Angelina Jolie spoof on Saturday Night Live
February 1, 2009 by Sherry
There was a brief Angelina Jolie spoof last night on Saturday Night Live. I have heard through the grapevine that some Angelina fans are offended, but I’m not. It’s SNL after all – they’re equal opportunity mockers, they make fun of everyone so I didn’t mind. It was kind of funny, to be honest.
I can’t even see the video clip because NBC.com won’t allow me to see it since I’m outside of the U.S. (or rather, it’s the other way around, Canada’s laws don’t allow me to see things that are streamed or replayed from U.S. networks, it’s incredibly annoying let me tell you) so it’s possible that not everyone will be able to watch it.
If the video gives you the big “isn’t available from your location” warning, the gist of it is that SNL’s newest cast member, Abby Elliott did an impersonation of Angelina Jolie during the show’s “Weekend News Update. The transcript is as follows:
Seth Meyers: It was revealed on Thursday that the California woman who gave birth to octuplets already has six other children. What? Angelina Jolie? What, what are you doing here?
Angelina Jolie: I heard someone had eight babies…does she want all of them?
SM: Yeah… I mean, I think she does, yes.
AJ: Where’s [your co-host Amy Poehler]?
SM: Oh, she left.
AJ: Did she take her baby with her?
SM: Yeah, she did.
AJ: Too bad, I could always use a new baby.
SM: So, um, are you excited about the Oscars?
AJ: Bye.
Seriously. I really was amused. Were you?
(Transcript courtesy of JJ)
True others have made jokes about her, Jay Leno did so yesterday! Jon Stewart also does it constantly!
I don’t have a problem with that, why you ask?
Because Leno and Stewart are equal opportunity jokesters. They have BOTH made fun of BOTH women.
Leno is a friend of JA and Stewart is a friend of Angie.
They have NOT stated public preference of one over the other and then proceeded to belittle the one left out in the cold.
Can anyone actually tell me, whilst maintaining a straight face, that JA’s life has NO comic moments in it? None that SNL see fit to use?
THIS is the point I was making with my original post!
Oh btw, my question wasn’t intended to suggest that you were deliberately censoring my posts.
That was part of my initial reply.
Oh and Jon Stewart just made fun of CCOBB, cruel but funny. Closely followed by more jokes about Pres Obama, also funny.
UNBIASED fun making? How did he come by such an original idea? SNL could learn something here!
Sherry, thank you! That’s exactly what I was trying to say (the comment about Hollywood and the “teams”)!
Phoebe, interesting that Tina Fey said that, since most people seem to accuse Angie of the exact opposite (at least prior to the twins’ birth), loving her adopted kids more than her biological kids!
BlessBrangelina, what did John Mayer say about the twins’ birth? Oh, and I don’t think JA has that much, if any, amniosty towards Angie. Brad recently said in his W interview that the Angie vs. Jen thing is completely made up by the media. Considering he actually knows JA personally, I choose to believe him over the tabs and media (who DON’T know her personally).
Yes, there were the GQ comments, but I honestly don’t see them as bashing or having an amniosty towards Angie. For example, the joke about the kids. I honestly think that JA was just trying to make light of things (in fact, I think she was just trying to say what Brad basically did-that there is no bad blood between the three of them-but unfourtnately didn’t choose her words as carefully).
That probably wasn’t the time to be making a joke like that, but people make mistakes and I really don’t think she meant it to be hurtful to Angie or Brad (or the kids).
As for her comment about the baby pictures, she was basically just saying she doesn’t agree with the decision and wouldn’t do it (and really, it seemed to me like she was referring more to the donating the money to charity part than the actual selling of the pictures). What’s so bad about that? She has a right to disagree with that decision, and nowhere did she say that Angie and Brad were horrible people or something for selling the pictures.
Also, although her comment sounded like she was implying that it was all Angie’s doing, we need to remember that the media often twists what celebs say (case in point: The whole “blob” controvesory, as well as Angie’s comments about feeling more for Mad and Zee Zee because they’re survivors). It’s very possible that Jen’s actual comment DIDN’T imply that it was all Angie’s doing, but GQ twisted it so it sounded like Jen was attacking Angie.
In terms of the “uncool” comment…Angie herself once said that her kids think she’s “uncool”. Therefore, I have a feeling that comment didn’t bother her that much, if at all. I mean, Angie has been called far worse things than “uncool”!
