Funny or Die Gets Political With SNL President's Reunion

Funny or Die, the comedy video website founded by funny guy Will Ferrell and SNL writer Adam McKay, which was responsible for the hilarious viral video featuring Ferrell's daughter as "The Landlord," has released another side-splitting video, this time with a political message.

In the Ron Howard-directed video, called Presidential Reunion, (watch below) Barack Obama gets a surprise night-time visit from ex-Presidents Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Clinton, Ford, Reagan and Carter all of whom make a bi-partisan case for Obama to push the Consumer Financial Protection Agency bill through Congress.

The bill was dreamed up by Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren, who chairs the congressional oversight committee on the federal bailout program. Warren says that the dismantling of laws and regulations put in place after the Great Depression has contributed significantly to the market meltdown 18 months ago. The bill was approved by the House, but has been held up in the Senate, where Republicans like Alabama Senator Richard Shelby says to create such an agency would be "folly."

In any case, the Funny or Die video puts a hilarious spin on the otherwise serious issue. In the video, Obama, played by Fred Armisen, emerges from a smoke-filled bathroom (where he's been presumably sneaking cancer sticks) to complain to wife Michelle that he's tired of getting his "butt kicked from both sides" on the issue of creating the agency.

"These banks and the credit card companies are ripping off the people with almost no regulations," he whines. "I'm trying to make a consumer agency to protect families and the lobbyists and Senator Shelby acts like I'm trying to change the national anthem to 'I Got 99 Problems and the Bitch Ain't One of Them.'"

Obama and Michelle nestle in for a night of rest when in come Dubya and Clinton to convince him to push the bill through.

"When I put the Iraq war on my credit card, I never dreamed I would be paying 28 percent in interest rates. It's astronomical," says Bush Jr. (Ferrell) referring to soaring interest rates.

Of course, it's an earnest Jimmy Carter (Dan Aykroyd) who spells it out for Obama.

"Mr. President, you have to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. People are tired of being ripped off by credit card companies and banks," he says.

Then in enters Jim Carrey as The Gipper "to help Mr.-reach-across-the-aisle here grow a pair."

"Grab those eight balls and push the consumer protection agency through," says Reagan.

The must-see video, which was sponsored by The Main Street Brigade, an organization devoted to the creation of the consumer protection agency, ends with a call for voters to contact their senators about the bill. Way to make politics fun, guys!

Photo by Guillermo Quezada via Wikimedia Commons, video courtesy of Funny or Die.