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(Newser) - Domestic violence does not comedy make, and the folks over at Popeater aren't laughing at Saturday Night Live's sketch lampooning Tiger Woods and his golf-club-wielding wife, Elin Nordegren—particularly with musical guest "Rihanna on board, we wonder if a domestic violence gag was in especially poor taste," staffers...

(Newser) - Saturday’s SNL cold opener—which poked fun at Obama’s deficit spending—conclusively marked the show as an “occasionally humorous right-wing propaganda organ,” writes Ethan Porter of True/Slant . SNL’s been obviously anti-Obama since the primaries, pausing only to mock Sarah Palin, who's far less popular than...

(Newser) - With the Jenny-Slate-says-f---ing-on-live-TV clip going viral and making Saturday Night Live nearly relevant again, E! has to wonder—was it staged? It unrolls its best guess at what happened:

• Sarah Palin bows out of politics, which means no more Tina Fey on SNL.
• Lorne Michaels realizes he'll have to wait

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(Newser) - SNL won't drop newbie Jenny Slate over the F-bomb she dropped on her live debut Saturday. NBC tells the Orlando Sentinel's Hal Boedeker that the frickin’ slipup, which viewers were supposed to hear between the lines, is not cause for dismissal. Perhaps Slate can even incorporate the scandal in the...