--- title: SNL: Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton Give Mother's Day Address description: The bitterness is directed not toward their moms, but toward each other canonical: https://time.com/95297/snl-mothers-day-address/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-11T14:26:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:34.214Z og:title: SNL: Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton Give Mother's Day Address og:description: The bitterness is directed not toward their moms, but toward each other og:url: https://time.com/95297/snl-mothers-day-address/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb0483a7126c5a09/69868ece3bc99901151a365c/screen-shot-2014-05-11-at-9-58-37-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-05-11 at 9.58.37 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: SNL: Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton Give Mother's Day Address twitter:description: The bitterness is directed not toward their moms, but toward each other twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb0483a7126c5a09/69868ece3bc99901151a365c/screen-shot-2014-05-11-at-9-58-37-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama Deliver a Special Passive-Aggressive Mother's Day Address On _SNL_ ## Video: Weekly Address: The First Lady Marks Mother's Day and Speaks Out on the Tragic Kidnapping in Nigeria [Watch (HLS stream): Weekly Address: The First Lady Marks Mother's Day and Speaks Out on the Tragic Kidnapping in Nigeria](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vsK9t8e2.m3u8) (5:24)  _Published 2014-05-10. Weekly Address- The First Lady Marks Mother's Day and Speaks Out on the Tragic Kidnapping in Nigeria_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 11, 2014 2:26 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 11, 2014 2:26 PM UTC To kick off Saturday night’s episode of _Saturday Night Live_, Michelle Obama (played by Sasheer Zamata) and Hillary Clinton (played by Vanessa Bayer) came together to deliver a Mother’s Day message. “You know, both of us have been called so many things,” Clinton says. “It’s nice to have one day where the first thing that we’re called is mom.” The women seem to be in good spirits, but soon their address devolves into a sort of tense proxy war of quietly calculated insults. “What Barack and I are really proud of are giving the gift of health care to 8 million Americans,” Obama says. “You know, which is funny, because I tried to give them that gift 16 years ago, so it’s more like a regift,” Clinton responds, prompting Obama to shoot back, “But we actually delivered it.” They continue their address by acknowledging the challenges of being a working mother. Clinton, however, thinks she knows just a _bit_ more about this, since she spent years crisscrossing the globe dealing with humanitarian crises. “You know, but I suppose it’s also tough to make a chubby kid eat an apple.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/95297/snl-mothers-day-address/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/95297/snl-mothers-day-address/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama Deliver a Special Passive-Aggressive Mother's Day Address On SNL","datePublished":"2014-05-11T14:26:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:34.214Z","description":"The bitterness is directed not toward their moms, but toward each other","url":"https://time.com/95297/snl-mothers-day-address/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Hillary Clinton","SNL","Saturday Night Live","Michelle Obama","Arts","Mother's Day"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb0483a7126c5a09/69868ece3bc99901151a365c/screen-shot-2014-05-11-at-9-58-37-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb0483a7126c5a09/69868ece3bc99901151a365c/screen-shot-2014-05-11-at-9-58-37-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-05-11 at 9.58.37 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/95297/snl-mothers-day-address/","name":"Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama Deliver a Special Passive-Aggressive Mother's Day Address On SNL"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Weekly Address: The First Lady Marks Mother's Day and Speaks Out on the Tragic Kidnapping in Nigeria","description":"Weekly Address- The First Lady Marks Mother's Day and Speaks Out on the Tragic Kidnapping in Nigeria","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vsK9t8e2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-05-10T14:32:05.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vsK9t8e2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/95297/snl-mothers-day-address/","duration":"PT5M24S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/95297/snl-mothers-day-address/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```