The West Wing 1x18 - CJ Cregg lip dubs The Jackal

[@Gamarama8]

The most underrated part of this is when Leo says “Oh where she lip synchs to the thing? I love that.”

[@fe5018]

Alex G ikr, that smile 😁

[@ekim1018]

I love how every man on the senior staff is at least a little in love with CJ

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

More than a little!

[@gene8172]

What’s not to be in love with?

[@davester1432]

Me too.

[@jkrasney1]

Why not? I would be, too!

[@tommymc723]

Leo's grin when he says hang in there is priceless

[@Tahkaullus01]

First rule of the Jackal: Never talk to me during the Jackal.

[@fiyeroselphaba]

I wish I could see that take

[@terrygracy8345]

Sam and Mallory. Shipping that all day. I was really rooting for that relationship

[@shahabalikhan7587]

Sam & Ainsley Hayes for me ❤

[@jessecarliner7733]

There was a story that they had to re-shoot this scene because Allison Janney was too good doing this the first time.

[@peterfirbank2137]

That’s 100% true. They needed it to be more awkward so Tom Shelame reshot the whole thing

[@aqu1r3]

I've wanted to see that take since I first heard of it

[@cchoe-juliak3212]

@@aqu1r3 Search for Allison Janney Jackal Arsenio Hall. She does it there

[@aqu1r3]

@@cchoe-juliak3212 thank you!

[@cecilking2924]

never talk to me during the Jackal

[@amangat1]

You hang in there son

[@TimJenningsVideo]

The double take makes the line even more amazing.

[@theAverageJoe25]

I could go on a tirade about how toxic this comment section but the real issue here is that people are talking during the Jackal

[@ClearwaterSubProductions]

NEVER TALK DURING THE JACKAL!

[@niamhspeirs3656]

You haven’t seen Shakespeare the way it’s meant to be done - the most Sorkin line ever !!!

[@sandih29687]

AMEN!

[@markmarderosian4025]

3:38: Great expression, great lighting

[@fe5018]

Mark Marderosian that is some damn good lighting.

[@markmarderosian4025]

The expression at 3:38 sells this.

[@davidbennettracing538]

"Don't talk to me during the Jackal..!"

[@fe5018]

David Bennett, NEVER, never talk to me during the jackal.

[@joemckim1183]

@@fe5018 The first rule of The Jackal Club is to never talk during The Jackal.

[@abrookins2006]

3:41 Rob Lowe, what the hell are you doing?

[@almostfm]

It's commonly called "the whitest thing ever"

[@fe5018]

Alex Brookins horrifying us, mostly.

[@eastwestcoastkid]

Alex Brookins that’s what we are wondering 🥺🥺🤦🏿‍♂️

[@eastwestcoastkid]

almostfm ☠️💀👻..this coming from a brother 🤨😐🥺

[@sandih29687]

Gag

[@MrsAngelaGrogan1]

love CJ and I love her doing "The Jackel". Thanks for the upload.

[@jamesstrum1849]

OMG wonderful writting what more can you expect from the West Wing writers.😁😁😁

[@theAverageJoe25]

The best part is that it’s an inside joke that originated on set when the show creator stumbled upon Allison janney doing the jackal with Richard Schiff smoking a cigar and the creator was like “oh we’re so putting this in the show”

[@Craig-ib7gk]

The president can't smoke in the White House, but Toby can fume the place up with a stogie, so long as CJ is doing the Jackal ? Mmmm k

[@mosesgunn373]

A double standard that applies to the boss as opposed to the employees? Shocker!!

[@ninino86]

@@mosesgunn373 Well guessing that Toby hasnt lit anything on fire ;)

[@cdubbau135]

It was because the President had supposedly quit smoking.

[@carltontaylor6500]

Also he just got a Supreme Court Justice approved, hence “The Jackal” celebration.

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

Toby is barely alive fter the Mendosa confirmation...

[@libertyann439]

One of the best scenes🎈🎵🎶

[@EvanMurphyCapstone]

I love Cj- I love whole show!!!!!! ( fave character? Toby)

[@ryan4nayr]

So glad you listed season + episode, very thoughtful of you.

[@melmcpherson5026]

Toby Ziegler is the kind of guy that the strippers would all know by name. Josh Lyman and Sam Seaborn meanwhile are in different area code from cool.

