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‘Piers Morgan’ Delivers The In Depth Super Bowl Halftime Analysis No One Asked For On SNL

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by Sarah Devlin | 11:54 pm, February 11th, 2012

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“I’m Piers Morgan, and do be fooled by my British accent, because it’s all I’ve got!” Taran Killam’s Piers Morgan kicked off his show in fine self-deprecating form. This hour was all about the Superbowl, and he had several guests on to cover the highlights. Nasim Pedrad appeared as M.I.A., still in her halftime costume, to defend her decision to sing with Madonna “while there’s all this injustice in the world” and also to give the finger to the stadium and the audience. While M.I.A. didn’t see anything wrong with this behavior, pop duo LMFAO had a problem with it, as they didn’t think her actions lived up to the Superbowl’s standards of class and sophistication.

Moreover, Morgan had Marjorie Grapple, the one person in the country still offended by the middle finger, on the program to talk about her new decency initiative “One Finger, One Million Moms” (they’re selling decency straps!). This sketch felt a little baggy, but perhaps that was the point? Although Taran Killam’s pre-question ululations — “Wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-wha” — nearly made the too-long sketch worth it.

You can watch it here via NBC:

Piers Morgan, SNL, Taran Killam, Zooey Deschanel

Anonymous

is that zooey deschanel?
Anonymous

Yes.
Anonymous

That’s strange NBC and SNL subtlety mock Christianity and not one word about Obama’s massive attack on religious liberty.

Wonder why Fox News destroys them every week?
Carl Emmoth

Don’t change subject. This has nothing todo with FOX or Obama.
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Religious outrage groups are so funny! “Don’t burn me at the stake bro!”
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Anonymous

Moron Alert.
Anonymous

How would a joke about Obama’s attack on religious liberty? Obama says that birth control pills be mandated, conservatives complain, and both sides compromise so things are as they were before? Sounds like great comedy. You should write for SNL.
Anonymous

Yes FOX news has a bigger audience of fairy tale believers. These are people that truly live to believe the big lies… whether they are spewed on fox news on when they are sitting in the pews. Everyone knows about the the study that has proven straight away that the more conservative you are the prone you are to be racists and less educated. I don’t make this up. Read it for yourself; http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968042,00.html
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That was too funny!! I loved it. Made Piers look like the idiot he is.
Anonymous

If making fun of Piers Morgan is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
Janet Michaels

Ah yes another “low information voter” who apparently buys into the whole “attack on religious liberty” diversion that the GOP is flaming … do think maybe to take attn away from (a) their lack of ideas or (b) their inability to produce a nominee? BTW, why is it that the GOP establishment is backing Romney … do you think the far right/Tea Party agenda is scaring them off re potential results in the general election? : )

Also, Fox News had double the ratings of CNN and MSNBC during the week before Obama was elected. Didn’t mean much did it? You should really be less concerned about their ratings and more concerned about their LIES. You know, like the one that Hannity told about Kevin Jennings … and after he was proven 100% wrong, Fox issued a retraction … on their website : ) Hannity doesn’t have much guts or morality or courage to go along with his ratings does he Coldhands?