SNL premiers 38th season this Saturday

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

NBC's Saturday Night Live will premiere its 38th season this Saturday. "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane will host Saturday with Frank Ocean along with John Mayer as the musical guest.

But here is a bit of a surprise. Saturday Night Live's Jay Pharoah In As Obama, Taran Killam To Play Paul Ryan?:

This SNL season premiere will also see cast member Jay
Pharoah taking over Barack Obama duties from Fred Armisen, who has
played the Commander-In-Chief since 2008.

Armisen's Obama has always been even mannered and quite nerdy, and if
you have seen any YouTube clips of Pharoah taking Obama BP, you will
know that his is more boisterous, the Obama we have seen on the campaign
trail this year.

Pharoah's impersonations have always been impeccable and biting, and
long-time fans of the show say that they remind him of Eddie Murphy's
earliest appearances of SNL.

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Jason Sudeikis, who was on the bubble to return to SNL this
season until Wednesday, will be back as Romney. One can't help but that
if Mittens loses in November if Sudeikis will be scarce from then on
around the show.

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[N]ow that Mitt Romney has named his vice presidential running mate, that
position should be filled by cast member Taran Killam, though Bill
Hader's name was also brought up too.

Killam looks like he will make a great Ryan, but I sorta wish that Andy
Samberg was still on board to play the congressman from Wisconsin as the
evil frat-boy that he seems.

They should have plenty of material to catch up on from the summer hiatus.

UPDATE: Samuel L. Jackson is planning to film a new ad for President Obama, the New York Post reports:

Samuel L. Jackson will film a provocative spot supporting President
Obama’s re-election bid as early as tomorrow — telling voters to “Wake
the f–k up, Vote for Obama.”

The ad is a riff on Jackson’s viral video “Go the F–k to Sleep,” where he narrates a children’s book written by Adam Mansbach.

According to the Post, the Jewish Council for Education and Research
Super PAC is paying for the ad which hits YouTube on Sept. 24.