Saddam Hussein in U.S. popular culture
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Template:Mergewith Saddam Hussein appears in many U.S. television shows and other media. Sometimes he is parodied.
In the beginning one episode of Animaniacs, he is shown speaking to an audience in Iraq. He states, "People of Iraq.." before he falls off of the podium and goes to hell.
On Saturday Night Live, he was portrayed on several occasions by Will Ferrell. The comedy in these sketches was that Ferrell played Saddam not as a powerful dictator, but as a chummy, happy-go-lucky guy who happened to commit atrocities.
The television series South Park (and, especially, the film South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut) at times feature Saddam as a character. In the film, Saddam is killed by wild boars. As a result, he goes to Hell, starting a gay love affair with Satan. The affair ends when Satan refuses to defend Saddam from Eric Cartman, instead throwing him into a chasm declaring, "I have had enough of you!" (referencing Star Trek III: The Search for Spock). Later in the series, Saddam reappears in Hell, attempting to steal Satan away from his new gay lover, Chris, eventually violently killing Chris multiple times, only for Chris to reappear in Hell after his deaths. This depiction of Saddam is intended as comedy, and not as any attempt at seriously rendering him as a fictional character.