Last weekend, Saturday Night Live did another skit poking fun at embattled New York Governor David Paterson and his blindness, and once again, the politician was not amused.
Cast member Fred Armisen played the governor as a confused and clumsy New Jersey hater with a penchant for staring away from the camera as Charles Barkley hosted the first episode of SNL of the decade. Gov. Paterson says he “can take a joke” about his blindness, but contends SNL is going too far.
“By the way, I don’t bounce off walls and if anyone from ‘Saturday Night Live’ would like to have me on, maybe I can bounce a few left hands off of them,” Paterson told Don Imus during an interview on “Imus in the Morning” this week.
He noted that about 70 percent of blind people are unemployed, and that jokes like the one on SNL perpetuate a negative stereotype.