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Why Is 'SNL' Hellbent On Making Every Band Sound Like A Special-Needs Orchestra?
In our critical treatise of last October, "Coldplay's 'SNL' Freak-Out: Easy-Listening Performance Art, Awful, Or Both?" we remarked upon not just Chris Martin's spastic stage presence, but on the ungodly music itself: More »
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By SethComment by icallthebigonebitey: Well, no one's mentioned it yet, so I'll go ahead and be the first to offer the sacrilege: they just... 3 Responses | Other threads
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regrets
Fake 'SNL' Apology Regrets Depicting Blind NY Governor As an Idiot
A statement sent to Defamer purports to offer an apology from Lorne Michaels, who regrets equating NY governor David Paterson's blindness to garden-variety retardation last week on SNL. But wait, says NBC: He's not sorry!
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By STVComment by ClickClickThud: Why are they apologizing? It's not like Paterson watched the show. (He was too busy screwing around on his wife.) more » | Other threads
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snl
Obama Vs. Boy George: A Study In Fred Armisen-Impression Contrasts
This weekend's John Malkovich-hosted SNL featured a great many virable moments, if you'll indulge us the coinage of an incredibly annoying e-jective (make that two incredibly annoying coinages), but we'll set aside the toe-tapping pleasures of interslack ejaculation for a moment to focus instead on the work of Fred Armisen. Always a strong SNL soldier, Armisen's star has dimmed of late for what has been deemed a substandard Obama impression—indeed, by Obama himself. More »
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By SethComment by Dimo: Armisen sells me on it completely with "But I didn't." ... That's when I jizzed in my pants. 1 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
En Vivo! Desde Madrid! Es Sábado en la Noche!
· A Spanish version of SNL will premiere early in 2009, but not necessarily on a Saturday night. Fernando Jerez, programming director of Cuatro, said in a statement the sketch show is "going to be pretty much like the original version" and that the network "couldn't be more excited to host its first token Negro." [Variety]
· Barbara Walters's 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008 lifted ABC to a Thursday win. We were sure she was going to pick Obama for the top spot, but she threw everyone a curveball and chose a certain courageous and tenacious woman from the campaign trail instead. We couldn't agree more. [Variety]
· Joseph Fiennes and John Cho are close to starring in ABC's new Lost companion series Flash Forward, the tale of a worldwide two-minute blackout caused by watching ABC's last, snore-inducing Lost companion series, Life on Mars. [THR] More »
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By SethComment by Nomi Malone: *gasp!* the stevie nicks fajita round-up! "rock on, beef tostada..." 2 Responses | Other threads
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snl
Seth Meyers's Gay 'SNL' Damage Control Interview
Last week's SNL had no less than eight sketches featuring gay themes or gay content. The comedy in these sketches, without exception, derived from one of three premises: 1. Men kissing or otherwise enjoying each other's bodies. 2. Men acting effeminately. 3. Men describing the sex they've had with other men. And then there was that part where Seth Meyers silenced the anti-Prop 8 audience by telling then, "OK. Vote's over." All this led us to describe the proceedings as a gay minstrel show. More »
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By SethComment by TimGunn: There is something unlikeable about Seth Miers. 7 Responses | Other threads
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snl
SNL's Gay Minstrel Show
Where do you mine for easy laughs when you no longer have the most satirizable election in history at your disposal? In SNL's case, that would be the Gays, a topic this week's Paul Rudd-hosted episode visited and revisited so often, we lost count. And where does the show stand on the subject, in this, arguably the most important week for gay civil rights in history? Enjoy the highlight reel above, accompanied by this handy synopsis: More »
