On Sunday, a spokeswoman for Paterson suggested the skit was offensive to all people with physical disabilities.
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Later, the skit turns to the Chinese workers who make the iPhone 5.
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The National Federation of the Blind also criticized the skit, calling it "absolutely wrong" and an attack on all blind Americans.
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The governor addressed the controversy Sunday night when reporters asked him about the skit, making a reference to a "third-grade depiction, " according to The New York Times.
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Shameful too was the skit performed at the prosecutors' annual dinner in which mockery was made of Mr Chen famously protesting at the humiliation of having to wear handcuffs.
But speaking to reporters Monday, the governor, who is known for his self-deprecating sense of humor, said he is more concerned with how other Americans with disabilities may view the skit.
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The comedy skit show stands apart from the rest not only because it is a cast of comedians versus a single talk show host, but also because it airs live only once a week, meaning there are less opportunities for artists to score an appearance.
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Whether it's actually funny is up to you, so check out the full skit below.
We ended the session with the actors performing a skit and a dance, and the entire event turned into a positive rally for change.
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The "SNL" skit featured cast member Fred Armisen as the governor.
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In the best scenes, Lithgow (who plays multiple roles), Gregg Henry, Tom Bower, Barton Heyman, and Frances Sternhagen spark off each other with the casual, skit-comic humor that De Palma mastered more than twenty years ago.
There have been ugly insinuations of racism -- with Ashcroft under attack for blocking black Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie White from moving to the federal bench, and Carnahan forced to apologize for appearing in blackface during a comedy skit in the 1960s.
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The event kicked off with a skit featuring young actors playing stereotypes of the most annoying people you've ever been stuck behind in a Starbucks line.
No one makes fun of fatal accidents, but the Triumph ordeal was the subject of a withering skit on Saturday Night Live.
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Last year he was seen in the London 2012 opening ceremony, delighting millions in a skit that saw his Mr Bean alter-ego "perform" the Chariots of Fire theme with The London Symphony Orchestra.
Maybe it's sort of like that Dave Chappelle skit where you have the black, blind racist, because he doesn't know he's black because he's blind.
Helping fuel the fire is a Feb. 28 skit on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
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That idea alone was mind blowing, that random people from random parts of the world might end up watching a skit that I just made and uploaded from home.
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In the same episode Saturday night, a skit portrayed embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in a cursed-filled testimony before a Senate panel, offering to sell senators Abraham Lincoln's wedding ring.
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We watched these imaginative youth perform a short skit in which a child resisted the manipulations of a recruiter, and we viewed their paintings depicting the ways in which trafficking networks strike.
Last weekend's opening skit begins with President Barack Obama praising the Senate.
The Anti Defamation League called MacFarlane our for a skit where Ted suggested to his costar Mark Wahlberg that he should pretend to be Jewish to get ahead in Hollywood.
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The ensuing conversation played out like an Abbott and Costello skit.
Last week the GOP sought to buy the world a Coke with a display of compassion and biodiversity so giddy that it might have been rejected as too over-the-top for a "Saturday Night Live" skit.
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"The underdog always gets the easier treatment until the underdog becomes the front-runner, " said Borger, pointing out that SNL skit aired just as that power shift was occurring.
But when Vayenas is not playing in the young entertainer's trombone section (or lampooning him during an onstage skit), he's writing his own futuristic-sounding instrumental jazz.
His laundry list of bad judgment includes: a failed drug test, bankruptcy, Ron Mexico, flipping the bird at fans, getting stopped at the airport with a water bottle containing a hidden compartment that launched a classic SNL skit and of course operating an illegal dog-fighting operation.
The term "more Cowgill" a reference to a "Saturday Night Live" skit, in which characters ask for more cow bell has already become a team catch phrase.
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