SNL Skit Mocking Obama’s Accomplishments Is Season’s First Viral Hit [Video]

obama snl accomplishments In the age of online video sharing, a clever TV sketch can quickly amass millions of views. That’s been the case for some of Saturday Night Live’s political commentary, perhaps most notably last year’s Tina Fey/Sarah Palin sketches.

This year’s first smash hit appears to be this past Saturday’s opening sketch, where SNL’s Obama (played by Fred Armisen) addresses the nation and declares “it’s very clear what I’ve done so far and that is nothing. Nada. Almost one year and nothing to show for it.”

Contributing to the video’s success is the political controversy it’s caused, with Obama’s supporters disputing its premise, and his detractors sharing it with like-minded friends in droves. All of that leads to lots of video views – primarily for Hulu and NBC.com – as the network appears to be hard at work keeping it off of other sites like YouTube.

On Hulu, the skit is currently the site’s most popular today (three days after airing), while on NBC.com, they’re counting some 45,000 views so far. Considering Hulu gets considerably more traffic than NBC.com (plus embeds), it’s safe to assume the Obama sketch has already been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

We’ve requested some more specific stats and will update when we hear more. In the meantime, here’s the sketch if you haven’t seen it yet:

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