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"As the world said goodbye to former South African president Nelson Mandela at the Dec. 9 memorial service, attention turned to the sign language interpreter, who was incoherently signing at the event next to some of the world&amp;apos;s top leaders including President Barack Obama. So to open its Dec. 14 episode, Saturday Night Live chose to spoof the incident along with some of Obama&amp;apos;s other criticisms from the event using comedian Jay Pharaoh to play the nation&amp;apos;s leader.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I felt like Lemony Snicket, because I experienced a series of unfortunate events,&amp;quot; Pharoah as Obama joked.&amp;#xA0;\r\nAfter a photo was snapped of the president taking a selfie with other top political leaders as wife Michelle Obama looked on with a perturbed expression, many questioned if the First Lady was upset with her husband&amp;apos;s behavior.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Some people said Michelle was angry at me for that, but I talked to her afterwards and I can assure you, she was furious,&amp;quot; Pharoah continued.&amp;#xA0;\r\nAs he tried to transition into talk of health care,&amp;#xA0;Kenan Thompson&amp;#xA0;appeared behind Pharoah, impersonating the now-notorious sign language interpreter. Later a jealous German ChancellorAngela Merkel&amp;#xA0;(played by&amp;#xA0;Kate McKinnon) begged Obama to take a selfie with her before being dragged off the stage saying, &amp;quot;I will always love you!&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nTell&amp;#xA0;Us: Did you think the sketch was funny?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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