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"  Photo: Getty Images Say goodbye to Arianna Huffington on &amp;quot;Weekend Update.&amp;quot; Saturday Night Live standout Nasim Pedrad is reportedly bidding the show farewell after five seasons.  Pedrad is likely leaving the show to focus on her role in the new Fox sitcom Mulaney, starring former SNL writer John Mulaney. News of her departure comes as the show is reportedly firing freshman cast members Brooks Wheelan, John Milhiser, and No\u00EBl Wells.  The show will be missing a lot without Pedrad&amp;#039;s quick wit, wacky humor, and spot-on impressions. Watch four stellar sketches from Pedrad, below. Kim Kardashian Kim Kardashian is an easy target for actors and late-night talk shows alike. But in a series of recurring sketches, both featuring her sisters and her now-husband Kanye West, Pedrad takes it to another level. In several morning-talk sketches, she provides a perfect foil to Jay Pharaoh&amp;#039;s bombastic West, who inflates her every hobby into a work of art. This sketch features Lady Gaga, whose Apple Store worker faces off against &amp;quot;the Michael Jordan of wearing clothes.&amp;quot;      Arianna Huffington Pedrad transforms the media mogul into a savvy cougar with an eye on Weekend Update&amp;#039;s Seth Meyers, dropping lines like &amp;quot;my little babaganoush,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;the cabana boy I never had.&amp;quot; But while skewering Huffington, Pedrad also speaks some serious truth. In this segment, she tackles birth control \u2013 &amp;quot;If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like a Starbucks\u2026and the morning after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch!&amp;quot; Lil&amp;#039; Blaster In a spot-on parody of the Insane Clown Posse&amp;#039;s Gathering of the Juggalos, Pedrad joins Jason Sudeikis&amp;#039; D.J. Supersoak to promote the Kickspit Underground Rock Festival. Lil&amp;#039; Blaster was a refreshing change from Pedrad&amp;#039;s usually put-together characters. Heshy Pedrad&amp;#039;s original characters didn&amp;#039;t see as much screen time as her celebrity impressions, but they showed real promise. Meet Heshy, an insanely confident middle-aged immigrant from Yemen who can teach us all a thing or two about surviving bad days. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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