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.

— Posted by Tracy Bloom.

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