[@stephencronin1080]

Self assurance is cool af and Toby has that in spades

[@sombrashadow0013]

Crazy to think Toby and Odin are the same person

[@Guerilla30892001]

While, if you were with Toby, he would insist "I just want to see what one of these types of clubs is like...."while., I agree, all the girls are calling him by his first name

[@clarkmacgowan5114]

Ironically, the actor who plays Toby is married to a woman who played a stripper in a movie. She got in such great shape rehearsing that she had a pole put in their house and now she pulled answers for him. Her name is Sheila kelley. You can look it up, true story, pretty funny.

[@davidpolston4172]

I've seen every episode numerous times...I conclude that Toby slept with 107 women... Ironically, CJ wasn't one of them

[@claymanbob1]

Still love this.

[@demonqueen26]

I love C.J

[@jazza42uk]

RIP Ronny Jordan

[@maryroark469]

I love when she lets down her hair

[@r.g.crawfordm.d.6107]

Sometimes it does seem this series did have it all. DocBob

[@CayenneRand]

cbb brought me

[@adrian993]

Amazing clip, as usual...:)

[@ninino86]

Complete nerd, but did anyone else notice that CJ's wearing her jacket through the entire thing, except the last scene, where it is suddenly missing? ;)

[@stevethomas2285]

Excellent catch!

[@mckenzieraynor8436]

Can we talk about Leo's face somewhere around 2:45? It's concerning.

[@forgoogletotrack7181]

Oh please, I was lip syncing this song when it came out, lol. I have all Ronny Jordan's vinyls in a Rubbermaid here somewhere.

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Very nice...

[@philoshaughnessy906]

1000% cool.

[@Madison-rk5is]

Why does everyone hate 3:41 I'm actually really confused lol

[@ufotofu9]

What is "the jackal" a reference to?

[@theresechristiansen9769]

Ronny Jordon released it on his 1993 album. He died (I think) in 2014.

[@fe5018]

Geoffrey Zoref there's no wider context, I don't think. Sorkin saw Allison Janney singing along to it and worked it into a script. It doesn't mean anything more in the show, the point is just that the characters find it as funny as Sorkin did.

[@sandih29687]

F E Or as entertaining. CJ only does “The Jackal” when there is something to celebrate. At least that is the impression that I got.

[@Guerilla30892001]

it 's not that it done, it when it's being done. And, whose doing it

[@Microtonal_Cats]

Love it. If this happened in the White House today, everyone in the room would be condemned as racist.

[@WoWhistorian]

Probably because everyone in the White House today *is* a racist. Weird, that.

[@crucisnh]

@@WoWhistorian Typical liberal lies and bullshit.

[@theAverageJoe25]

@@crucisnh a republican calling liberals liars is not only ironic but extremely funny

[@clarkmacgowan5114]

I'll settle for the fact that everyone who was in The White House 3 years ago is just flat out condemned. Condemned to jail, condemned to Hell. Works for me.

[@christaiki]

RIP RJ

[@ashwinoashwin]

Hi! I am from india and a big west wing fan. But I don’t understand the jackal. Is this some pop culture thing? Can anyone point me to some reference behind this scene?

[@clarkmacgowan5114]

The Jackal is an actual song. And the joke is that CJ is really good at lip syncing to it and the staff finds it entertaining to watch her perdorm to it.

[@cmcjss]

love ww

[@keyboarddancers7751]

Does that song actually exist as a separate entity?

[@PhiniasTBirdpocket]

Ronny Jordan-The Jackal

[@theresechristiansen9769]

how else would you dub it except by mouth? :) you can't dub step it -not in the way one might think. Aaand you can't dab it either. Lip synch might be better. Just being a *tad* picky. Great upload, thank you.

[@travisjohnson6676]

in all seriousness, if this aired today she would be condemned for cultural appropriation

[@michaeldavies4871]

BS

[@drmayeda1930]

True, but there is no one on the cast who could do the song. It would need race and gender match.

[@sugarkane4830]

And 4 years later it’s much much worse.

[@LikeFreshmusic]

exactly

[@simondarrow4688]

you, weak, cowardly, vitamin-deficience: cj cregg is heterosexual me, powerful, strong, bursting with vitamins: explain this then

[@theresechristiansen9769]

Well, that makes not a snooker of sense.

[@johndoe9450]

I understand the sentiment. But I never really thought it was that great... So what - You lip sync a pop song? What's the biggie? They are all talking about it as if it was the second comming of our Lord - It's just a bit with a song..?

