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It's been a long time since one cast member on Saturday Night Live has grabbed almost all the attention focused on the show and Tina Fey technically isn't even a cast member right now. But for the third time in four weeks since the show returned, Fey was front and center in the opening sketch as the doppelganger she seems to refine and heighten a little every week, Sarah Palin.
While Fey will deservedly get most of the praise for the cold opening parody of Thursday's vice presidential debate, her co-stars are rising to the challenge when put alongside Fey's folksy and friendly (and now winking) portrayal of the governor. This week it was Jason Sudekis as forcibly good-natured Joe Biden, showering John McCain with praise as a man he would take a bullet for and noting "the way my face lights up when he enters the room," while simultaneously attempting to take him down as a man who "is bad at his job and mentally unstable." Queen Latifah also got in on the fun, popping in to play moderator Gwen Ifill as being restrained in a tight-lipped role because of her ties to Obama.
Elsewhere in the show, Fred Armisen nailed the cartoonishness of Barney Frank in a sketch about the bailout and Andy Samberg took on Mark Wahlberg telling a goat to "say hi to your mother" in a sketch simply titled "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals."
Up next for SNL is the first of their live prime time election specials this Thursday night. The commercials for that are now sure to include Fey's line of the night in response to a question about gay marriage: "I believe marriage is meant to be a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers."
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are those really fey's ear? damn, big 'uns
all three impersonations were great. especially latifa's doubletakes--very well done.
I thought her bit with the flute was very funny.
the mark walhberg shit was dead on.
:| ^
so yeh...funny stuff last night.
Oh, that was awesome and made my afternoon.
Maverick...I just had to say it.
Iceman...that too.
HYPOCRITES, PLEASE VOTE FOR:
OBAMA OR McCAIN !!!
BOTH VOTED FOR THE PORK-LINED CORPORATION(S) BAILOUT!
THOSE WHO OPPOSE THIS CORPORATE BAILOUT, PLEASE MAKE YOUR VOTE HEARD ON NOV.4th BY SUPPORTING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TWO PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES:
RON PAUL or RALPH NADER
NEITHER VOTED FOR THIS CORPORATE BAILOUT / EESA / TARP
http://www.ronpaul.com/2008-10-03/ron-pauls-statement-on-the-passage-of-the-bailout-bill/
It's ironic that the Democrats, who actually want to improve the lives of the middle class and working class, are looked upon as "elitist," just because they may have read a book or two in their lives, while the Republicans are thought of as "just folks," because they wave their flags and their bibles, and say "nucular," while they rob you blind by lowering the taxes of the ultra rich while raising your taxes and sending your children to be blown up in an outrageous unnecessary war. Don't be fooled by the folksiness, the "you betchas" and "hecks" and cutesy smiles. They are not on your side. When asked by Katie Couric to name a newspaper she reads, Palin couldn't come up with a single one. She would like to take away women's right to choose, and doesn't believe in sex education. So her daughter got knocked up by a neanderthal, and we're supposed to find that endearing. Working people should remember who it was that organized labor unions. If it had been up to the Republicans, you'd be working for pennies a day. Don't be taken in by flag waving and bible thumping. They're laughing at you all the way to the bank
Tina Fey, certainly not Palin, and not even Hillary (who disgraced herself during her campaign), is good for womankind, and feminism.
I'm very proud of her!
the saddest part of all this is that the Tina Fey impersonation is probably smarter than the real Sarah Palin impersonation. The sadder part of that is that if you watch George W. Bush in his old debates the dude was even stupider than Palin and got voted in twice and he was running for president not vice president.
Funny. Also chilling how close to the truth Fey is.
This is not humor.
Does anyone think Republicans find this funny?! --> No.
This is not even political satire- it's political mockery which only serves to trivialize American Politics. (Tina Fey notes that she gets applause rather than laughs- what does that tell you?)
So who is served by this? Actually no one except Tina Fey and a few other on this now marginalized TV program.
Oh Well...