UNDER MOD- Response to BlessBrangelina
Oh, and BlessBrangelina, you can ignore my question about John Mayer, because I just read your entire post. That said, I think you’re reading too much into his comment. It’s entirely possible that he could have been joking!
Sorry for yet another post, but….I can’t speak for everyone else, of course, but I certainly do not think it’s okay for Angie and Brad to be bashed. In fact, I think it’s horrible that they’re bashed so much. However, I also don’t think JA deserves to be bashed and to have her name brought up in a negative light so much. I think that’s pretty much what the other commentors have been trying to say as well.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a JA fan. However, I think she gets much more of a bad rap than she deserves.
Phobe, excellent post! Another possible reason I’ve thought of is, with Angie’s pregnancies, we’ve all had nine (very long!) months (well, more or less. Obviously Angie didn’t confirm either of her pregnancies until she was a few months in!) to wait for and get used to the news, so to speak, of the next Jolie-Pitt.
With the adoptions, however, it always seems like they happen so suddenly. Notice that I said SEEMS. This is because, first of all, it has been confirmed by someone (I think it was Angie herself, but I’m not sure), that Pax’s adoption actually took close to a year to complete (and someone else- I think either a rep from the adoption agency Angie used or Brad’s rep Cindy- said that the process actually started shortly after Shiloh’s birth).
Also, Angie stated a few months back that the adoption process can’t even be begun until any new children are at least six months old (although it may have been different with Pax, as Shi was 10 months old when he was adopted, so if they had begun the process when she was six months, it would have only taken four months).
In addition to all that, we only hear about Jolie-Pitt adoptions either when the adoption is immeniet (like in Pax’s case), or when the adoption has already been completed (like in Zahara’s case. There were rumors going around before Angie adopted her, but, as I remember, nothing was actually confirmed until the adoption was completed). Therefore, it seems like it’s happening suddenly, when in fact the process has mostly likely been going on for months.
Of course, the h8ters convenitely forget the facts and act like Angie simply goes to a country and brings home a kid.
Blessbrangelina:
“Am not kidding you and neither was I blaming JA. You imply sensitivity on behalf of B&A fans, have you looked at yourself closely?”
yep…and i am sensitive when it comes to ridiculous fancamps saying that bad things happen to Angie or Brad because of Aniston or her friends. or that people dont like Brangelina because of Aniston. thats too much and its been 5 years for crying out loud…
Aniston and Brangelina have common friends btw.
and i dislike it when people can´t speak about one either Brad, Angie or Aniston without mentionning the other in a hateful comment.
about Tina Fey….she is a professional, she does her job well and she is not picking on Angie. didn´t SNL do a spoof about Aniston too? they make fun of everyone and interpreting a certain friendship behing that is just too much really.
and no its not ok that Brad and Angie get attacked all the time, but thats no reason for you to do the same with Aniston. because SHE isn´t doing anything and that behaviour is JJ level.
about JM…..you have to know that he has this special humor, he PLAYS with the press….he has said things about Aniston too that sounded weird but were meant funny. its just his humor – when asked about the twins (and why should they ask? that was just the media trying to get a good story – why should he care about someone giving birth to twins?) he answered in a way the tabloids and obsessed fans would buy instantly. even if he would have said that him and Jen congratulate Brangelina the media would have found something negative in it…..he has shown this behaviour various times and you interpret too much in it. personaly i don´t like him very much-but this is his way in coping with the media. “ON camery he said this”…yep – that implies that he was playing with the media – even JM wouldn´t be that stupid saying such things on camera, these people KNOW showbusiness don´t forget that!
anyway…as i said no offense please but fans like you (mentionning Jen – or in other cases Angie and Brad in negative comments) keep this whole (inexistend) drama alive. Brad and Angie never get bashed on here – so why say negative things about a certain ex-wife?
oh and btw……to the above post in mod.:
who of us seriously is still friends with the friends of an Ex or Ex-husband/wife? when they meet (and they did various times) they are talking amically…..what should CC do? fly a thousand miles after Brangelina to meet her friend Brad? LOL
really too much interpretation in things…..most fans tend to see things that aren´t there and what they want to see.
