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SNL Thursday Night Live (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Last night SNL debuted the first of its election-season prime-time programs, "Saturday Night Live Thursday Weekend Update," featuring an opening sketch and an expanded "Weekend Update." The opening sketch spoofed Tuesday night's presidential debate, featuring former cast-member Chris Parnell returning as a stopwatch-happy Tom Brokaw, Darrell Hammond as a wandering, semi-senile John McCain and Fred Armisen as Barack Obama (including a cheap shot about Bill Ayers that rang a weird note, but more on that below). ...

Thursday Night Live- McCain vs. Biden
Flopping Aces — –> WaPo’s Tom Shales: last night’s 30-minute “SNL” seemed to have 90 minutes of sure-fire comedy crammed into it, the regulars drawing energy from their own luster. The debate spoof featured Fred Armisen as Obama, delivering answers in a dispassionate, monotonous singsong staccato, and Hammond as McCain, flashing abrupt and inappropriate grins, boasting obsessively about his maverick status in the Republican Party, and ...