{"id":384063,"date":"2010-03-03T10:12:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T15:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.32533"},"modified":"2010-03-03T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:31:36","slug":"snl-stars-who-play-presidents-in-funny-or-die-skit-to-push-congress-on-financial-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/384063","title":{"rendered":"SNL stars who play presidents in  &#8220;Funny or Die&#8221; skit to push Congress on financial reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"5\/\/\" height=\"32\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" id=\"ordie_player_f5a57185bd\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.ordienetworks.com\/flash\/fodplayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"key=f5a57185bd\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed width=\"512\" height=\"328\" flashvars=\"key=f5a57185bd\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" quality=\"high\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ordienetworks.com\/flash\/fodplayer.swf\" name=\"ordie_player_f5a57185bd\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;font-size:x-small;margin-top:0;width:512px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/f5a57185bd\/funny-or-die-s-presidential-reunion\" title=\"from Will Ferrell, Chevy Chase, Ron Howard, Jim Carrey, Fred Armisen, Darrell Hammond, Jake, Dan Aykroyd, Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, FOD Team, and Antonio Scarlata\">Funny or Die&#8217;s Presidential Reunion<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/will_ferrell\">Will Ferrell<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;While it looks like President Obama will not get a free standing consumer financial products safety commission, the Senate at least is poised to fold it into the Federal Reserve. Americans for Financial Reform&#8211;led by former Chicagoan Heather Booth&#8211;worked with the comedy teams over at <em>Funny or Die<\/em> to enlist a cadre of Saturday Night Live current and former actors&#8211;who portray living and dead presidents&#8211;in a funny skit about the need for Congress to pass financial reform legislation. The cast, in a historic reunion, includes Will Ferrell, Chevy Chase, Ron Howard, Jim Carrey, Fred Armisen, Darrell Hammond, Dan Aykroyd, Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey and Antonio Scarlata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny or Die&#8217;s Presidential Reunion from Will Ferrell WASHINGTON&#8211;While it looks like President Obama will not get a free standing consumer financial products safety commission, the Senate at least is poised to fold it into the Federal Reserve. Americans for Financial Reform&#8211;led by former Chicagoan Heather Booth&#8211;worked with the comedy teams over at Funny or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}