Has Governor Paterson learned to take a joke yet?
In what I call a gutsy (and still funny) move by Saturday Night Live (SNL), to remind everyone in America to 'get a sense of humor', the show went after New York's blind governor Paterson again.
That's right, again. You may recall the show took a lot of heat for mocking the Governor last month and making a parody out of his current tenure in office. More specifically they made jokes over him being blind. A lot of jokes. From him wandering through the set to holding a chart upside down and looking in the wrong direction because he is blind. (See Original December/2009 Controversial Video Below):
But SNL also made a lot of fun of every aspect of his life. They created a caricaturization of his resentment for New Jersey which is now a running joke. Frankly it's hilarious.
Now we have a Governor of a State that should be pretty thick skinned since he is in POLITICS in the first place. I mean come on... if ever the expression "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" applied to anyone, it would be a politician. You don't get in that business if you can't take the heat. But hey, The Governor's office did have some affect on how SNL portrayed in this latest sketch though. They minimized sight gags on him being blind this time around, but they are still there. The focus on most of the jokes were of Paterson being a hard nosed New Yorker with an opinion on everything.
