Posted on 04/11/2010 1:06:46 PM PDT by traumer
Tina Fey reprised her impression of Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live" while hosting the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday night. It was Fey's first performance as the former Alaska governor since her iconic impressions during the 2008 presidential campaign when Palin was the Republican vice presidential candidate.
Fey appeared as Palin in a sketch introducing a mock "Sarah Palin Network," satirizing Palin's entry into media. Palin recently launched the program "Real American Stories" on Fox News Channel and will soon begin production on "Sarah Palin's Alaska," an eight-part series for TLC.
Appearing as Palin in a leather jacket with an American flag pin, Fey introduced a lineup of shows like "Tea Party Wheel of Fortune" (the puzzle read "Obamar is a terrist"), "Are You Smarter than a Half-Term Governor?" and "30 Main Street," a parody of her own "30 Rock."
Other fake shows included "Hey Journalist, I Gotcha," in which Palin re-edited interviews to make it look like her interviewers - like CBS' Katie Couric - were "woefully unprepared." Also touted was a spinoff starring husband Todd Palin (played on "SNL" by cast member Jason Sudeikis) as a renegade police officer transferred from Alaska to New York.
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Just came back from the Huffington post (yes I took a shower after)
-Wow, Zombies hopped up on Provigil reading, analyzing and memorizing every word attributed to Sarah (yup, mostly made up stuff) so they can post incredible vitriolic anti-Palin screeds.
-Truly remarkable
Kind of weak, not fun.
They do this on purpose and they invest a lot of money into it if the need to, bringing Tina Fey back cannot be cheap.
CNN) — Chevy Chase didn’t look like Gerald Ford and didn’t sound like Gerald Ford. But in the mid-1970s, when “Saturday Night Live” first went on the air, Chase — then a writer and cast member of the show — made his impression of the president, rife with pratfalls and slapstick, the talk of the country.
He also made the president a butt of jokes, which was intentional, Chase told CNN in an interview.
“[Ford] was a sweet man, a terrific man — [we] became good friends after, but ... he just tripped over things a lot,” he said. “It’s not that I can imitate him so much that I can do a lot of physical comedy and I just made it, I just went after him. And ... obviously my leanings were Democratic and I wanted [Jimmy] Carter in and I wanted [Ford] out, and I figured look, we’re reaching millions of people every weekend, why not do it.”
Over the years, “Saturday Night Live’s” political satires have become a mainstay of the show, sometimes to startling effect.
Al Franken — now the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota — and his then writing partner, Tom Davis, wrote a wicked takeoff of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s book, “The Final Days,” which included Dan Aykroyd as a bitter Richard Nixon and John Belushi as a toadying Henry Kissinger. In the mid-’80s, a sketch starring Phil Hartman as Ronald Reagan showed the president, often lampooned as forgetful, with a razor-sharp command of the Iran-Contra situation, cutting deals in Arabic and barking orders at his staff.
More recently, Dana Carvey’s malaprop-laden impression of George H.W. Bush, Hartman’s puppy-dog Bill Clinton, Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush and Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin have embedded themselves in the culture.
Though Chase believes the show leans left, and Fey’s Palin is an attempt to hurt the Republicans, Marc Liepis, NBC Universal senior director of late night publicity, had no comment.
CNN: You mean to tell me in the back of your mind you were thinking, hey I want Carter ...
Chase: Oh, yeah.
CNN: And I’m going to make him look bad.
Chase: Oh yeah. What do you think they’re doing now, you think they’re just doing this because Sarah’s funny? No, I think that the show is very much more Democratic and liberal-oriented, that they are obviously more for Barack Obama. [In the ‘70s], out of the Nixon era, and it was not unlikely that I might go that direction.
CNN: I talked to one political pundit who said, I think Chevy Chase cost Ford the presidency.
Chase: When you have that kind of a venue and power where you can reach so many millions of people and you’ve become a show that people watch, you know, you can affect a lot of people, and humor does it beautifully, because humor is perspective and has a way of making judgment calls. ... So I think there was no question that it had major effect and in fact, in speaking with his family and then later him, and even reading some of his books ... he felt so, too.
>analyzing and memorizing every word attributed to Sarah (yup, mostly made up stuff) so they can post incredible vitriolic anti-Palin screeds.>
You don’t have to go to the HuffPo to see that.
It is right here at FR with the PaulBots and their
Insane, Circular arguments and propaganda gainst
Sarah Palin.
“Tina needs to get her ass in shape to imitate Palin. “
Whoo... saddle bags. She looks like she’s been rode hard and put up wet.
She is also younger than Palin and has no excuse.
It ain’t workin’ this time.
As far as I know she has had no kids.
It Was so stupid, I mean not even funny a bit.. SNL is just an arm of the Obumble Administration.
That is a whole lot of opinion right there. I have voted for Palin more times than 99% of Freepers have, and I don't think she will be president. She is to polarizing, to marginalized, and not enough of a statesemen. I have never even heard of Paul until last year and he has only cemented himself as some crazy uncle kook, so I respectfully disagree with your threory.
Have researched Neo Leftist Paul and his supporters for years.
Have followed politics seriously for several decades.
I worked for Reagan when he first ran for Gov.
"And... obviously my leanings were Democratic and I wanted (Jimmy) Carter in and I wanted (Ford) out, and I figured look, we're reaching millions of people every weekend, why not do it."
On a little checking with old friend Wikipedia I learned that on the 1989 Pat Sajek show, this man Chevy Chase claimed that he "convinced the draft board by falsely claiming he had homosexual tendencies, among other things". He was graded 4F I believe. This is pure Saul Alinsky and maybe it is still working. Chase is a likely disciple.
I believe that the very existence of a Sarah Palin grinds on these women. To bring everyone down to their likely degenerate mentality, is a sort of justification for their own life style. Every woman a Joy Behar and then there can be no adverse comparisons. Sarah galls them no end, because she is Sarah.
Well, it is a very truthful statement that Sarah Palin is better looking than Tina Fey.
Sarah Palin is really really good looking. Perhaps the best looking top level female politician anywhere ever.
But the SNL sketch was funny. Tina Fey is on a hit TV show, in a hit movie. Sometimes comedy attacks on Republicans are lame and suck, sometimes they’re funny. Tina is funny.
If Sarah Palin hated it that much, she wouldn’t have gone on SNL.
An indication that they’re petrified. And a tacit admission that their previous onslaught was for naught.
Imagine laughing at this stuff for the next 2 years.....!
Then imagine a root canal without anesthetic
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