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By SethComment by DarkKnightShyamalan: And the minstrel show comparison isn't even quite accurate, since those were about black people parodying themselves for the benefit... 16 Responses | Other threads
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tina fey
Tina Fey Suggests That Defamer Has Some Issues
Few things made us laugh harder than Tina Fey's devastatingly precise Sarah Palin send-ups on Saturday Night Live this season (or the fact that the quote that will be attributed to the candidate for all time, "I can see Russia from my house," was said not by Palin but by Fey). Still, as the hardest working woman in comedy was repeatedly spirited away from her 30 Rock duties, we grew worried for her — after all, she has a show, a kid, a book, an Emmy, an upcoming Steve Carell romcom... couldn't Lorne Michaels let the woman rest? We voiced our concerns after the SNL sketch where Fey appeared with the actual John McCain (her sixth appearance on the show this season), and now Fey is telling EW that she took our words to heart: More »
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Comment by satyricrash: Few things made us laugh harder than Sarah Palin's devastatingly precise Sarah Palin send-ups on Saturday Night Live this season HEHNGNN?! 1 Responses | Other threads
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saturday night live
Estrogen Deficient 'SNL' Adds Two More Women to Its Cast
Though MADtv was canceled today, elder sketch comedy statesman Saturday Night Live is still flying high — so high, in fact, that they've finally gotten around to addressing that whole "lack of women" thing! Season breakout Tina Fey wasn't actually a cast member this year (and won't be stopping by anymore), while utility player Amy Poehler is on Archibald-assisted leave, bound for Office-related parts unknown. So what two Los Angelenos has Lorne Michaels brought on to take some of the weight off Kristen Wiig and Casey Wilson? More »
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Comment by sicem: Great choice SNL! A girl who can do a Kirsten Dunst impersonation! That will come in handy once every two... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Defamer Exclusive: 'MADtv' Canceled
Though the high-profile political season has gifted Saturday Night Live with some killer ratings, it apparently hasn't floated all sketch comedy boats. Rumors started circulating today that Fox's MADtv was canceled in the middle of its fourteenth season, so Defamer checked in with one of our operatives to get the scoop: More »
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defamer debunker
Kristen Wiig's Steamy Night With Joe The Plumber An Internet Hoax!
An internet report from a self-proclaimed "McCain strategist" claiming Joe the Plumber got busy with Kristin Wiig following the SNL afterparty—and also discussed becoming the next Bachelor with Ben Affleck's agent, Patrick "Something"—is now looking more and more to be a hoax, hoisted upon a gullible and Wiig-hungry gossip nation. The report came from a man calling himself Martin Eisenstadt—the proprietor of his very own, very-hard-to-come-by website bearing that name—and was picked up by the likes of Slate before internet skeptics and lovers of Sue the Surprise-Loving Lady alike started poking holes in the story: More » -
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Sherri Shepherd Ponders Why 'SNL' Is Not Ready For Black Comediennes
Compared to its Tina Fey-scripted, Debbie Matenopolous-spoofing skits of yore, Saturday Night Live's parody of The View this week felt awfully underpopulated. On today's actual episode of the daytime chat show, the ladies speculated as to why SNL left out two-fifths of the show's hosts, leading Sherri Shepherd to conclude, "I think they ran out of blacks!" More »
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Comment by taco-flavored-kisses: Who insists on following and posting 'View' discussions day in and day out. There must be some better pop... 1 Responses | Other threads
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saturday night live
Your Newest 'View' Hot Topic: Kristen Wiig as Elisabeth Hasselbeck
The moment we knew we'd plunged too far down the Barbara Walters-moderated rabbit hole that is The View came last night, and it came during Saturday Night Live. Our initial reaction to the show's View spoof was not, "Oh, Kristen Wiig's playing Elisabeth Hasselbeck!" or even, "Casey Wilson couldn't do an impression of a single View co-host?" No, instead our visceral first take was, "Elisabeth would never wear that color yellow!" In this case, the shame is spread all around: a healthy helping goes to the SNL costume designers who forsook the chance to design the wildest pirate shirt ever, and we'll claim the rest for ourselves. Click through for the clip. More »
