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The Chester A. Arthur Bit: Ray as Accidental President
from Vice President Kump · #18
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5 minA long improvised sketch imagining Ray Kump as accidental president Chester A. Arthur (a stand-in for a Trump/Pence scenario), including a fake call about assassination, James Baker orchestrating a patsy, and Vice President Cump's bizarre sex doll tangent.
- 47:38Tim decides to pay attention to Chester A. Arthur instead of the election.
- 47:50Chester A. Arthur was close to being an anarchist and may have been assassinated by one.
- 48:32Arthur found himself president due to his predecessor's assassination.
- 49:00Ray-as-Arthur bit: just became president after someone got killed, then immediately wants to leave.
- 49:34Sketch premise: NSA director calls at 2 AM to tell the sick president he's now acting president.
- 50:48Arthur complains he only became president by accident and wants the people reassured.
- 51:13Arthur asks who picked him to be vice president in the first place.
- 51:33James Baker character instructs Arthur to go shoot Kennedy and stand at the book depository.
- 51:57Shannon realizes the vice president finds out they're president the same way most people do—television.
- 52:25Tim corrects Shannon: they were looking up how an elected person finds out, not how a succession happens.
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