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Spitzer Videos of the Day: The SNL Treatment
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 16, 2008
Modified Mar 16, 2008
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Saturday Night Live sunk its claws into Governor Spitzer's meaty scandal. Bill Heder played Spitzer while Kristen Wiig was Silda Wall Spitzer in the cold open (video above). Heder didn't try to emulate Spitzer's extreme lip biting, but he did have a balding head and slightly maniacal gleam in his eyes. Wiig brought pursued lip frustrated restraint to the suffering spouse.
On Weekend Update, Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers covered Spitzer in a "Really?!?" segment (video above) that was pretty hilarious, with references to unsafe sex, what Silda could have done and Senator Larry Craig. (Poehler also started off Update noting that "The Whistleblower was having his whistle blown.")
But there was no sign of "Kristen" aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre. Maybe next week!
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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