{"id":1285113,"date":"2018-12-02T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=1285113"},"modified":"2018-12-03T07:34:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T05:34:25","slug":"snl-fondly-recollects-george-h-w-bushs-sense-of-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/de\/2018\/12\/snl-fondly-recollects-george-h-w-bushs-sense-of-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"'SNL' fondly recollects George H. W. Bush's sense of humor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout Bush\u2019s presidency, Dana Carvey portrayed him on \u201cSNL,\u201d satirizing the cadence of his speech and his hand gestures.<\/b>
\nIn the \u201c Weekend Update \u201d segment of \u201c Saturday Night Live,\u201d Colin Jost and Michael Che paid tribute to President George H. W. Bush, who died Friday at age 94.
\u201cOur thoughts and condolences go out to his family and friends,\u201d Che said.
Jost added, \u201cPresident Bush was famously a very warm and gracious man who understood the power in being able to laugh at yourself.\u201d
See more from the president’s life:
Throughout Bush\u2019s presidency, Dana Carvey portrayed him on \u201cSNL,\u201d satirizing the cadence of his speech and his hand gestures.
On Saturday night, the show played a compilation of Carvey\u2019s impressions, along with a rebuttal from Bush.
Check out the video above. Tribute begins at about 1:42.<\/p>\n