Not surprisingly, Tina Fey is back as Sarah Palin in tonight's SNL. Here's the video:
First report is from the Chicago Sun Times:
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin nails it again on "Saturday Night Live" Debate skit
By
Lynn Sweet
on October 4, 2008 10:41 PM
WASHINGTON--Tina Fey nailed Sarah Palin for a third time in a parody of the vice presidential debate where Queen Latifah played moderator Gwen Ifill.
Ifill was given quit a ribbing in the skit--shown as hawking her upcoming book, which she did not do at the debate--promising not to ask follow up questions in order to "not to appear biased for Barack Obama in light of my new book, "Breakthrough, Politics of Race in the Age of Obama."
Here's the AP's story:
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.
This from Mike Allen's Playbook:
POOL REPORT FROM CIRCA AT DUPONT: The whole restaurant , including waiters, stopped and watched and was dying laughing. It was pretty unbelievable, even for Washington.
For those unable to view video, Mike also has a full transcript of the skit.
And Monacome, The Trail and The Swamp have the full video, with the opening handshake scene, which is missing from the YouTube version. Monacome adds this comment:
Many were unsure if Tina Fey would reprise her role as Sarah Palin for this weekend's Saturday Night Live. After all, she already did two highly successful parodies of the VP candidate and a third one might be too much. Moreover, many are saying that there wasn't much to spoof with Sarah Palin's performance in the 2008 VP debate. She did quite well, better than many expected. Maybe another actress would play Sarah Palin, but not Tina Fey.
Another actress as Palin??? Never!
Even People magazine has a story:
Forget James Garner and Mel Gibson. The new "Maverick" star is Tina Fey.