Saturday Night Live parodies of Bill Clinton Saturday Night Live parodies of Bill Clinton The 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton has been parodied on "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL") since 1992. He has been portrayed on the show over a hundred times, most often by Darrell Hammond. "Saturday Night Live" has parodied U.S. presidents and other politicians since the show started in 1975. The numerous sketches on Clinton are often inspired by aspects of his presidency, the Lewinsky scandal, and his relationship with his wife, herself a frequent subject in "SNL's" political sketches. Phil Hartman was the first cast member to portray Bill Clinton and
Presidency of Bill Clinton presidency, historians and political scientists have tended to rank Clinton as an average to above average president. President George H. W. Bush's popularity in the aftermath of the successful Gulf War convinced many prominent Democrats to sit out the 1992 presidential election. With party leaders like Mario Cuomo and Dick Gephardt out of the running, the 1992 Democratic primary field consisted of relatively unknown candidates. Among those who sought the Democratic nomination were former Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, former Governor Jerry Brown of California, and Bill Clinton, who had served as the Governor of Arkansas since 1983. Clinton emerged