Did Vintage Bill O’Reilly Freakout Clip Inspire SNL’s “Wake Up and Smile”?
There’s nothing particularly topical about this amazing clip of an Inside Edition-era hair-having Bill O’Reilly totally losing his sh*t on camera when the teleprompter malfunctions, but once my laughter subsided, I couldn’t help but think of the classic Will Ferrell/David Alan Grier SNL sketch “Wake Up and Smile”, in which we discover how ugly things could have really gotten when a madman like O’Reilly has no teleprompter. Watch Bill below, then compare with the SNL clip after the jump!