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This is one subject that Saturday Night Live can never spend too much time mocking IMHO, and that's the several hour long debacle that manages to make even the rest of cable "news" look good by comparison, Fox & Friends. Their cold open began with the group opining over President Obama calling NBA player Jason Collins, who just came out, a hero -- and if you are unfortunate enough to actually watch any of Fox's programming, it's sadly not too far off from the carping from the talking heads on that network.

They then moved onto whether New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg might have any luck with pushing for more gun control regulation and whether everyone in the country is ready to listen to a "northeastern Jewish billionaire" on the topic -- and they had the crew mocking him for his attempted large soda ban.

There's enough material on Fox every day that Saturday Night Live could make an entire hour out of all of their programming and not just mocking Fox & Friends. For that matter, if anyone wanted to devote an entire network to mocking them -- they would never run out of material as well. There are so many things wrong with the crap that network pumps out on a daily basis that the list is endless.

Sadly, that would mean subjecting someone to watching them 24/7 first to come up with the material, and I wouldn't wish that punishment on anyone.

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Saturday Night Live took a shot at President Obama and the Senate and whether there's going to be any meaningful gun control legislation passed any time soon. Sadly, their parody wasn't that far from reality on whether we're going to see anything will make a real difference make its way through this Congress controlled by the NRA any time soon.

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Saturday Night Live opened their show with a powerful and heartbreaking tribute to the recent massacre at a Connecticut elementary school. Instead of going for laughs in their cold open, The New York City Children's Chorus performed "Silent Night."

"Silent night, holy night / All is calm, all is bright / Round yon Virgin Mother and Child / Holy Infant so tender and mild."

"Sleep in heavenly peace / Sleep in heavenly peace."

(h/t: DeadSpin)

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Saturday Night Live opened this weekend's show with Jay Pharoah returning as President Barack Obama, holding a mock press conference with Bill Hader as House Speaker John Boehner. After finding out how terribly the Speaker was being abused by his own party, SNL's Obama took pity on him and agreed to give him everything he wanted on the so-called "fiscal cliff" negotiations.

Let's just hope that any of this parody doesn't end up coming close to where this talk of a "grand bargain" ends up in real life.

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Saturday Night Live had a bit of fun in the wake of Hurricane Sandy with Donald Trump and his continued racist offers for President Obama to release collage and passport records and with the crew over at Fox & Friends for being some of the stupidest pundits on the face of the earth.

I do love the list of corrections that SNL has been showing at the end of these skits. If only the real viewers at Fox could be so fortunate.

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Jason Sudeikis and Jay Pharoah were back as Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama for round two of the presidential debates in the opening of this week's Saturday Night Live. SNL's version of the debate was a bit more contentious than the real one to say the least, and they managed to get a shot in on Willard's son Tagg, who told a radio station last week that he would have liked to take a swing at the President for heaven forbid pointing out that his dad lies like a rug.

They also mocked Romney for wanting to bully moderator Candy Crowley, had some fun with the so-called "undecided voters" from Long Island and their questions and Tom Hanks made a cameo appearance with a one word question for the candidates.

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SNL opened up their show with, what else, but a spoof of the vice presidential debate from this week-- with Jason Sudekis (Biden) squaring off against Taran Killam (Ryan), complete with all the snarky facial expressions, constant laughing by Biden, lots of water gulping by Ryan and a moderator, Kate McKinnon (Raddatz) who wasn't going to put up with the same treatment Jim Lehrer received during the first presidential debate.

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The producers at Saturday Night Live think they figured out why President Obama had such a hard time during the first presidential debate. He forgot his anniversary and Al Gore was right, and the altitude was getting to him.

My own theory is still that the sheer number of lies told by Romney that contradicted things Willard had just said the day or week before had him vapor locked as how to respond, combined with some bad campaign advice that it was better to let rMoney walk all over him rather than having the viewers, heaven forbid, think he's coming across as "the angry black man."

Let's just hope the Barack Obama we saw out campaigning a day after that debate shows up for the next one.

I know President Obama is capable of talking off the cuff and pushing back at Republican bull-pucky because we've seen him be really good at it before, like when he appeared before the House Republicans and made mincemeat of them. I'm hoping that's who shows up for round two.

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It seems Saturday Night Live decided to take a page out of Bill Maher's playbook and take a few shots at the still undecided voters out there.

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Saturday Night Live had a special Thursday night political edition. They opened with this segment spoofing Fox's incredibly lame Fox & Friends. That part was as usual just ok, and it's probably already impossible to make that show more inane than it already it is. The parts spoofing the out-of-touch, rich guy Mitt Romney though are getting a lot rougher than we've seen from SNL. Gone is goofy Mitt, replaced by nasty sociopath plutocrat Mitt. This in my estimation is a good thing.

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