joliepittfanatic:
i think it depends on the country from where she is adopting form how long the adoption process goes. i didn´t know that about Pax´s adoption and what Angie said about having to wait till the youngest child is 6 months old….thanks for the information:)
in case of MAdonna, the adoption process was quite public, people knew that she had to wait and go through a close test by the adoption agency…in Angies case she adopts very privatly, i guess thats why people think she “collects” kids….its the whole comparision problem in hollywood.
about JM you were right…i can´t stand the guy but i know about him that he has this sort of humor….like you said it was a joke.
the problem is in all our heads…i realised it when you said that you´re not a fan of Aniston. it has become common in this drama triangle that people who say good things about one side are attacked as fans of the particular person. why? in my case its true:D cause i am a fan f both Angie and Aniston, but then again i see other people beeing attacked as “fans”just because they say good things about one of the three…..people have forgotten that things can´t be seen only in black and white. i adore Angie, but i don´t see everything she does as positive. when i say that on other sites i am mostly attacked as a hater! how obsessed can people get!
thanks joliepittfanatic for the good talks!!!:)i really enjoy our conversations….
anyway…i want to respect Sherry´s site and i never mentionned JA or whoever if they are not mentionned by someone else first. like Sherry said its not a site about her.
Oh please!! Am laughing so hard right now! Am immature because I point out something that you refuse/pretend to acknowledge? Didn’t you just say there were no problems between them and she was happy and had moved on?
I read somewhere that her fans NEVER deal in facts and when presented with them they shift the focus…guess that conclusion was spot on!
My point was that those friends made a conscious choice because of her. To your question,when you are friends before meeting that now “Ex”; and when they do meet they are nice, when they give interviews they bitch about B&A. Sheryl Crow, D Arquette.
And I answered that question re: CC. Yes they are not in US that much. BUT as I said above the point was made to answer the raised issue of “Oh come on! They are too mature and she is too happy/has moved on” to be partisan argument. That’s bull as evidenced by her recent interviews.
And enough now!
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Responses in mod for 2 days. I guess i was wrong!
Comments were in moderation for everyone longer than normal because my daughter was home sick from school today, I apologize.
BlessBrangelina- I cannot speak for Phoebe, obviously, but for my part, I certainly don’t find you immature. I don’t neccesarily think that JA needed to be brought up, but I also don’t think that makes you immature.
As for “something you refuse/pretend” to acknowledge. Again, I have a feeling that comment was aimed at Phoebe more than at me, but I personly am not refusing to acknowledge anything, and I don’t think that’s the case with Phoebe, either.
Where have we ever said that JA’s friends definently don’t take sides, or that JA has definitely gotten over it. What I’m saying is that I don’t think it’s right to just assume that all of JA’s friends dislike and want to bash Angie and Brad. In fact, we really have no proof either way.
While some of the SNL ladies have gone on record saying they really like JA, I have never heard any of them say that they also dislike Angie. As far as JA and her recent interviews…I recommened that you read my earlier comment about that (it was probably in moderation until recently as well, so you may not have seen it before).
Anyway, the point I was trying to make (and I think Phoebe was, too), was that we don’t actually know any of these people personally. Therefore, we have no way of knowing for sure how the SNL ladies feel about Angie or how JA feels about her.
While that means Phoebe and I can’t know that they don’t dislike Angie, that also means you can’t know that they do. In Jen’s case, we have Brad’s recent W interview, where he said that the Angie vs. Jen thing is media created. Considering the guy probably knows JA better than even some of her friends do, I choose to believe him!
Oh, and I also forget to mention earlier that I can’t believe some people (mostly the same people who claim that Angie collects children) claim that Angie adopts for publicity. I mean, really, if someone were adopting just for publicity, would they adopt a child as sick as Zahara was when Angie first adopted her?
thank you joliepittfanatic, maybe BlessBrangelina understands you better than me….:)
and BlessBrangelina – you should repeat your second paragraph and tell it yourself ok? you are the one who starts talking about a certain person the moment something negative is said about Angie. this certain person has moved on more than you have it seems:)
Phoebe, no problem!
*JoliePittFanatic
I was referring to Phoebe mainly!
And Phoebe has just repeated again that JA has gotten over it! When all her actions say she hasn’t! She has also stated their friends haven’t chosen sides. When they have ie S. Crow.
