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Your humble correspondent will be watching Saturday Night Live this evening with great interest. Why? Because despite the Occupy Wall Street protests taking place at Zuccotti Park just blocks away from the studio for over a month, SNL has had only one indirect sketch on that situation despite the overwhelming comedy gold being offered up. Yes, last week SNL had a sketch about Mayor Michael Bloomberg reacting to the OWS protests but it was more of a dig at the mayor than anything else. What makes this really strange is that OWS protests are constantly delivering up an hilarious comedy...

Ben & Jerry's latest ice cream creation -- "Schweddy Balls" -- doesn't agree with the tastes of at least one national conservative group. "The vulgar new flavor has turned something as innocent as ice cream into something repulsive," read a statement released by One Million Moms, a division of the Mississippi-based American Family Association. "Not exactly what you want a child asking for at the supermarket."

Saturday Night Live opened this week’s show with a parody of CNN’s The Situation Room, with Jason Sudeikis doing a dead-on impression of Wolf Blitzer reporting on an absurdist version of President Obama’s speech in El Paso this week. Lampooning criticism of the President’s lone, low-key mention of Osama bin Laden’s killing, Fred Armisen delivered an over-the-top Obama smoking, trash-talking, and basically letting it all hang out. The President has predictably come under fire for mentioning bin Laden’s killing during a speech at a DNC event in El Paso, Texas. During the speech, someone in the crowd shouted, “Thank...

A week after picking apart many of the undeclared Republican presidential candidates (including one, Newt Gingrich, who became a declared candidate this week) "Saturday Night Live" turned its attention to President Barack Obama and his perceived showboating over the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Conservatives have frequently criticized the president over perceived showboating about bin Laden's death. Radio host Rush Limbaugh said Obama used the words "I," "me" and "my" too much in his first public comments after bin Laden's killing. Then, in follow-up programs, Limbaugh attacked Obama's subsequent public appearances, including one near the Mexican border in...

NBC's Tina Fey guest-hosted "Saturday Night Live" last evening, and viewers could hardly be surprised her network took the opportunity to once again use her to bash former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. In a mock Republican presidential candidates debate, before depicting Palin as an idiot that doesn't fully understand English, Fey did manage to take a humorous swipe at the soon to be exiting CBS "Evening News" host saying, "I want to acknowledge that this week we finally vanquished one of the world's great villains, and I for one am thrilled to say good riddance to Katie Couric" (video follows...

A friend and I watched the latest Republican debate [yesterday], and he said that if Herman Cain were elected President that he would be our first black President. This started a conversation on FaceBook which led to me compiling some prior humorous videos before Obama was elected. Very Funny!

Tina Fey may have been the darling of the left for her Emmy-winning impersonations of Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live.” But the comedic actress-director is now expressing regrets about her Palin pokes in her new book, “Bossypants.” As a matter of fact, Fey suspects that mimicking the former Alaska governor may have hurt the ratings of her NBC sitcom, “30 Rock.” “Some may argue that exploiting Governor Palin and her family helped bring attention to my low-rated TV show,” Fey writes in an excerpt published in USA Today. “I am proud to say you are wrong. My TV show...

Comedian Victoria Jackson, who attended this years Conservative Political Action Conference, made headlines over the weekend for her Friday column onWorldNetDaily.com, “The Muslims Next Door,” in which she criticized the television program “Glee” for continuously promoting a socially liberal lifestyle. The latest episode of “Glee” included comedian Kathy Griffin playing a tea party-inspired character and two gay male students sharing a much-anticipated kiss.

In the tradition of lampooning everything, Conservative SNL attacked Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann’s response to the President’s State of the Union Address last Saturday night. SNL represented that Congresswoman Bachmann’s core message was not properly conveyed. But it was. Those who were listening to the case that Rep. Bachmann presented got a clear picture of the duplicitous nature of the Barry Hussein Soetoro administration, that is why SNL felt the need for a second attempt to discredit the message.(see 4:11min video)

At least someone's laughing at the state of our economy. On SNL this weekend, the hilarious opening skit used the G20 summit, gold, and US debt, and Glenn Beck for a laugh. Glenn Beck "doesn't know what he's talking about." China wants to buy gold, but all of its assets are tied up in US treasuries. And Obama is getting tired of Hu Jintao asking him to "do sex to him" with the lights off - not on. It's great - watch it below. Where did this all start? At the G20 summit, where Obama and Hu Jintao did not...

