Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Bill O'Reilly Reacts to Dana Carvey's SNL Return as Joe Biden

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

Bill takes time to analyze comedy legend Dana Carvey returning to Saturday Night Live to portray President Joe Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So Saturday Night Live debuted a couple of days ago, 50th anniversary, a fairly big deal. I mean, the show doesn't have the viewership it once had or the cachet, but it's on social media. Most people watch it there. And Dana Carvey, used to be a main part of SNL, appeared as Joe Biden, and he was good. Carvey, I don't know Carvey very well. I don't know him. I shouldn't say very well. I don't know him.

But Dennis Miller, I know very well, says Carvey is really a good guy. So I'm going to play two sound bites. The first one is from 1990, 34 years ago. Go. During my campaign for president, certain things were said. Things like read my lips, no new taxes. And when I said it, I meant it. I meant all three words.

I meant no. I meant new. I meant taxes. I meant them all. But situations change. Spring becomes summer. Sunny days become cloudy up there. Sincere growth projections prove overly optimistic.

expenditures have continued to grow a pair right there those expenditures right in that area revenues remain flat right down here see this gap here that's what I want to talk about this budget deficit the most frightening thing I've ever seen in my life all right a brilliant portrayal of Bush the elder so Carvey unbilled you know they didn't say that he was going to come back to SNL, does stroll on in as Joe Biden go. Folks, that's right. A lot of people forget I'm president, including me. But guess what?

And by the way, I think I did a pretty good job. I passed more bills than any president history. Well, folks, we still got work to do, no joke. I'm being serious right now. Come on. Guess what? And by the way, the fact of the matter is,

the rich don't pay their fair share. They got to pay a fair share. We've got to build back better. The billed back, the better, the better. The better, the better. Can't believe it's not butter. Thank you, Tobit. Thank you so much. I think the man's brilliant.

And you know what the best thing is? it's not malicious. It's not, it's just designed to be satirical and to get some laughs. He's not hating anybody out there. And finally, I guess you guys will remember this, but Dana Carvey lost his son, you know, and I wrote him a note when that happened. There's nothing worse than parents outliving their children, you know? And I, because of Miller, you know, Miller, because I call Miller, I said, hey, you know, what about Carvey? Is he, is he okay? And he's really, really a good guy.

Now, not all of them are like that on SNL. And I'm not going to harpoon him. You know, I had to make a decision doing national commentary when I had to. I left Fox News, I could have gone the bitter road and started to just rip people up. You know, that's an easy way to make money. I think it's cheap myself. And I said, I'm not going to do that unless the person is harming you, the folks. The person is harming you, in my opinion, I'm going after them.

But I'm not going to go after them in a personal way. I'm going to go after them, you know, this is what they're doing, and this is why it's wrong, and this is what should happen. But I know a lot of people in showbiz, a lot. And when I come across somebody who's 100% gets good ratings as a human being, you know, I kind of broadcast that around. And I've been lucky enough to meet so many of them. I can tell pretty fast, you know, who the good people are and who the kind of entitled people are.

What happens is when you get famous, you can go either way. You can become more generous with your time and your money and make people happy because most people like famous people. Or you can become horrible. You know, have a sense of entitlement and just throw your weight around. You can one or the other. And usually there's no in the middle. Usually they go one way or they go the other way. And I pride myself on being able to figure that out.

And I don't hang around with the people that I feel are, you know. In fact, I'll give him a little of this, always in person. I'll give him a little of that. Al Franken is a guy who, and he was a writer on SNL when Carvey, I don't think he wrote any of Carvey stuff. Carvey pretty much does his own thing. So anyway, I was happy to see the whole story. Saturday Night Live thing wasn't as nasty as it was last year, particularly with Trump.

I don't mind satirizing Trump. I mean, my God, you have to, right? But do it in a way like Carvey does it. A little class. And he's funny, Carvey. He's fun to watch. Church Lady, Garth, you know, all of that stuff. So my best to Dana Carvey. I hope someday to meet him.