'Obama, Bush, Clinton:' A comic reunion

by Mark Silva

President Barack Obama emerges from a smoke-filled bathroom.

Sneaking cigarettes again, the first lady asks?

"Nope.''

Only, this isn't the president, but rather a Saturday Night Live player -- followed by many SNL players of SNL's past marching through the door in their roles as former presidents. "Boooooooooooooo,'' belts the Bush player playing "the ghost of Dick Cheney.''

How did they get in the first bedroom?

The password hasn't changed since Bush was president, the G.W. Bush-player says: "1, 2, 3 , 4.'' ("Dubbers,'' the 41-player calls his son.)

Jimmy Carter enters to Bush's, 'Whaddya say we open up a bag of Malaise potato chips?''

Jim Carrey as Ronald Reagan arrives in Obama's bedroom offering to "Mr. Reach Across the Aisles here grow a pair.'' (While Clinton-man wags a cigar at the first lady.)

The FunnyorDie.com production, directed by Hollywood's Ron Howard, kicked off a weeklong campaign to lobby Congress for action on a Consumer Finance Protection Agency by a coalition of consumer groups, Americans for Financial Reform , which includes a vast cast of labor unions, consumer, civil rights and liberal activist groups, ranging from ACORN to the AFL-CIO.

Taped Sunday, the video reunited a cast of actors who have portrayed presidents on SNL: Fred Armisen as Obama, Will Ferrell as George W. Bush, Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton, Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford, Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter and Dana Carvey as George H. W. Bush. Jim Carrey completed the cast with his portrayal of Ronald Regan, and "SNL" alum Maya Rudolph played Michelle Obama.

As for that message about congressional approval of a Consumer Finance Protection Agency, we're afraid it might be lost in the play, which ends back in bed.

"Nicorettes are in the sock drawer,'' Rudolph tells Armisen.