You know things are bad when Saudi television mocks the president of the United States in a SNL-style spoof. A state-run TV station featured a comedy sketch depicting Joe Biden attempting to address the Ukraine crisis, but he’s seen wandering away from the podium and falling asleep mid-sentence, while also being constantly prodded by his VP over what to say given he struggles to remember basic names and information.
The sketch went viral after it hit social media on Monday, and comes after last month Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly rejected attempts by the White House to set up a phone call between he and Joe Biden, at a moment the US is urging the Saudis to ramp up oil output. Watch the brief segment below:
For the first time i see the Saudi TV mocking the US administration. pic.twitter.com/8vPtU0txJ8
— Asaad Sam Hanna (@AsaadHannaa) April 12, 2022
The sketch from the show Studio 22 begins with “Biden” barely aware of his surroundings as “Harris” tries to pull him back on stage in order to stutter through some short sentences, as The Jerusalem Post described further:
The overarching theme of the clip is that President Biden is old. The character is obviously unaware of his surroundings and prone to falling asleep mid-sentence. Consequently, the audience sees Harris, played by a male actor in drag, telling the President what to say and do. At the end of the clip, Biden finally falls asleep and Harris literally puppets his unconscious body, screaming, “clap for the president!”
The clip was an obvious and perhaps over-the-top attempt at highlighting the 79-year old president’s cognitive decline in old age, also after a series of recent remarks on Ukraine that the White House had to scramble to walk back. The Saudi spoof included the following dialogue:
BIDEN: Yeah, we gotta talk about the crisis in Africa.”
HARRIS: [taps and whispers again]
BIDEN: Yeah Russia. And I wanna talk about President of Russia–[pauses].
HARRIS: [whispers]
BIDEN: Putin. Putin. Putin! Listen to me, I have [a] very important message to you. The message is [falls asleep and snores].
But just days ago a very real clip of Biden giving a press conference on the White House lawn while standing beside Harris wasn’t too far off from the extremes that the Saudi skit depicted…
BIDEN: "I was in the the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him, that's when I traveled 17,000 miles when I was Vice President. I don't know that for a fact." pic.twitter.com/hoiGCUGckR
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 8, 2022
He began by saying “America as a nation can be defined as a single word…”
But then Biden inexplicably drifted off and changed thought entirely, breaking into his own sentence with “…excuse me, I was in the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him, traveled 17,000 miles when I was Vice President. I don’t know that for a fact.”
And it’s of course unclear what the bizarre Himalaya story was meant to convey. Given the timing and fact that the Saudi skit was produced days after that last Friday White House speech, the Saudis were clearly taking aim at the incident, using it to highlight current lack of faith in Biden as a global leader during the Ukraine crisis.
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They could do a script better than that. I was a little disappointed.
Biden’s actually worse off than they are showing.
Generally you’re really good at comedy OR lopping heads off. Seldom both.
It’s just one of those things.
Humor is not a Muslim/Saudi strong suit.
They should’ve worked the Pope into the script.
That’s the kind of talk that gets your head chopped off in Saudi Arabia.
I actually thought it was funny! Especially the ‘clap for your prez’ part at the end.
I think they needed to add Bidens famous lines like ” I ksajdkjfiei and jalksdjiie, not joking kjaoiudiuorei c’mon man.
Biden’s on the way out, everyone knows it except him.
Saudi and humor are two words normally not found anywhere. Nevertheless, that was friggin hilarious.
I expect sanctions against the House Of Saud to be issued shortly.
At least they don’t grow avocados. That is serious.
Biden/Harris laughingstock of the world. People who voted for them are idiots, useful idiots……….
They don’t know they are idiots. Those same people would never see this Zerohedge article.
I guess the Saudis don’t want to be part of the petro-dollar anymore. Did you know that a missle from Yemen struck a Saudi refinery a few days ago? Wonder if the US switched sides?
All the anti-missile batteries were in mandatory gender revocation training.
The dude in drag playing Harris is still better looking than any of the women on “The View.”
And he looks a lot like the actual dude playing Harris here!
Think it goes even deeper, multi-level chess as people on here like to refer to.
Calls it First Lady, maybe a reference to Big Mike. Not to mention the black face.
Don’t complain, might get chopped up into many little pieces and never seen again.
“I was in the the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him, that’s when I traveled 17,000 miles when I was Vice President. I don’t know that for a fact.”
Honk Honk.
These are not serious people. The USA is not a serious country.
EVERYONE should be mocking POTATUS. What is surprising is when they don’t.
Amazing. When Biden actually speaks, he sounds like an actor mocking him!
Potatus. That is awesome. Let’s kick it up a notch and give him a title — Emperor Potatus.
Hell yes
Since FJB didn’t finish his thought, how about a QOTD on how you would describe America in one word?
Ha! I think we would all use the same word.
Is now Kamela really doing the Angela Merkel hand gesture/position, or did the Saudi’s mix that together?
(I’ve never watched a Kamela performance so far.)
Although a satirical look at what masquerades as the Chief executive and VP it’s to close to reality !
Oh: and everybody knows it except for the Kool Aid Drinking DC idiots . You can be sure the deep state inside parasites are taking full advantage of the old man with dementia .
Of course we call it elder abuse , a felony in our judicial system
Saudis are just sucking up to Biden, who probably thinks it’s a compliment…
Think about the depth of contempt to make such a skit in an honor culture like that. Making fun of someone in that kind of culture is serious business.