While Barack Obama cancelled his appearance as Mega-Celebrity host of Saturday Night Live last night, they did deliver Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton for the opening skit. Yes, it’s Tina Fey as Sarah and some other chick as Hillary, and yes, the moonbats at SNL obviously prefer Hillary and there are gags at Sarah’s expense, but it is very funny. Get used to this because Fey is good as Sarah and, well, when McCuda wins there will be four years of material.
The You Tube version is already down after complaints from NBC so here is the segment from the NBC site itself. Yes, it’s okay to laugh. I did. Then I felt a little guilty but only a little.
In the meantime, the review are in the for the new season of SNL and let’s just say the USA Today review says it all.
Has the Palin camp seen it? Possibly. The CSM has a roundup of media response, and the howls fromt he press corp attached to the Sarah campaign.
Yes, it’s condescending, but Tina Fey absolutely NAILS Sarah Palin’s mannerisms and Amy Poehler as Hillary was always perfect in projecting self-important Machiavellianism.
And the line about “your Tina Fey glasses”? Brilliant.
“…and I can see Russia from my house.”
I am sooooo stealing this!
Yes, have to admit I laughed as well. It was more subtle than usual, which made it funnier.
I don’t think there’s a thing to be guilty about. Every major politician gets impersonated on SNL, and this was well done. And funny!
The one thing I love about SNL is that their writers (and Tina Fey) were so obviously pro-Hillary and not happy when BO snatched it out from under her. They’ve done some great skits on Obama and really nailed him. I’m surprised the Daily Kooks didn’t complain.
I thought it was absolutely hilarious (minus the liberal tripe)! My jaw literally dropped when Fey started — it’s as good an imitation as I have ever seen. Poehler was a riot, too. J
Maybe it’s me, but I didn’t think Fey nailed Palin’s voice. It sounded more like someone from Wisconsin than the way Palin sounds. (And nothing against anyone from Wisconsin, by the way.) There were some funny lines, but on the whole it was…disappointing. Just like most of what passes for comedy on SNL these days.
This was way funny! Fey is a great Palin – great work on her part!
Maybe in a future segment, they can bring back Jane Curtin as Geraldine Ferraro to meet up w/ Fey’s Palin & Poehler’s Clinton.
Sarah Palin once dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween.
She does not nail SP’s voice at all – that is a Minnesotan accent IMO. SNL is so not funny it is unwatchable.
Do you think that liberals really think that this makes Palin look *bad*?
I’m still smiling!
:-D
I hadn’t watched Saturday Night Live for uears, but I did want to see Michael Phelps. I only laughed in two skits, the Palin/Clinton get-together and the last one, the Michael Phelps Diet. Everything else was “What the heck?” The Terrible Swim Team had a good premise, but then the coach played a song tape and jumped around. Huh? The Freaky Children skit was Duh? The Waiter Who Wouldn’t Waiter skit was missing a point. If anything got a chuckle it was Michael Phelps flubbing a line or two.
My whole family saw it and we absolutely cracked up through the whole thing. Tina Fey was amazing. We couldn’t believe how much she sounded like her. I didn’t feel bad at all about laughing–the play of contraries between Palin and Hillary was fantastic.
I’m sure if Palin sees it she will laugh too, because she is a normal well-rounded human being.
At best it was mildly amusing. After two painfully unfunny skits I switched over to TV Food Network to watch “Iron Chef”. It was “Battle Snails”. So ‘eww’, yet so much more watchable.
I noticed Sarah’s accent right off, and wouldn’t be surprised if it’s native Alaskan.
Tina Fey’s poses while “Hillary” is ranting were a hoot, especially the hand flourish at the end.
“…and I can see Russia from my house.”
That means Russia is in range of her hunting rifle. I guess Palin is Alaska’s missile defense shield :-)