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Greg Gutfeld: 'Asking a Comedian to Make Fun of Obama Is Like Asking a Priest to Mock Christ'

By Noel Sheppard | April 16, 2012 | 20:31

Greg Gutfeld on Monday attacked comics for not making jokes about the current White House resident.

Appearing on Fox News's The Five, Gutfeld said, "Asking a comedian to make fun of Obama is like asking a priest to mock Christ" (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

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SNL Slams Arianna Huffington for Stealing From the New York Times

By Noel Sheppard | February 12, 2012 | 20:33

People familiar with the Huffington Post are quite aware of numerous complaints against the online publication regarding content theft.

NBC's Saturday Night Live surprisingly referenced this issue in a Weekend Update sketch mocking editor Arianna Huffington (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

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Seth Meyers on MSNBC's White House Dinner After Party: 'Obama Makes the Kool-Aid and Everyone Drinks It'

By Noel Sheppard | May 01, 2011 | 09:30

"Saturday Night Live's" Seth Meyers headlined Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and somewhat surprisingly went after media outlets on both sides of the aisle.

Apart from jibes at Fox News, the New York Times, and NPR, Meyers said of MSNBC's event after party, "President Obama makes the Kool-Aid, and everyone there drinks it" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

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Saturday Night Live Unites Bush and Kanye West to Bash the Former President

By Noel Sheppard | November 14, 2010 | 09:33

As NewsBusters has been reporting all week, the media have used the occasion of George W. Bush's published memoirs "Decision Points" to rekindle their hatred for the 43rd president.

Not surprisingly, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" took its shots at Bush by uniting him with Kanye West during "Weekend Update" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

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SNL Blindly Offends on 'Weekend Update'

By Erin R. Brown | December 16, 2008 | 15:13

"Saturday Night Live" has always made politicians’ policies and missteps the butt of jokes, but the popular NBC show stooped too far on Dec.13, when it made fun of a governor’s disability.

On Saturday, Seth Meyers’ “Weekend Update” bit featured a sketch with Fred Armisen playing New York’s Democratic Governor David Paterson. Armisen played the role of the mostly blind Paterson with one eye half closed, and was shown needing help finding the desk right in front of him.

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Tuned In To See Sarah, And Nasty Clarence Thomas Joke Broke Out

By Mark Finkelstein | October 19, 2008 | 09:17

I thought Sarah Palin did more than fine on Saturday Night Live [Noel's got the video here]. In particular, during her Weekend Update appearance Palin displayed a speaking poise and polish exceeding that of the other candidates on both tickets.  But Republicans who agree to appear on such shows put themselves in the lap of the liberal media gods.  And those lesser deities abused their power last night, running a nasty joke at Clarence Thomas's expense during Weekend Update shortly before Palin appeared.

The set-up was the fact that, in a dissenting opinion published this past week, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts employed the style of a hard-bitten detective novel.  That set up this . . .

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