SNL: Extended O’Reilly Interview With Obama Devolves Into Game Show

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Saturday Night Live released the “extended footage” from Bill O’Reilly’s interview with President Obama, a clip rife with factual inaccuracies, interruptions, and a lightning round of pop culture trivia.

SNL’s O’Reilly impersonator introduced the segment by claiming that the Super Bowl’s 200 million viewers were really tuning in to see his interview — which aired before the big game — making his chat with the President the most watched show in human history.

Moving on to the interview, a flppant O’Reilly hardly let Obama get a word in edgewise. O’Reilly insisted that Muammar Gaddafi was the president of Afghanistan and, when Obama corrected him, pressed on, insisting that the President must be mistaken. Later, O’Reilly cut off Obama with a drawn out, dismissive groan.

Yet O’Reilly did let Obama answer a few questions uninterrupted — in the all important “Culture Quiz,” a multiple choice trivia round about classic television shows.

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