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SNL Returns, Fred Armisen is Barack Obama
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Jen Carlson
Published Feb 24, 2008
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Saturday Night Live is back! Wasting no time digging into primary season, the opening skit was a debate between Hillary and Barack, immediately answering the big question posed this week: who will be our Fauxbama? The answer: Fred Armisen! The Huffington Post raises the controversial points of this decision, given the previously-noted lack of minority players on the show (Armisen is not black - he's Venezuelan and Japanese - but has played Prince on SNL) and the whole "Is Obama black enough?" debate. As for the sketch itself, it was about the media's infatuation with Obama - and it even included Obama Girl!
A familiar face to the SNL stage, Tina Fey, returned last night taking over hosting duties. Her monologue focused on the reason the show has been absent for so long, the writers' strike. Steve Martin joined her, himself having hosted about 14 times. Watch in the clip below:
Other highlights were the show's nod to some Oscar noms, There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men. Yes, there were milkshakes, Friendo:
Mike Huckabee himself made a cameo on Weekend Update, but our highlight of that segment - besides Tina Fey's bitch piece - was Amy Poehler's mention of the lost and recently found in the subway cat, Georgia. Poehler reported that Georgia survived her 25 days underground "by hooking up with a hip-hop dance crew."
What did you think of their first episode in sixteen weeks?
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