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Press Tour: "Saturday Night Live" faces Obama-mania

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"Saturday Night Live" is gearing up for this fall's historic presidential contest with four straight live shows before election day, three half-hour live shows on the preceding Thursdays and a 90-minute election-eve "Presidential Bash." Whew. And despite some negative press on his performance, Fred Armisen will once again be the show's Barack Obama, even though he's a white guy. Or is he? "I grew up on a hippie commune and things were pretty loose there," Armisen deadpanned when asked about it at press tour on Sunday. "My dad told me we don't really know who my mother is, so she can be one of many races." Of course, a lot of people have been having a hard time satirizing Obama. But "SNL" guru Lorne Michaels thinks there's reason for that beyond the historic nature of his campaign. "I think he's still defining himself, and he is primarily cast as heroic, which is, I think, what he is. But sooner or later, everyone does something to irritate us," Michaels said. "It's still being dealt with very cautiously and very reverently. I think it might stay that way until November, but I have a feeling it won't." I asked "Weekend Update" anchor and head writer Seth Myers (above) about Obama at an NBC party Sunday night, and he had this to say: "Maybe though it's good for America to have somebody running that it's not obvious what's super-funny about them." Someone asked if the "SNL" gang was going to miss the Bush Administration, who offers them so much material. "No," Michael...

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