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tina fey
John McCain Welcomed to 'SNL' By Tina Fey, Boos
Though both Barack Obama and John McCain were rumored to be planning appearances on last night's episode of Saturday Night Live, only McCain showed up in the end, and the two sketches he appeared in repped a decidedly mixed bag. More » -
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Casey Wilson Needs To Step It Up
Now that Amy Poehler has had her baby and is gone from Saturday Night Live for good, the show is down to two lone ladies. There's Kristen Wiig, the brilliant if overworked performer behind the Target Lady and the wonderful Suze Orman impression, and then... well, then there's Casey Wilson. Poor Ms. Wilson has been given little to do since debuting on the show last season. Is she not making friends with the writers? Is she just not that funny? I mean, there have been some bright spots. More » -
tina fey
Sarah Palin's Attempt to Abscond with Tina Fey's Child Ends in Disgrace
With less than a week to go before the presidential election, all of America is waiting, pondering the same pressing question: will the fate of Sarah Palin be wrapped up in a final, valedictory Tina Fey performance or will Kristen Wiig have to start practicing her "You betchas!" for the next four years? Until that day comes (and until 30 Rock has its TV premiere), Fey is milking her impression for all its worth, and last night, she talked to Conan O'Brien about what happened behind the scenes of her run-in with the actual Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. More » -
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'SNL' Prepares For Future Sans Brand-New Baby Mama Amy Poehler
While it is a joyous event that comedians Amy Poehler and Will Arnett delivered their first child, Archibald, over the weekend, we recognize that this development has some downsides, too (though perhaps not the ones implied by the above "circle of child life and death" feature that is currently gracing the front page of Yahoo!). For starters, this marks Poehler's end on Saturday Night Live, as the new mother will be segueing to her still-untitled NBC sitcom after some well-deserved maternity leave. Just as devastating: Poehler's unplanned absence from this week's live taping of SNL forced the audience to sit through a third, hastily scheduled Coldplay performance. Still, at least Poehler ducked out before she had to take part in the painful Barack Obama skit that Lorne Michaels pointlessly lured Maya Rudolph back for. Take a look, after the jump: More »
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saturday night live
Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, And An Emboldened HuffPo Blogger Enliven Thursday 'SNL'
Returning alumni Will Ferrell (as George W. Bush) and Tina Fey turned last night's Thursday edition of Saturday Night Live into a veritable class reunion, but one other notable name returned behind the scenes: Ferrell's frequent collaborator Adam McKay. Little over a month ago, McKay (Step Brothers, Anchorman) lit up the left with a sky-is-falling Huffington Post blog entitled "We're Gonna Frickin' Lose This Thing," but to judge from the opening sketch he co-wrote, he now finds the Republican ticket about as threatening as a Jackie Mason PSA. The clip, after the jump: More » -
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To Barack Obama, Fred Armisen Is No Tina Fey
This could make that planned Nov. 1 appearance on SNL a little awkward: during an interview with a D.C. news station, Barack Obama was prompted by some "gotcha journalism" to dis his Saturday Night Live portrayer, Fred Armisen. "Are you disappointed at all that the person who parodies you on Saturday Night Live just isn't very funny?" said the interviewer, asking the late-night comedy version of "So when did you stop beating your wife?" A trapped Obama then conceded that Armisen's interpretation was definitely a run or two below its high Tina Fey watermark. Clearly, Obama is in the tank for 30 Rock. [WUSA9.com] -
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Are Democrats Better at Political Satire Than Republicans?