[@theAverageJoe25]

It’s partly because it’s an inside joke that originated on set when the show creator stumbled upon Allison janney doing the jackal with Richard Schiff smoking a cigar and the creator was like “oh we’re so putting this in the show”

[@axucaroso]

Because in real life a CJ would never have even known the song, maybe not even the artist. But somehow not only can she lipsync the song with the appropriate gestures, but does so while being just the right amount of cool. As opposed to to whatever caused Sam's fingers to spasm.

[@nashburnette7247]

Bet you're a real blast at parties, John Doe. 🙄

[@casey6556]

That’s sort of the joke. It’s hinted to be a recurring sort of inside thing amongst the various friends and coworkers in the White House blowing off steam which frankly wouldn’t make much sense to anyone else.

[@ThomasGlynnJr]

School vouchers are only opposed by the teacher's union & politicians - NEVER by the communities/parents of the students that would benefit. Not once. Not ever...

[@kereminde]

There's a deeper story involved with that thread. But enough talk about that. It's time to watch Allison Janney work the lip synch.

[@theAverageJoe25]

Why are you talking during the Jackal?

[@clarkmacgowan5114]

WRONG. Play no big surprise that you would lie about this. You're Republicun. Your kind lies about everything.

[@gerardhunt1890]

Of course a public school teacher is going to be against vouchers. Vouchers force them to do their job.

[@MrThehoyce]

No, all they do is take money from the poor schools that need it most and funnel it to already rich schools.

[@TadCornell]

School vouchers are a good idea. I couldn't be less sympathetic to Mallory even though I don't like Rob Lowe that much.

[@fe5018]

Thaddeus Cornell, you think private education should be further advantaged over public?

[@slomaks]

Love Ronny Jordan ad the attention this threw his away. That was the only good thing here though :D other than 'hang in there son'. Out of touch cringiatis terminalis.

[@clarkmacgowan5114]

Please list your accomplishments, we'll wait.

[@AmericanPoliceState]

The sad part, is if this was filmed today, it would be deemed "cultural appropriation" and racist, and probably "black face" .

[@storyarcher8125]

Its pretty ironic, actually. People don't realize how far Left this country has drifted in the last 10 years or so. I'm a right-leaning Libertarian and I love this show beyond reason, but it was dubbed a 'liberal fantasy' at the time it came out. If it were to air now, many of the positions that administration took or that the show as a whole illuminated would actually be considered offensive and/or written off as sexist, racist or homophobic today.

[@drmayeda1930]

Not unless she had make up on but with the lighting I didn't recognize her.

[@astronautmikejones]

You fucking idiots are so full of shit, this country drifts right, were all a frog slowly boiling in a pot, go fuck yourself

[@clarkmacgowan5114]

​@storyarcher8125 not a big surprise that a Libertarian doesn't tell the truth about anything including the content of this show. You make it clear you've never seen a single episode if you think they passed legislation that was homophobic and sexist. Do you guys not have anything else to do but try and eliminate all laws that regulate anything that would be bad for people, like toxins in the air and water? Actually I just figured out what else you guys do. You hop on to KZbin and populate the comments sections with comments about shows you've never seen, things you supposedly heard that never happened, things that somebody did that you disagree with that never actually happened...... you know, libertarian type behavior.

[@SWOBIZ]

Cultural appropriation?

[@crucisnh]

CJ would probably get "cancelled" for this.

[@gdlywom]

Sigh....this was SO fricken GOOFY. And not in a good way. 😒

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

Yes it was. Why this song of all songs and just plain...Why?

[@theAverageJoe25]

@@A_10_PaAng_111 there’s a behind scenes reason

[@95garyl]

The show would have been so much better without Josh and Toby

[@kereminde]

Nah, I think it's fine this way. Mandy can go, maybe... Hmm.

[@nashburnette7247]

Wow, your stupidity really knows no limits, does it ???

[@clarkmacgowan5114]

Do you know what KZbin would be better off without? You can get this if you try hard.

[@95garyl]

As far as I care, Toby was a useless character as well as the actor.

[@H1delta]

Poppycock! Toby is the conscience of the West Wing. He is the only one that will go mano a mano with the POTUS and get away with it. His position on most of the White House's initiatives are spot on and is inherent on the show. If you're not aware of this, then you're watching a different show. After all, he did win an Emmy along with the other actors except Rob Lowe. IMO, Lowe deserved to win an Emmy because it took great acting to play a Democrat on TV when you're actually a die hard republican.

[@theAverageJoe25]

Well as far as I care you have poor taste

[@95garyl]

@@H1delta that proves the award shows have no taste just political.

[@95garyl]

@@theAverageJoe25 we each have our opinion.