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People around comedy have been saying "it's gonna happen" for Donald Glover for a long time now. His first job merely months after graduating from NYU was writing for 30 Rock just as it was getting started. Now he's leaving that job to step in front of the camera as a cast member in The Community, a sitcom set at a community college he stars in alongside Joel McHale and Chevy Chase. It's one of two new pilots that have already been picked up by NBC for fall, which means we'll be losing Donald any day now as he makes the leap to Los Angeles.

We wondered if last week SNL's Joe Biden cold opening might be signaling the end of Fred Armisen's tenure as Barack Obama. Now word comes that Lorne Michaels is in fact auditioning four black comedians to take over the role. Speculation is that the four contenders are The Colbert Report's Jordan Carlos, The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac, (recently canceled) MAD TV's Jordan Peele and 30 Rock writer/Derrick Comedy's Donald Glover. There's no word if casting for an ebony comedienne to portray Michelle is likely to follow. But with Armisen out as Barack, that's one less politically incorrect hurdle for the show. As for SNL being called out for their recent "homoverload," the show's guy-on-guy action probably isn't going away any time soon. We realized this upon stumbling upon a famous NY Mag cover story on the show from 1995 where then cast member Janeane Garofalo said, “They love the anal sex here. That’s considered incredibly funny.”