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Paterson ‘Enraged’ Over Saturday Night Live Skit – Video

Governor David Paterson was mocked on ‘Saturday Night Live‘ this weekend. The “Weekend Update” portion of SNL featured Fred Armisen dressed as Paterson and poking fun at his blindness, wandering eye and his uber-modest behavior. Blind jokes included holding graphs upside down.

SNL cast member Amy Poehler’s had also decided to leave the show. She was saying her goodbye during the segment when Fred walked in the shot and nonstop laughter ensued.

The skits offended the Governor and he is furious.

“The governor engages in humor all the time, and he can certainly take a joke,” Paterson’s spokesman, Errol Cockfield, said today. However, this particular ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit unfortunately chose to ridicule people with physical disabilities and imply that disabled people are incapable of having jobs with serious responsibilities.”

National Federation of the Blind has also taken offense to the skit and released a statement:

“When you have a perception problem like we have, you take these things a little more seriously. We have 70 percent unemployment – and it’s not because we can’t work. Obviously, the governor of New York is blind, and he’s doing the job. Whenever you have a portrayal that calls the basic capacity of [blind people] into question, that’s a potential problem.”

Seriously…we have a perfectly good target currently sitting in the Oval Office and SNL is taking jabs at the blind guy. That is the real offense here.

T.R. Knight Walks from Grey’s Anatomy – Update!

T.R. Knight is said to have “walked off” Grey’s Anatomy. He is said to have simply quit do to a “stupid story line.” He hasn’t been at a read through since the second episode of this season.

“He hasn’t attended table reads since episode 2. He is pissed and miserable and thinks his story line is stupid. He said goodbye to his hair and makeup people last week. He says he is done and has quit. ABC has not released him. Shondra Rhimes, the producer called him and he told her he had nothing to say. He has packed his dressing room.”

Ugh. They should just change the title to “Whiney High School Bitches Play Doctor.” I mean, I was all on his side when the whole Homo-Gate scandal was going down, but unless someone crapped in his Kashi, I don’t get it.

UPDATE: “T.R. has never walked off set in the middle of filming. He attended the table read today and will be shooting this week, like any other week of production,” the Grey’s Anatomy rep told Us.

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