BP Spoof: ‘Don’t Worry: It’s a Small Spill on a Very Large Table’

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Saturday Night Live was finishing its season just as the BP oil well in the gulf started leaking, leaving it to Jon Stewart, BPGlobalPR, and now Upright Citizens Brigade to provide the requisite satire.

UCB’s web site was crashing Wednesday night as online fans flocked to see the group’s latest punch lines over BP’s response to the oil spill. The group’s two new videos were equally funny – in a very sad kind of way.

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Video number one, the BP execs spill coffee and can’t quite figure out how to plan a cleanup. At one point, the leader of the meeting grabs some paper towel – to draw the schematic of a clumsy top hat.

Video number two – Just imagine how rich all those fish in the Gulf are now, with all that unlimited oil at their disposal:

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