FRED ARMISEN IS BARACK OBAMA: Yeah, Saturday Night Live’s much-anticipated version of Barack Obama was a scowly Fred Armisen who kept waving his left index finger around. Meh. [NYT]

SNL’s Fred Armisen impersonates lots of people. He’s delivered on the left-handed fey rock set: Liberace, Phil Spector, Lou Reed and Prince. Nailed the evil, weird quad of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Vicente Fox, Hugo Chávez and Steve Jobs. He’s good, right? Now, he’s added “political comedian” Nicholas Fehn, a shaggy, stammering hipster and ADD victim: “I do the type of comedy…Basically what I do is I take headlines … I take newspapers. I read them. And I comment on them. It’s my own skewed view on things.” Imagine our massive meta moment. MORE »