Continuing on from yesterday’s theme that comedy from the 1980s resonates today much more than feels comfortable.
Here’s Phil Hartman’s Reagan on Saturday Night Live, in a sketch which aired the night before Regan resigned, on 28th February 1987.
And here he is again, playing Robert MacFarlane, in a sketch from 16th May 1987.
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