Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live again to spoof Sarah Palin and Thursday’s VP debate:
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s starting to feel like Tina Fey is running for vice president.
Fey again returned to “Saturday Night Live” to play Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as the sketch comedy show continued to pull out all the stops in its election year season. Queen Latifah dropped by to portray Thursday’s debate moderator, PBS’s Gwen Ifill, and cast member Jason Sudeikis stepped into the role of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The “SNL” take on the week’s political events has become a dependable part of the news cycle this fall, offering near-immediate parodies of the presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, and their running mates. The show — particularly the opening sketches — have resonated with higher ratings for the NBC program and increased traffic on its Web site where early-to-bed viewers catch the talked-about sketches in the days after.
Saturday night’s opening sketch of the VP debate appeared likely to garner similar buzz thanks to Fey’s popular Palin impression. Winking and giving answers not always directly related to Queen Latifah’s questions, Fey’s Palin said that if she was elected, her decisions would be guided by considering “what would a maverick do?”
The video embed seems to be messing up the site when viewed in Firefox, so I’ll embed it when it’s fixed.
In the meantime you can view it here.
Update: The embed from Hulu seems to be working much better than the one from NBC, so here it is:
October 5th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
oh hooray. Like i care to hear more political BS.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I don’t even watch this show but if you had something else to offer other than bias politics, I would consider watching SNL. Don’t push down my throat Politics, Politics, Saturday after Saturday. Be more creative and diversify.
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October 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
[...] addition to yet another Sarah Palin skit, last weekend’s Saturday Night Live also took on the recently passed bailout [...]
October 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
the GOP wouldn’t dare schedule any more unscripted air time for Palin, this would give people more time to realize that she’s totally clueless… the prospect of her becoming the Commander in Chief is frightening