JA’s comments “were not that bad”? Really!? A picture of her shooting Angie is funny to you too? Like Phoebe? And calling Angie’s reputation into question is okay? Yes I understand that her words could have been taken out of context or edited to be something it was not. So after her experience with Vogue, like Angie, she could have adapted a “why would I comment on that” attitude. But she didn’t! Why?
But I have no issues with you, JoilePittFanatic. However I do have an issue with Phoebe re:her passive aggressiveness towards Angie and the ant’s that suddenly come alive in her pants whenever JA is mentioned.
*Secondly Phoebe You should go back into archives and read the negativity you have thrown Angie’s way in the guise of your “opinion”.
Again my point with mentioning JA was to make one about Tina. If I had wanted to say or imply negative things about her, like you do with Angie all the time, I would have.
When did they do a spoof about JA…you mean her 30 Rock appearance? Different program and outlook.
Mayer plays games with the press, it’s he’s second career. In this situation “congratulations or No comment” would have been better! And if it was a joke, JA’s people would not have seen fit chastise him for it.
I have not shifted focus. Am still on topic re Tina, even as I answer your attempts to make it something it’s not. Just look back at the number of times you asked questions unrelated to Tina!
Am sorry about your daughter, Sherry! Hope she is better.
BlessBrangelina, I really think you’re reading way too much into things. First of all, JA’s comments in GQ (and before that, Vogue), automatically mean she hasn’t gotten over the divorce?
And Sheryl Crow being friends with JA automatically means she also dislikes Angie? In JA’s case, while I’m certainly not saying she’s blameless or anything, I don’t think she deserves all the venom being spewed at her (just as we PittWatchers think Angie doesn’t deserve all the venom that’s been spewed at her all the time).
Yes, she could have adopted a “no comment” or “why should I talk about that?” attitude, but I have a feeling her quotes would still get taken out of context, just as Angie’s often are. Speaking of which, I see nothing wrong with her comment about the comic. It IS funny in the sense that, even after four years, the tabs are STILL make a huge deal out of something that (according to Brad in his W interview) really isn’t/wasn’t a huge deal! I think that’s what JA was trying to say as well. In fact, I’ll go even further and say that I have a hunch that if Brad and Angie have seen that comic, they’ve probably laughed at it, too.
JA could be a type of person who often feels put on the spot when asked about Angie and Brad. When someone feels like that, they often get flustured and say things they don’t mean to. For all we know, she’s kicking herself right now for what she said in the GQ interview.
As for Sheryl Crow: Unless she has actually come out and said she dislikes Angie, there is absolutly no proof to show that, just because she’s a friend of JA, she also dislikes Angie. I really don’t see how simply being friends with someone is taking sides.
In terms of John Mayer’s comment, maybe JA’s people chastized him because they thought that, while he was indeed joking, it wasn’t the best joke to make. Or maybe they didn’t chastize him. Personally, until I read about that in PEOPLE, I’m going to take it as yet another tabloid rumor (the chastizing, I mean).
Also, once again, Brad said in his W Interview that the Angie vs. Jen thing is media-created (please read that sentence twice. I really don’t want to explain it yet again!). He also called her a “sweetheart” and said that, basically, he feels like she gets “dragged” into it, which to me is basically say she feels put on the spot and says something she ends up regretting later. He also said they talk occasionally.
Granted, the GQ interview had not yet come out at the time Brad did his W interview. Brad was with JA for seven years and married to her for four (not counting the year they divorced) of those years. Therefore, I think it’s safe to say that he knows her a hundred times better than any of us ever will (heck, he probably knows her better than some of her friends do!).
To sum things up: By no means do I think that JA is blameless or a perfect angel. However, she IS human, just like the rest of us. Therefore, she’s going to make mistakes, and she’s going to end up sticking her foot in her mouth at times.
Also, just like the rest of us, JA has feelings. Put yourself in her shoes and imagine how YOU would feel if people were saying all the stuff to you that you (and others. I’m certainly not saying you’re the only one) have been saying about her.
Can you honestly tell me that you’re feelings wouldn’t be hurt? I don’t know about you, but I don’t like seeing ANYBODY’s feelings hurt!
All of that said, I’m not going to argue this with you any further. I think at this point that we need to simply agree to disagree.
UNDER MOD- My response to BlessBrangelina.
