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How to Solve SNL's Barack Problem

Yeeeah! - Snarky Celebrity Gossip found this 2/29/2008 on jossip.com

Lorne Michaels isn’t sweating any of the racial controversy for having Fred Armisen play Barack Obama. Armisen, of Venezuelan and Japanese descent, sat with a Hillary Clinton-playing Amy Poehler during their Saturday Night Live debate skit, and will reprise his role of Barack Obama this week. It’s sure to upset some, like the Chicago Tribune ’s Maureen Ryan who ...