SNL opened last night with a sketch spoofing President Obama (Fred Armisen) making a campaign stop in Nevada to stump for a struggling Harry Reid (Paul Brittain). After a glowing introduction from Obama, Reid asks him if he'd mind if he distanced himself from the President. "Do what you have to do, Harry, I've got your back," says Obama. Whereupon Reid reveals that he is actually a Birther. “I don’t understand why, if you were born in this country, you won’t just show us your birth certificate. I mean is that too much to ask?” “You’re right!” Says Obama to...

The ongoing issue of President Obama's refusal to release his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate got a comedic jolt in the arm last night during the opening sketch of "Saturday Night Live," which featured a call for Obama to finally make it public. The NBC program premiered a skit in which Obama, portrayed by comedian Fred Armisen, was campaigning in Las Vegas this weekend for Sen. Harry Reid, played by Paul Brittain. "Neither of us is very popular in this state," Reid confided in the president before addressing a crowd of supporters in the parody. "I thought I was," responded Obama....

Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday pushed backed against those who accuse the Justice Department of enforcing civil rights laws based on race, saying people need to just "look at the facts." "The notion that we are enforcing any civil rights laws -- voting or others -- on the basis of race, ethnicity or gender is simply false," Holder said. For more than a year, Republicans and others have been questioning why the Obama administration reversed course on a federal lawsuit against two members of the New Black Panther Party, who were videotaped outside a

Three clips for you from last night’s season premiere, although only one is worth watching. The O’Donnell skit is the “newsworthy” bit but the gags are so predictable that you might as well skip it. How predictable? Put it this way: At one point, they actually have her in a witch’s hat riding a broom. So perfunctory is it, in fact, that I wonder if they were forced to do something like this because all the good comic material had already been mined while they were on summer hiatus. See, e.g., this absurd mock ad about the Delaware race created...

DOVER, Del. — With the new season of "Saturday Night Live" comes a fresh batch of political satire — and Delaware Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell is the first target. The Republican candidate's past statements were fodder for the opening sketch on Saturday night's broadcast on NBC.

Martin Short's wife, Nancy Dolman, has died at the age of 58. The pair had been married for 30 years. News of Dolman's passing sent Web searches soaring for her biography, photos, and cause of death. E! Online reports that Dolman had been battling cancer for three years. RadarOnline.com reports that "there will be no funeral service for the actor's wife per her own wishes." Short and Dolman met while working together on a Canadian production of the musical "Godspell" in the 1970s. A blog dedicated to the musical's production hosts Dolman's original biography from the program. According to The...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Al Franken apologized Thursday for being rude to Sen. Mitch McConnell as the Senate's top Republican was winding up a solemn debate on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Franken, a liberal Democrat from Minnesota, was presiding over the Senate as McConnell explained his opposition to President Barack Obama's high-court nominee. A Senate GOP aide said Franken made theatrical gestures and whispered under his breath as the Kentucky senator spoke. It was distracting enough that McConnell went up to the former comedian afterward and said, "This isn't 'Saturday Night Live,' Al."

Saturdays Night Live ran a repeat yesterday of one of their most successful skits this year. The reminder of the joint press-conference of President Obama and the China’s Dear Leader comes at the right time. China just reduced its holdings of US Treasury debt. Is it a political move or a sound investing strategy? I am afraid it is the second. While President Obama continues to campaign on his Health Care reform, nobody is buying its miracle effect on the deficit anymore. The Congressional Budget Office finally revealed the whole picture and the grim true came to live: ObamaCare...

Help a freeper get John Goodman to play Elena Kagan on SNL. He played Linda Tripp 6 times. This would be easy. All he would need would be a string of pearls.