Oh, and I forgot to say that I don’t blame Phoebe a bit for getting defensive when JA is brought up. I don’t like it when she’s brought up either, especially in posts where she’s really not revelant (which is most of the posts here, actually).
I also know that Sherry has said that, although this is a Brad and Angie fansite, that doesn’t mean it’s also a Jen-bashing site. She’s also said that she herself is a fan of all three of them.
Therefore, I try to be senestive to that and not bring up JA unless she’s either relevant to the post or someone else does first.
It seems you and I have a different sense of humour. So yes, we should agree to disagree on this.
She has a right to be hurt, and that gives her the right to re-ignite the nonsense at each chance she gets? I don’t agree with this. She’s 40 and has been in the business long enough to learn from her mistakes, like everyone else.
Angie’s words in Vogue were taken out of context, you know what? The next time she was asked she said am not commenting.
Your answers brings to mind, part of my first responses when this bizarre turn of events started. This need by everyone to defend this woman regardless of her actions is mind boggling to me.
Crow is on record like Goodwin as Team JA. She was interviewed in NYT bitching about Brad and he’s recent actions/choices in life. Where in that tells you that she is fan of Brad let alone Angie?
Neither of you have still given me an example of how my response re:Tina is an insult/attack on JA! Why has Fey and friends never done a spoof of JA? Is Angie the only one out of the 3 whose life is full of comic moments. Because they have spoofed her a LOT!
Other comics like Leno and Stewart, have made fun of BOTH!
Like I said the responses from you guys are bizarre to me,as well as one sided and proofs my conclusion re: knee jerk need to protect her. But as you stated we have to agree to disagree!
*Sorry Sherry, I know I said no more above but am absolutely done now!
BlessBrangelina, I know I also said no more (and therefore I also apologize to Sherry), but I decided to post on this thread once more to attempt to answer some of your questions.
First of all, about SNL: Phoebe pointed out that she thinks SNL HAS spoofed JA before. Just because you haven’t seem them do it doesn’t mean they haven’t!
Regarding Sheryl Crow…Okay, fair enough. I did not realize that she’s made remarks showing obvious dislike to Brad.
Now about the point I was trying to make about the comments: Angie’s comments in Vogue being taken out of context is just ONE example of the many times that has happened. Her comments were also taken out of context when she gave the interview to Elle Uk (the one that contained the infamous “blob” comment), and when she gave an interview after adopting Pax (although, in the latter case, I have to cut the press some slack. This is because she gave the interview to the Vietnamese press in English. Then they translated it into Vietnamese….and then the American press translated it BACK into English. Therefore, it’s extremely likely that something literally got lost in translation).
And those are just a few of the times her comments have been taken out of context. My point is, how do you know that press wouldn’t STILL twist JA’s words even if she said “no comment” or “I don’t talk about that”. In fact, then they’d probably accuse her of hiding something, or of her not wanting to admit that she still loves Brad.
And finally, about defending JA. Well, Phoebe has said that she is a fan of JA as well as Brad and Angie, so it makes sense to me that she would defend JA just as she does Brad and Angie.
As for me, I defend JA because, as I said before, I can’t stand seeing anyone having their feelings hurt. Also, as I said earlier, that doesn’t mean that I think JA is blameless or a total angel or anything. I just think that she doesn’t deserve all the venom being spewed at her. I mean, people are making a WAY bigger deal out of this than it needs to be, in my opinion!
Okay, I’m really done commenting on this!
“As for me, I defend JA because, as I said before, I can’t stand seeing anyone having their feelings hurt. Also, as I said earlier, that doesn’t mean that I think JA is blameless or a total angel or anything. I just think that she doesn’t deserve all the venom being spewed at her. I mean, people are making a WAY bigger deal out of this than it needs to be, in my opinion!”
Absolutely agree here- I have never understood why people hold this mentality that you can’t be a fan of all three of them. You either choose sides or you aren’t really a fan. It’s childish and immature. I personally have nothing aganst JA. I think the fans of all three have created much more out of this situation than is there. None of us knows everything that happened behind closed doors and we are usually commenting on rumor or brief quotes. I say let it go already- it’s been much too long to keep rehashing every detail. I hope JA finds happiness as well as hoping Brad and Angelina continue to be blessed. I can never understand not wanting all 3 to be happy in life!!