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    He ridiculed complaints that because he is not African American he's unqualified to mock Obama. "I grew up on a hippie commune, and things were pretty loose there. My dad told me we don't really know who my mother is, so she can be one of many races." SNL chief Lorne Michaels said the difficulty doing Obama was just that he wasn't well-known enough: "Sooner or later, everyone does something to irritate us." Full Article at Philly.com
    I grew up on a hippie commune, and things were pretty loose there. My dad told me we don't really know who my mother is, so she can be one of many races.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 16 months ago
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Jonathan Storm: Leno has some fun with the NBC execs
  1. Sooner or later, everyone does something to irritate us.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 16 months ago
  2. We have the best, most sophisticated actors that night
    SOURCE: Philly.com 16 months ago
  3. We made a long-term deal with him four years ago ... We can't force him to do something. We're presenting him with a number of opportunities that we think would be great, and that we hope he thinks would be great.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 16 months ago
  4. I'm not particularly looking to do politics, but they always need pretaped segments ... Actually, I'm just going to phone it in this year.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 16 months ago
  5. We've witnessed a lot of transitions at NBC ... We're still talking with Jay about staying within NBC Universal, and we're confidant The Tonight Show will continue to be dominant in its time period.
    Ben Silverman – Ben Silverman SOURCE: Philly.com 16 months ago
  6. When you analyze it, they go way beyond the culture of the medium. I don't know if there's ever been that much talent assembled around one night of television.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 16 months ago
  7. I think I will physically grow more into it. You know, it's something I'm definitely working on, and people have been kind about it, as well.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 16 months ago

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