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Saturday Night Live Doesn’t Know When Enough is Enough

3:21 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Entertainment

18 Dec 2008

I’m a little bit late on posting this, but it’s important nevertheless. Fred Armisen is just about one of the most irritating a-holes I have ever witnessed. He is a biracial (German and Japanese) man who presents as white who plays every ethnic character in the Saturday Night Line up, including Barack Obama, Prince, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

And now, he just put forth this little beauty in which he mocks New York Governor David Paterson:

Paterson rightfully calls out the show by centering the lived experiences of the disabled community and how representations of disability as bumbling and fumbling has consequences:

“I can take a joke,” he told the New York Daily News. “But only 37% of disabled people are working and I’m afraid that that kind of third-grade humor certainly adds to this atmosphere.

“Let’s just say I don’t think it helped,” he said.

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2 Responses to Saturday Night Live Doesn’t Know When Enough is Enough

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Jay

December 19th, 2008 at 11:46 am

Umm you are more than late to this conversation..you are WRONG. Armisen is not japanese and german…his mother is Venezuelan, and his Father is 1/2 German and 1/2 Japanese. This is a Latino-centric website and yet you leave out the fact that he is 50% Hispanic! Mind boggling. He is in fact a funny guy, and SNL is known to taunt everyone..which is what makes the show great and on the air for 30 years.

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La Macha

December 19th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

Hi Jay! How are you doing?

Hola!

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