Clinton's final days

November 2, 2000 6:36 AM

Clinton's final days - this whimsical take on what Clinton's doing now that he hasn't got much time left is pretty funny. I'm amazed that they got Clinton to appear in it. What a good sport, he actually seems kind of likable in this thing. Not that I'd blow him, mind you.
posted by beth (9 comments total)

I think this qualifies as old news...
posted by Aaaugh! at 7:01 AM on November 2, 2000

Doh. Sorry. It was new to me. Sigh. I looked to see if it was mentioned here already at metafilter, and saw no indication that it was... Ah, well.
posted by beth at 7:16 AM on November 2, 2000

New to me, too, since no previous incarnation I've seen has been in QuickTime, and thus accessible to me through my company's firewall. So thanks, beth.
posted by MrMoonPie at 7:41 AM on November 2, 2000

Yeah, the reason Clinton appeared in it is because the White House produced it.
posted by daveadams at 8:37 AM on November 2, 2000

Yes, it was presented by him during his speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner a few months ago. I saw the whole thing while watching C-SPAN and it was friggin' hilarious. Bill Clinton can be seriously funny. Jay Leno came on right after him and was totally upstaged by Clinton's routine. I sometimes imagine that in other parallel dimensions, Clinton was a stand-up comic and late night talk show host. I wonder if in retrospect he wishes he was as well.
posted by donkeymon at 10:36 AM on November 2, 2000

I sometimes imagine that in other parallel dimensions, Clinton was a stand-up comic and late night talk show host. I wonder if in retrospect he wishes he was as well.

But in that dimension would Jay Leno be president? Letterman, I could cope with, but not Leno...
posted by holgate at 11:35 AM on November 2, 2000

I suspected that, while it was produced by the White House, Jay Leno's writers were responsible for most of the jokes. Not that the delivery isn't perfect ...
posted by dhartung at 11:53 AM on November 2, 2000

Actually, provided certain republicans don't get their way and have Clinton thrown in jail the second he becomes a normal citizen for that little perjury issue awhile back, Clinton will probably go straight from politics to acting. Personally I prefer that over how Reagan did it.

Imagine a modernized version of Bedtime for Bonzo starring Clinton! Now THAT's frightening!
posted by ZachsMind at 8:32 AM on November 3, 2000

No, in *that* dimension, Johnny would be president.
posted by baylink at 1:31 PM on November 3, 2000