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Anyone watching Saturday Night Live over the past five-plus years knows how infrequently the show targets President Barack Obama. It wasn’t always that way. Past SNL casts have mocked Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush with

With Jimmy Fallon leaving NBC’s Late Night to take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno on February 17 and former Saturday Night Live star Seth Meyers filling Fallon’s shoes at Late Night, one thing is certain, audiences will get hosts

1. Mark Ruffalo’s Mother Sought Illegal Abortion of Mark Ruffalo? “Avengers” star Mark Ruffalo celebrated the 41st anniversary of Roe vs. Wade with a video that tells the tale of his own mother seeking out an illegal abortion. Ruffalo doesn’t

In a rare case of the left criticizing the left, The Huffington Post slammed Saturday Night Live for its apparent racist history, noting the lack of diversity in the show’s staff in a piece titled “SNL’s Unfunny Race Problem.”  Above

Saturday Night Live, the NBC show famous for lampooning conservatives for their narrowmindedness, has addressed its own lack of diversity and hired two black women, LaKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones, to its writing staff.  The Hollywood Reporter said that the two

By LOUISE WATTAssociated PressBEIJINGA popular online video site is bringing the irreverent, topical humor of “Saturday Night Live” to China. The late-night U.S. comedy sketch show that regularly mocks politicians, popular culture and celebrities is being shown exclusively on the

Steve Martin routinely fires off one-liners via Twitter, but this weekend he used the site’s 140-character allotment to apologize for a borderline racist barb. The SNL alum was cracking grammar jokes on Twitter .. when someone asked, “is this how

Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels has heard the complains that his sketch comedy show lacks diversity. Now, it appears that the Mark Twain Prize winner is doing something about it. Michaels secretly auditioned a group of black female comics

All it took was a political train wreck of gargantuan proportions for liberal comedians to turn on President Barack Obama. For five years most comedians treated Obama with care, avoiding punitive comedy memes, focusing on the GOP whenever possible and,

Dennis Miller didn’t suddenly realize President Barack Obama could be mocked just like any other president. The SNL alum has been tweaking Obama for years, both on his nationally syndicated radio show as well as via social media. His perch

Obama is now the target of late night talk show comedy. During Obama’s first term and the good old days of when Americans signed up for insurance voluntarily, comics found it difficult to find anything with which to lampoon the

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (UPI) — U.S. actress Whoopi Goldberg said she was troubled by a seeming lack of diversity among the cast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Goldberg put the topic on the table this week during “The View,”

Since its 1975 debut, Saturday Night Live has had 137 cast members, but of that number, only four have been black women. And with the 2007 departure of the bi-racial Maya Rudolph, that has left SNL with no black female

Saturday Night Live addressed the racial makeup of its cast last night in the show’s opening sketch. It’s a bold move for a show routinely accused of lacking diversity, and having a talented black actress like host Kerry Washington as

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spent the week both in front of a Congressional panel and behind plenty of wisecracks from both late night comics and Saturday Night Live. Alec Baldwin simply sees her as a gutsy politician

Tina Fey, formerly of Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, has been given a once rarely seen straight-to-series order for a new comedy by the suits at NBC. The story will follow a woman who escaped from a doomsday cult