Famous Comedians Try to Rescue CFPA in Star-Filled Sketch
The debate over new financial rules just took a turn for the? hilarious.
A star-studded cast of past and present Saturday Night Live comedians has place together a skewering sketch pushing President Barack Obama to make an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency, in perhaps one of the more bizarre turns in the continuing debate over how best to reword financial protection rules.
The video was directed by Ron Howard and features Will Ferrell as George W. Bush, Fred Armisen at Barack Obama, Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton, Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford, Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy transporter, Dana Carvey as George H.W. Bush, and Jim Carrey as Ronald Reagan. Maya Rudolph plays Michelle Obama.
Warning, the skit isn?t just so rated PG.
The setting for the skit is the White House?s master bedroom, and Mr. Obama and his wife are visited by presidents — active and dead — pushing him to make a new CFPA. Banks have lobbied aggressively to kill the creation of an independent CFPA, but many unions and consumer groups have insisted that a freestanding agency is necessary to protect consumers.