‘SNL’ Skit Mocks Lance Armstrong, Manti T’eo and Jodie Foster
The late-night comedy sketch program wasted no time making fun of the week's big news events, tackling them in its opening skit that featured Taran Killam playing another person who has been in the headlines recently--CNN host Piers Morgan.
Between Lance Armstrong’s doping admission to Oprah, Jodie Foster’s coming out speech at the Golden Globes and Manti T’eo being exposed as the victim of a bizarre “dead girlfriend” hoax, “Saturday Night Live” had a lot of material to work with this week. The late-night comedy sketch program lampooned the events in its opening skit that featured Taran Killam playing another person who has been in the headlines recently–CNN host Piers Morgan.
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