With the Sarah Palin-skewering SNL ascendant and the Republican-helmed satire An American Carol flailing at the box office (because of those pro-immigration chihuahuas), Boston Globe writer Lisa Wangsness has a provocative point to make: that events like these illustrate "the extent to which comedy has become a liberal genre in America." If you take the success of left-leaning satires like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and couple it with the mileage wrung from the McCain/Letterman War of '08, does it augur a bold new era of Democratic ha-has? More » -
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Doggone It: Though he once compared Sarah Palin to George W. Bush, Alec Baldwin aided her cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend, and the blowback he got for the guest spot has him stymied. "Don't put her on SNL? With all of her exposure and the Tina Fey performance? What reality are you in?" he says on the Huffington Post. "If you think an appearance on Saturday Night Live would sway voters and actually affect the outcome of the election, you may have more contempt for the electorate of this country than the Republican National Committee does. And that's a lot of contempt." Still, we must admit to some surprise that the outspoken, anti-Palin actor was able to bury the hatchet for SNL; what's next, an olive-branch cameo on My Name is Earl? [HuffPo] -
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How big was Saturday Night Live's Sarah Palin cameo? This big: the show scored a 10.7 rating and 24 share, its highest rating in fourteen years. THR's crack ratings expert James Hibberd was quick with the overnights, and in no time, his blog was swarmed by hundreds of gleeful conservatives. "Tina Fey looked liked a drug addict hag next to the natural beauty and class of Sarah Palin!!!" exhorted "zig." Other commenters noted that Fey was probably 50% Egyptian and wants to turn the White House into a pyramid. [THR] -
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Sarah Palin on 'SNL': Not Ready For Prime Time
If the people who comprise the American electorate ever doubted the power of their influence, they need look no further than this season of Saturday Night Live. They wanted Tina Fey as Sarah Palin. Done! So done, in fact, that we don't even have 30 Rock yet! Drunk with their newfound power, every "Joe the Plumber" and "That One" in the U.S. of A. went into last night's episode of SNL demanding two things: a cameo by the real-life Sarah Palin, and a battle royale between Mark Wahlberg and his livestock-friendly impersonator, Andy Samberg. More » -
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Say Hi To Sarah Palin For Us, OK? Just as predicted by a jaded and/or savvy Defamer commenter, Mark Wahlberg's threats against Andy Samberg's nose may in fact be part of an elaborate set-up for the actor's appearance on SNL. Says Usmagazine.com: "A source hints that Wahlberg will appear on SNL this weekend to get his revenge in person." Add that to a confirmed appearance by "Sling Blade" Sarah Palin, and we'll have a real pop culture hall of mirrors tomorrow night. Perhaps all four will be squeezed into one sketch that involves Andy-Mark trying to make conversation with a moose recently felled by Tina-Sarah, a scenario interrupted when their real-life inspirations saunter along to register their disapproval and bust some big, Jewish noses. [Usmagazine.com]
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By SethComment by FaceMelter: I think it became obvious that this was a promo following the initial response from Marky Mark. The sad... more » | Other threads
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celeb feuds
Mark Wahlberg To 'Crack' Andy Samberg's 'Big Fucking Nose'
Having already made it clear that he was less than amused with Andy Samberg's take on him as an amateur goat-whisperer from the mean streets of Mass (an impersonation we've hailed as pure genius—but Marky, if you're reading this, we hated it!), Mark Wahlberg upped the stakes considerably on a Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance last night. More »
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By SethComment by NYYSI: Publicity stunt alert! Guarantee Marky Mark is on SNL tomorrow night. 2 Responses | Other threads
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saturday night live
The Crazy McCain Lady on 'SNL': 'Mmm Ummm Ahhh Hobama?'
Saturday Night Live just aired its second Thursday political special, and it was a marked improvement on last week's middling debut — why, even the presidential debate skit was sort of funny! For our money, though, the extended Weekend Update was the show's crown jewel, and that segment's MVP was Kristen Wiig as the confused Republican who notoriously asserted that Obama was an Arab at a recent rally. Though hilarious enough on its own, Wiig's halting impression also reminded us of Chester from Sifl & Olly, and that's never a bad thing. The entire segment, after the jump: More » -
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Should Sarah Palin Win, 'SNL' Has a Non-Tina Fey Plan B
Tina Fey may be locked in for a few more Sarah Palin impersonations on Saturday Night Live (though if she is, somebody had better tell her), but her cameos come with a strict stop date of November 5, at which point she will either return to 30 Rock full-time or begin a new, exciting life orbiting the rings of Saturn. Fortunately for Fey, a McCain/Palin victory is looking increasingly unlikely, but should the Republican ticket make it into the White House, SNL creator Lorne Michaels has a backup plan: More » -
