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Wood, 45, will host the quiz show-style format as a forum for comics, pundits and media personalities to satirize the issues of the day.

The program uses a quiz show-style format as a forum for comics, pundits and media personalities to satirize the issues of the day.

This week’s “S.N.L.” broadcast, which was hosted by Maya Rudolph and featured the musical guest Vampire Weekend, used the occasion of Mother’s Day to take a break from opening sketches that satirize current events, much to the disappointment of Kenan Thompson’s mother.

“Family Guy” began as the brainchild of Seth MacFarlane, now 50, who imbued the show with its pop-cultural bona fides, iconic musical numbers and a desire to satirize every social convention that Americans hold sacred.

The fourth deals with a witch, giving them a chance to satirize conspiracy theorists.