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No laughs from guv

The governor was not amused.

Gov. David A. Paterson's office lashed out at an impersonation of him on the final 2008 episode of this season's "Saturday Night Live" that made him into a blind, bumbling, pitchy, wackjob with a drug problem that may (or may not) be classified as a former one.

Paterson's spokesman, Errol Cockfield, released this statement late yesterday: "The Governor...

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