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Obama College Years
SKETCH-O-VISION
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Home-video footage stamped March 15, 1980 shows a young Barack Obama in a dorm room hung with a Hawaii flag, already speaking in his measured, uplifting cadence as he tells his classmates that tonight's party could be a model for how the world should work, all while peppering the speech with period slang about being stoked, righteous and gnarly. He warns his friend Dennis, who is shooting the tape, to be careful because he might run for office someday, deftly snags a joint as it is passed around, and lays out his vision of a welcoming, diverse guest list. Later, sitting at a table, he gives a step-by-step lesson in rolling a joint as if it were a civics class, casting the rolling paper as the Constitution and the weed as the American people who must stay close together. By the end he is thoroughly stoned, laughing at how high he is and losing track of what he was saying.
The funny people
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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
I might run for office someday.
Don't ever sleep on Barry O.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The season-two premiere, which aired on September 26, 2012, is titled after this sketch.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Barack Obama
All right, everybody focus up look this party tonight could be a model for the way that the world should work And I just want to say I'm totally stoked to the max about it. All right, you guys feeling good.
- 00:14
Yeah
- 00:15
Barack Obama
Dennis what are you shooting video?
- 00:17
Yeah,
- 00:18
Barack Obama
all right. Well be careful with that. I might run for office someday
- 00:23
Barack Obama
Now trust me, I think that this party can be be the most inspirational party this campus has ever seen.
- 00:29
Barack Obama
Is that coming to me? Let me just grab that. Oh. Get down there. It's a righteous bud. It's a righteous bud we got going on there.
- 00:41
Barack Obama
We need some bodacious jock babes coming in. We need some hot-ass punk rock babes. I don't care where they come from. The most important thing, it's imperative that we have a diversity in the pussy department.
- 00:56
Barack Obama
Intercept it. Don't sleep on Berrio. Don't ever sleep on Berrio. Whoo!
- 01:04
Barack Obama
That is some major doobage.
- 01:16
What's up?
- 01:18
Barack Obama
Apartheid is totally gnarly. It's a gnarly institution. Where is he? That is that. Come here. Get this. Get this.
- 01:25
Barack Obama
Okay, we got to have a system in place to get everybody weed, all right? So just watch. This is how you're gonna do it, all right? This is... I'm really frosty right now, by the way.
- 01:34
Barack Obama
This is your constitution, all right? It's just a piece of paper. We've got to keep its integrity because it's going to hold everything together. This right here, this is us. This is the American people. We're special. We're magic. Hello. Yay. We all live in here.
- 01:47
Barack Obama
All right, the most important thing is that we don't get too far apart, me and you. We've got to be close. That's the magic of America is love.
- 01:54
Barack Obama
Otherwise, we're going to get air bubbles in there. It's going to start canoeing and everything. We don't want that. All right? You get that?
- 01:59
Barack Obama
All right, look, I'm way ahead of you, but I'm already done. Boom, fireworks, 4th of July. That's for you. We want, like, 10 of these.
- 02:07
Barack Obama
Oh, my God. I'm so waste. I'm so . Oh, . What was I saying?
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