SNL David Paterson VIDEO: Did SNL Skit On Blind Gov. Paterson Go Too Far ?

Governor David Paterson didn’t find the Saturday Night Live skit poking fun of his blindness very funny at all!  The SNL skit on Paterson also angered the National Federation for the Blind. See the Paterson SNL skit video below.

The skit had “SNL” cast member Fred Armisen doing an awesome but tad over the line impression of the blind governor during the show’s “Weekend Update” segment. In the skit, Seth Myers had to help him turn his chair to face the cameras. Armisen’s Paterson later returned to wander in front of the camera during Amy Poehlers’ farewell from the show.

“I can take a joke,” Paterson told the Daily News on Sunday. “But only 37% of disabled people are working, and I’m afraid that that kind of third-grade humor certainly adds to this atmosphere.”

In the skit about the governor’s choice of a replacement for Sen. Hillary Clinton, Armisen’s Paterson pointed out that he became governor after Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution scandal.

“Whoever is appointed senator must — like me — be caught totally off guard and be comically unprepared to take office,” he said. “Come on, I’m a blind man who loves cocaine who was suddenly appointed governor of New York. My life is an actual plot from a Richard Pryor movie.”

A spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind also found the “SNL” skit to cross the line.

“The biggest problem faced by blind people is not blindness itself, but the stereotypes held by the general public,” spokesman Chris Danielson said. “The idea that blind people are incapable of the simplest tasks and are perpetually disoriented and befuddled is absolutely wrong.”

Paterson’s spokesman Errol Cockfield, Jr  said “the governor is sure that ‘Saturday Night Live,’ with all of its talent, can find a way to be funny without being offensive.”

NBC has declined to comment on the show’s skit of Gov. Paterson.

View the SNL Fred Armisen Gov Paterson video:

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