
This never gets old.
Really loved this sketch.
3:35 - absolutely Nasim (you - not Jintao).
😍
Scarily accurate 😊
I saw this sketch with Bill hader, and as much as talented he is he didn't come close to performing as great as Will Forte. What he does with a character is so unique and magnificent. And of course Nasim and Fred are brilliant as always. This skit is so underrated. I absolutely love it. 😂
This was simply brilliant!
Spot on Chinese Prez! Impressive
"cash for clunkers" Classic lol
LOL
The first flaw here:
"...I would like to thank President Jintao..."
It should have been "President Hu".
Chinese first names are actually their surname.
Like with Xi Jinping, Obama always addresses him as "President Xi".
Bram Manurung Its also more convinient to call him President Hu so yea
the only worse thing than being called President Who is President She
Americans are not very bright.
Jay pharao still does the best obama Impression
They should do a satire of that Alaska meeting with Blinken
More of this please 😂😂😂
The line about "reckless real-estate speculation" has aged wonderfully.
most funny SNL stick of my life
What I like about the Chinese is they never use the "F" word !!
You clearly have not met the same chinese people as I have.
We use the "T"word,"TMD"😂
Cao ni ma kid
This was legendary. Imagine something soo soo funny, like this in today world.😊
These people are so great that get the suspension of disbelief all the time, even with the craziest skits and hardest characters
hilarious, just hilarious. way to go ,SNL.
Idk why Nasim is Persian but she seems good at being a translator for the Chinese president
This skit randomly come to mind every here and there come watch 😅😅😅
0:11 What's BEINING?
This sounds like a banker yelling at a debtor and making him reorganize his finances
The Chinese premier is rude. What is 800 billion between friends!
Oh the Pulp Fiction reference @5:53... looooool (and the rest of the sketch)
Naseem is The MVP in this skit!
That is a really good roast.
His chinese is spot on.
No it's not
In tears🤣😂😂🤣
What does Marsellus Wallace look like?... Say "what" again!
Where's Bobby Lee when you need him. X)
Dino Sabalić ikr!!!
Also this is the rarest sketches in which the actor made an attempt to make the accent sound as close as what the actual language sounds like.
In any Persian related sketch they just impersonate Arabic language. You HAVE Persian cast for god's sake. Just ask them to tell you what Farsi sounds like!!
Hu is Hu Jintao's surname.
He's being played by a white guy.
Obama is being played by Fred Armison.
I approve of all of this.
cash for clunkers was a major reason why there's shortage of spare parts now for 90s and early 00s cars.
Hu Jing Ju's dialogue sounds like a Tarantino movie.
Hu jintao. Not hu jing ju
Only 800 billion?
I'm here in late 2024.
We DREAM of only 800 billion.
as a chinese i cannot understand a single word said by the actor who played Hu (yes, Hu is the family name). kudos to the actor for staying with a straight face. snl has a serious pool of talents. that to be said, they need an asian cast member. glad they got Bowen Yang in 2019 as a full-time cast member.
Who?
He sounds like he's speaking Japanese more than any Chinese dialects lol
Uhhh no. It is actually a pretty good simulation of Mandarin or Cantonese. And respectfully done too.
It doesnt sound japanese. For sure
Brilliant
Wow this is gold 🤣
Comedy on Obama's stupid projects. Political satire, SNL doing things like Monty P and I'm loving it.
Fantastic.
In all fairness to SNL, they did not actually go easier on Obama. Every sketch from this era seems to be highlighting how he's not so great in some aspect.
But where are the Biden sketches?
@@g4l430 They're on break right now lol just give them a second and I'm sure they'll find something to say.
love it
This is similar to one south park episode where cartman blackmails his mom into buying stuff. episode name was Humancentipad.
Not to worry, those 800 billions in foreign debt were carefully handled, and are now more like 8 trillion.
This bit is hilarious................from back when SNL was funny............😁
SNL doing South Park. LOL!!!
I suppose I could say I was an investment banker who needs his bonus . . . .
A great sketch from back when SNL wasn't complete shit
It's still funny.
Are there no East Asian actors on SNL?
Are there any Asian comedians really? I mean except Chong? From Cheech and Chong? Didn't he die?
LOL. Tommy Chong from Cheech and Chong is very much alive. He's also from Alberta. Wouldn't really call that very Chinese.
How Do Ya Like Me Now, Chucklehead? But he is of Chinese extraction, right? I'm just saying ... no asian comedians on SNL.
Phil McGroin
His mother was Scottish, I think, and his old man was Chinese, so there is that reason for the surname, I guess, but that's about the sum of it.
I can't recall any Asian comedians on SNL, but I doubt that's for some sort of prejudice. SNL is pretty damned pregressive as far as TV programs go. Come to think of it, the only Asian I can think of on a skit show is Bobby Lee and he was on Mad TV, not SNL.
+How Do Ya Like Me Now, Chucklehead? Isn't Nasim P. Asian? The girl you see in the sketch translating.
That lady who is 'translating' is hilarious. What is her name?
Nasim Pedrad! She's great!
This is really funny.....
It’s because it’s true lol we do owe China money lol 😂
'Merica iz the greatest country on tha planet yo ! xD
Lol
or at least it is what 'Merica thinks.
"I believe it's 800 billion dollars. Such a large sum."
Oh... uh...
"DOING SEX TO ME!" lollllllllllllll!
haha, nice appearance impersonation but i think the language, tone and body language felt japanese
He said all the plans you have to save money involve spending even more money. Wow, thats exactly whats happening now with the Inflation Reduction Act lol
I don't care you are... This is funny!!!
They couldn’t do this in 2020. Actors playing a different race is now taboo no matter how well you look or sound the part.
I don't think it's a problem as long as they don't darken their skin or something of that sort. I do think that is better in 2021 tho, because back when this came out their only options was to cast white people as a different race because they didn't have a diverse cast. Same thing goes for when SNL was doing those The View sketches and they didn't have enough women to play all the characters so they just used men.
We'll just print bunch of money. Problem solved!
The impression though...
The “Chinese “ sounds like some Southern Asia language! Funny
i know its a skit but honestly its the reality.... China has the upper hand
a real Asian looking person...too funny and too true
ROLF! 😃 😄 😅 😆 😉 😊
Did South Park get their idea from this or vise-versa?
Chinese president can't speak English but can understand wow
Understanding a language is often easier than speaking it, so why couldn't this be the case in real life too?
every single leader in the world can understand and speak english even if partially. but they don't speak it because they take pride in speaking their own language.
do you know about headphone translators right