As It Turns Out, Gerald Ford Was Not Eaten By Wolves

In honor of Gerald Ford, who "died peacefully" yesterday in Rancho Mirage, we revisit this Dana Carvey SNL sketch—probably one of our favorites of all time—in which Tom Brokaw is required to tape news promos covering just about every other possible conceivable cause of death for the former President. It even includes one scenario that makes room for the possibility of Brokaw simultaneously coming out of the closet. "What?" the producer responds to his protests. "One day. You wake up. You like men. Gerald Ford dies, and we're screwed!" We know the feeling. We really do.

'True gentleman,' ex-President Ford dies at 93 [CNN]
Gerald Ford Dana Carvey SNL Tom Brokaw [Google Video]

8:17 AM on Wed Dec 27 2006
By Seth
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metroville at 09:56 AM on 12/27/06
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"The producer"? Let's give Robert Smigel--a.k.a. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog--his proper credit.
Chicago Bureau at 11:42 AM on 12/27/06
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Wow. Watching this clip made me forget for a moment how much Dana Carvey sucks. I mean, has anyone heard from the man recently. Could somebody out there go and check in?
Bon Jour, Pee Wee at 12:40 PM on 12/27/06
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Since these things happen in 'threes', who's next. James Brown was number one.
giddygoon at 12:48 PM on 12/27/06
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I'm hoping number 3 will be Dakota Fanning--mauled by a circus lion in a 7/11
mothrafairy at 02:36 PM on 12/27/06
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James Brown was the personification of the Human Need for Rehab.

Gerald was (apparently) the personification of All Men Who Drive Their Wives to Establish World-Famous Rehab Centers.

Li'l Dakota is the personification of Uncannily Precocious Freak-Children Who Are Most Certainly Destined for Rehab.

The signs of similitude are clear. I'm with giddygoon--Dakota will keel.
Robyn Tippins at 02:57 PM on 12/27/06
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Heh heh, that's actually how I broke the news to my husband, in my best Brokaw impersonation. Glad to know the rest of you wasted your youth watching SNL. You think he had a Wii I could buy?
The Unicorn at 03:39 PM on 12/27/06
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I'm glad that I'm not the only one who immediately thought of this sketch when I learned that Ford had died.
T-dawg at 05:53 PM on 12/27/06
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i thought of the Chevy Chase skit myself, hanging the christmas tree and falling down all over the place, ala Ford's exit from AirForce1.
TheJerseyDevil at 07:58 AM on 01/02/07
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Sweet Jesus, thanks for the clip--I've been doing my best Carvey-as-Brokaw "Gerald Ford's dead and I'm gay!" all week, and no one knows what I'm talking about.