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Mark Wahlberg Thinks 'SNL' And Their Stupid Impression Of Him Can Suck It
While we found Andy Samberg's SNL impression of Mark Wahlberg as a sort of less-successful Dr. Doolittle overly preoccupied with sending his regards to farm animals' mothers to be flat out hilarious, not everyone was as amused. For starters, there was Wahlberg himself, who was asked about the sketch several times on the Max Payne interview circuit. In the audio clip above, set to a series of modeling shots and film stills by Defamer videographer Molly McAleer, the Robitussin-abusing star of The Happening seems mildy irritated by the caricaturization: More »
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By SethComment by DarkKnightShyamalan: The show Wahlberg does have his name on, Entourage, hasn't exactly been delivering the laughs for a while either. ... 2 Responses | Other threads
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tina fey
Tina Fey Plans Potential Move to Outer Space In Case of Sarah Palin Victory
Though playing Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live has given a huge boost to Tina Fey's already percolating profile, Fey herself is not so keen on the added workload. Already, she has implored the Emmy press room to help vote an end her portrayal on November 5, and now Fey is telling TV Guide that if Palin wins the vice presidency, 30 Rock will have to find brand-new ways to shoot in low-oxygen environments: More » -
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Doggone It: John McCain's plans to appear on Late Show with David Letterman appear to be falling through, but the bottom half of his ticket may have finally firmed up her own late-night gig. According to Cindy Adams, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will definitely be appearing on Saturday Night Live at the end of the month. "She has already OK'd it," Adams says confidently. "She's booked. It's confirmed. Done deal. Sketches are being sketched as we speak." Adams says we can expect Palin to cameo on the Oct. 25 episode and that her rehearsal time has already been penciled in for Friday the 24th. Nor word yet on whether Tina Fey has been booked to appear, but if she's too busy, might we suggest Betty White instead? [New York Post] -
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Here's What Happens When 'SNL' Does a Debate Sketch Without Tina Fey
After weeks of massive ratings and huge buzz derived from its Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin guest appearances, Saturday Night Live extended its political satire into special Thursday episodes beginning last night. So how did the Not Ready for Primetime Players weather the transition to the only NBC timeslot not currently bought up by Barack Obama? More » -
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The Top 8 Women Who Changed the Face of 'SNL'
In honor of Saturday Night Live alum Molly Shannon, whose poorly-received sitcom Kath & Kim premieres tonight on NBC, we thought it was time to pay tribute to the women who've made the biggest mark on SNL over the years. Whether it's Tina Fey, whose profile has surged since her Sarah Palin guest appearances, or an underrated player like Jan Hooks who shines in late-night SNL reruns, we have a soft spot for the women who've succeeded despite being greatly outnumbered in SNL's heavily male cast and writing room. More » -
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Mark Wahlberg Talks To Pharmacists About Cough Syrup
Deep gratitude to Videogum for guiding us to this scene from The Happening—M. Night Shyamalan's surprisingly lucrative eco-thriller, originally pitched to skeptical studio execs as, "A lot like the The Birds, but instead it's The Trees. Well, there's birds in the trees, but they aren't scary. I dunno, maybe they're already dead. Hello? Are you still with me? What are you scribbling on that notepad? Do you want this or not, because there's plenty of studios who do." More » -
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Did 'SNL' Bow To Pressure and Censor This Political Sketch?
This past weekend's episode of Saturday Night Live continues to make news; first, everyone was talking about the Tina Fey-enhanced vice presidential debate sketch, then, praise trickled down to Andy Samberg's Mark Wahlberg imitation and Kristen Wiig's tiny, tiny hands. Over on the right-wing side of the blogosphere, however, the sketch that ignited conservative appreciation was a takeoff on the government bailout (spoofing Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, and Golden West Financial founders Herbert and Marion Sandler) where Jason Sudeikis as President Bush noted, "Wasn't it my administration that warned about the problem six years ago and it was Democrats who refused to listen?" The skit initially appeared on NBC's website but was abruptly yanked yesterday, causing a conservative furor. Now, NBC says a censored version will be reuploaded today. THR has the scoop: More » -
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'SNL' Moves To Next Level With Gimp-Hindered Sister Act And A Donkey-Curious Mark Wahlberg
