Well, technically it was the comedian Darrell Hammond, he of “Saturday Night Live” fame, a man whose imitation of the former president is so dead-on it is difficult to separate the two in your mind. Mr. Hammond, who had dropped in unannounced with a Yankees cap on his head, took the stage and promptly started a pretty good imitation of the current president and his use of the word terror.
“I like the way he says it: `Tear-ah!’ ” Mr. Hammond said, going into his Bush imitation: ” `I don’t need the O or the R to protect America!’ “
The Politics of Funny, or Vice Versa
The New York Times
By JESSE McKINLEY
September 24, 2004
