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• 'SNL' premieres with a new Barack Obama and featured players

  This weekend, "Family Guy" funny man and RISD grad Seth McFarlane kicked off the 38th season of "Saturday Night Live." The hour opened with Jay Pharoah as President Barack Obama, a role previously played by Fred Armisen, and Jason Sudeikis ...

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• SNL's Season Premiere: Seth MacFarlane's Night of a Thousand Voices

  Those inclined to grumble over SNL's quality (or lack thereof) tend to repeat a certain complaint at the beginning of every season: "They had the whole summer off and THIS was the best they could do?

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• Frank Ocean's Big Weekend: 'SNL' Debut And A Brand-New Video

  "Family Guy" creator and "Ted" director Seth MacFarlane introduced Frank to the "SNL" stage for the first time to perform "Thinkin Bout You" (the same track he sang at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards).

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• Top Lines of the Weekend: SNL, Obama, Romney, elites, and Max Rice

  SNL debuts a new Barack Obama and Clint Eastwood, Rick Santorum takes on "elite smart people", Mitt Romney on sleeping in the near-buff, and a comedian punks "Fox and Friends" on the weekend's Top Lines.

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• 'SNL' With Seth MacFarlane: Relevancy Poll Week 1

  Always following in the footsteps of "SNL" Scorecard, the SNL Relevancy Poll now kicks off its season as well.

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• 'SNL' on The CW? It's 'Normal' in Salt Lake

  The New Normal got a blast of publicity when KSL Salt Lake City said it would not air the show due to its "rude and crude" dialogue.

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• Daily Rehearsal: 'SNL' features 'chubby', 'brunette' and 'dopey-looking ...

  Tom Shales has joined Roger Ebert to blog for the Sun-Times. His first task: review Saturday night's SNL. Shales used the opportunity to describe all three new cast-members from Chicago in less-than glowing terms.

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• 'SNL' Takes Clint Eastwood's Chair Act On The Road (VIDEO)

  Really President Obama. chicanorepublicano: How about radio conversation Between President Obama and the Pimp. http://www.huffingtonpost.

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• 38th Season Premiere of SNL Dominates Time Period

  The 38th season premiere of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE with host Seth MacFarlane and musical guest Frank Ocean (4.8/12 in metered-market households), dominated its time period.

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• 'Saturday Night Live' season premiere tackles politics, pop culture

  The most inappropriate: He began his monologue by saying he has loved "SNL" since he was a kid and promised himself that if he ever hosted the show, he'd say, "Please go out with me, Farrah Fawcett.

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• New York Post Columnist's Fat Hate Rant Targets New SNL Cast Member

  New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser is mad that you're fat. And she's mad that he's fat and that she's fat, oh, and you too.

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• Clint Eastwood, the chair, 'SNL' and 'Trouble with the Curve'

  The one thing Clint Eastwood could not have known - or may well have known because after all, he's a smart guy - is that his RNC soliloquy with a chair was likely to upstage his promotional efforts on behalf of "Trouble with the Curve," out this Friday.

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• A History of 'Saturday Night Live' at the Emmys

  In other words, if Hader and/or Wiig were to win for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, respectively, not only would they be the first SNL players to win in those categories (Wiig has been nominated in her ...

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• SNL Takes On Florida's Chonga Voters

  Saturday Night Live premiered its 38th season over the weekend, and as expected in an election year, kicked the political comedy into overdrive.

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• Primetime Creative Arts Emmys: 'SNL,' 'George Harrison,' 'Game of Thrones' rule

  "Saturday Night Live" received four Emmys; one for Jimmy Fallon's guest hosting, hairstyling, variety series directing, and technical direction.

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• Saturday Night Live: Seth MacFarlane did his best

  Seth MacFarlane brought all his voices to hosting the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. The Family Guy creator came off as a genial fellow who gamely enjoyed being in a bunch of mostly unamusing SNL sketches. MacFarlane's opening segment was ...

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• 'SNL' season premiere dominated by political humor

  Sketches about funny voices and the 2012 election dominated the opening of "Saturday Night Live's" 38th season.

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• 'SNL' Recap: Frank Ocean, John Mayer and Seth McFarlane Kick Off New Season

  After a summer of change at Saturday Night Live - stalwart castmembers Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg left the show, along with Abby Elliott - Lorne Michaels might have been expected to go the safe route for his Season 38 opener, relying on the easy ...

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• Chicagoans will have opportunity to shine on 'SNL'

  With the towering (if increasingly wearying) comedic potential of Kristen Wiig no longer a factor on "Saturday Night Live," the 38th season premiere of the NBC sketch show felt like a half-step into a new era. And not a moment too soon. Andy Samberg ...

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• 'SNL' Spoofs Honey Boo Boo &…

  Weekend Update anchor (and SNL head writer) Seth Meyers brought on the stars of TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo: Mama, played by Bobby Moynihan, and Honey Boo Boo, played by Vanessa Bayer, for their take on politics.

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