While much has been made of Tina Fey's return to SNL this season—starring as Sarah Palin in a series of pitch-perfect cold-opens that could well be the only things preventing a frayed America from tumbling off a flat Earth's edge—this week's episode also brought two other hilarious and viral-worthy sketches we thought we'd share. The first involves a Lawrence Welk Show-era sister act with a dark, attic-bound secret, played by Kristen Wiig. The second features Andy Samberg as Max Payne star Mark Wahlberg, in conversation with a variety of farm animals. Look—us explaining it is just delaying the funny. They're both after the jump. More » -
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Does Alec Baldwin Have His Own Sarah Palin Impression? You Betcha
Tina Fey had better watch her back — if she continues with her cutting Sarah Palin impressions on Saturday Night Live, she might find herself fired (or sniped from above thanks to a far-afield Alaskan helicopter). Fortunately, her 30 Rock costar Alec Baldwin will be available to step into the breach: he unveiled his own Sarah Palin impression on Friday's edition of Real Time with Bill Maher. While the vocal mimicry isn't quite up to par with Fey's (or Baldwin's own tour-de-force 30 Rock therapy scene), we have to breathe a sigh of relief that Baldwin didn't call the candidate a "lipsticked, vile little pig." Thank goodness for small favors! [Real Time with Bill Maher via HuffPo] -
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Doggone It, Sarah Palin Wants an 'SNL' Cameo Of Her Own
Appearing in the flesh on Saturday Night Live is a time-honored ritual for many political names, including the three biggest of this past election cycle: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have both put in cold opening cameos, while John McCain actually hosted SNL in 2002. Still, for all the mileage that the show has wrung out of Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy, Palin herself has yet to appear on the show — though according to the Chicago Sun Times, that may change very soon. In fact, sources in the McCain camp say that they have a very specific idea in mind to help Palin avenge herself upon the fired, lifeless body of her nemesis, Tina Fey: More » -
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'SNL' Will Have Its Reward In Heaven After This Sarah Palin Debate Skit
With less than a month left to go in this presidential election, Saturday Night Live expands its resurgent political brand into special Thursday episodes starting this week, though it's hard to see how they could possibly outdo the trilogy of Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin appearances that continued into last night's episode. Spoofing the mega-rated vice presidential debate, Fey joined Jason Sudeikis as Joe Biden and the previously-rumored Queen Latifah as moderator Gwen Ifill for a blockbuster, near-twelve minute sketch that left no participant unscathed. Still, despite the skit's jabs at Biden and Ifill, this was, as ever, Fey's moment, and she delivered her most cutting performance yet. Do we have video of the sketch after the jump? Doggone it, you betcha: More » -
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Clueless French Newspaper MisIdentifies 'Troubled' Tina Fey as Sarah Palin
The Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin phenomenon has officially found its absurdist zenith in France (where else), where the daily paper Le Soleil recently printed a photograph of last week's Palin/Couric SNL sketch to accompany a story about Palin's "hesitant, troubled and clumsy" press-handling skills. The minor controversy that ensued had photo source Agence France-Presse scrambling to defend itself Thursday, insisting it had accurately identified Fey and Amy Poehler in the SNL still and that the caption goof was the paper's fault. But really — does it even matter? More » -
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How 'SNL' Plans to Cover Last Night's Debate (Without Having to Actually Hire a Black Woman)
Though pundits like Time's Mark Halperin are claiming that last night's vice presidential debate left Saturday Night Live little to parody (really?), it's hard to imagine that SNL would leave its ratings on the table by ignoring what was perhaps the most-anticipated Sarah Palin event of the entire election year. Now, according to EW's Michael Ausiello, SNL does indeed plan to cover the debate, which leaves it with one problem: the moderator, Gwen Ifill, was a black woman, and SNL still has none in its cast. It's the same problem the variety show has run into when covering Michelle Obama, and just as rumors flew that Lorne Michaels had approached Maya Rudolph about that role, SNL has its sights set on a very specific Ifill impersonator who's not a member of the actual cast: More » -
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7 Words That Will Help Sarah Palin Tonight: 'Who Am I? Why Am I Here?'
Though Tina Fey's impression of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live has proven to be the ratings gift that keeps on giving, it's another, earlier SNL vice presidential satire that still holds the number-one place in our hearts. In advance of tonight's heavily-anticipated debate we thought we'd revisit that 1992 sketch, which saw Ross Perot (Dana Carvey) put his running mate, Admiral James Stockdale (Phil Hartman), out to pasture — literally. Though Stockdale became infamous for his self-introduction at the vice presidential debate — "Who am I, and why I am here?" — we'd wager that the actual memory has been eclipsed in time by Hartman's booming bark. More »
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