VIDEO: Sarah Palin, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Mark Wahlberg, Oliver Stone And Josh Brolin All On SNL Tonight

COMMENTS (52)

• Hmmm… “Mark Wahlberg Talks to Sarah Palin” perhaps?

  Comment by Brad — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 5:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow. Should be an exciting night.

  Comment by O.J. — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 7:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah, SNL is about as funny as a fart in an elevator.

  Comment by michael dobrofsky — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 8:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Alec Baldwin kicked everyone’s ass!

  Comment by MD — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 8:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Thank the Good Lord for Alec Baldwin. He saved a potential trainwreck from happening. He saved the cold open.

  Comment by Arrested Development/30 Rock Fan — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 8:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• i hated it. those lame SNL whores.
  first– she’s such a big deal that her scene must be with lorne (egomaniac) plus two big stars.
  then– alec baldwin sells out his entire belief system– and that’s actually the joke!
  then- we’re all scared that “the real one” is here we run away and let her — heroically– take the stage to “she’s terrific” applause and finally the “honor” of saying “live from new york…”
  they suck my ass.
  and then, back to our regularly scheduled shit pile of extra terrible comedy.

  Comment by pissed — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 8:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What is Sarah Palin doing paling around with the Hollywood elite? How anti-American of her!

  Comment by Michelle T — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 8:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Interesting how SNL considered part of Hollywood’s Liberal Elite when Sarah Palin needs a bump in the polls.

  Comment by theTVaddict — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 8:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Not an inspired episode of SNL. Then again it’s always awkward when they have any politician on. They didn’t write anything interesting at all for Brolin either.

  Comment by nyguy — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 9:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Funny and everything, but how many men, women and children were butchered in the middle east this month?
  Who owns NBC, anyway? What else do they make?

  Comment by DrWilhelmReichJr — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 10:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I watched and I was laughing myself out of the chair. Especially when Alec Baldwin did his rant and the Gov was in front of him. And Lorne reminded him that she was standing there and he commented,”You’re hotter in person.” And the VP Palin commented to Lorne about Tina’s Palin as being overtop. It was the best.

  Comment by chuck — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 10:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• To fully appreciate the Mark Wahlberg cameo, you’d need to of course seen the Talks To Animal scene from the last ep but also Wahlberg’s Kimmel appearance.

  Should put them up with this clip.

  http://www.cinematical.com/2008/10/18/watch-this-mark-wahlberg-threatens-andy-sambergs-big-f-king-n/

  Comment by Dre — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 10:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Does Mark Wahlberg even vote?

  Comment by RTA — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 10:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Funny, but they clearly pulled their punches.

  Comment by EnsignRedShirt — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 10:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Oh, overall, quite disappointing. Palin is just not a very bright woman if she went alone with this. She totally got P’unked.

  Comment by Anonymous — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 11:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I don’t know, for a show that is supposedly a sketch comedy show, I didn’t laugh once. Talk about pulling punches, it was like the Palin gag order included everyone on the show too. Huge opportunity for her to make an impact with this audience, and she pretty much fell flat on her face… not worth the cost of the car service to get her from the gun club, TGI Fridays, sports bar or where ever she hangs while in NYC over to 30 Rock.

  My Final Decision: Lame – SNL needs some new blood. Baldwin, Fey, and Poehler are the only people giving that show a fighting chance.

  Comment by tmac — Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 11:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is it possible to be a host and a parasite at the same time? A GOP win would be beneficial to SNL & NBC — don’t think they don’t want to keep the ratings going.

  Comment by Lars — Sunday October 19, 2008 @ 12:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• Why`s everyone have their panties in a knot?

  Relax and just take it light. ..don`t drink the CNN-Fox cool-aide.

  is Lorne getting a bit puffy?

  Comment by Jake Gittes — Sunday October 19, 2008 @ 1:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• I’ve never been more disappointed in SNL. It’s one thing when established candidates like Obama and McCain appear. They’ve earned it. But this is a complete sellout on the part of the show.

  When Sarah Palin — who has not even subjected herself to an actual press conference — gets to use the show for PR purposes, “laughing” with the very “liberal media elites” she bashes on the stump to appeal to “real Americans”, I’m sorry but that crosses a line. She has not earned the right to appear on the show. If you don’t subject yourself to actual media scrutiny, you don’t get to take advantage of free publicity stunts.

  And worse, for the show to go for the comically hackneyed “fear” of doing an impression in front of the real person “What? She’s here?!” Lame and pathetic. I thought Tina Fey had more backbone than that. (By the way, it’s the same dusty bit they used moments later with Andy Samberg and Mark Wahlberg — “Oh, no! The person I impersonate is facing me! Oh, I hope they’re not angry or wanting to hurt me!” Did SNL really have to promote “Max Payne” and Mayor Moose-olini on the same show, with the same bit?

  For someone who, at least in public statements, has voiced a real antipathy toward Palin, I just think the moral stance for Tina Fey would’ve been to not even appear on this week’s episode than legitimize Palin in any fashion. It completely neuters the cutting (if not particularly vicious) impression she’s been doing. Oh, but, wait, I guess she’s got to promote “30 Rock” since it’s been so wisely off the air months after it’s Emmy win.

  What happened to the show’s counterculture roots? It’s pathetic how craven Lorne Michaels has become as the show slips from relevance with each increasing, interminable year.

  Comment by Michael — Sunday October 19, 2008 @ 2:44am PDT  Reply to this post

• The rest of the show was a comedic landfill. Palin should’ve just only had an appearance in the Cold Open, and not Update. Because that was embrassing.

  I don’t know what was more of a nadir. The rap. Or the fartface sketch.

  Also, Will Ferrell is a much better bush than mr. Brolin.

  Comment by Arrested Development/30 Rock Fan — Sunday October 19, 2008 @ 4:47am PDT  Reply to this post

• Oh what a shame. It was painful to watch this ep of SNL. Just when you think they are back and then they produce the weakest episode ever

  SNL, you almost had me..

  To Marky Mark, the donkey’s mother say hi to your mom

  Comment by Armand — Sunday October 19, 2008 @ 6:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• Alex Baldwin? Kicked everyone’s buns?? He READ every single word! Ooooooh, what an actor:(
  Sarah Palin’s appearance was the kiss of death, to an already sinking campaign.

  Comment by Snerkles — Sunday October 19, 2008 @ 7:41am PDT  Reply to this post

• Sarah Palin waving her arms up in the air when Amy Polin is wrapping about Bill Ayers! This is what American politics has come to! SCARY!

  Comment by entertainmentodayandbeyond.com — Sunday October 19, 2008 @ 8:21am PDT  Reply to this post

• i luved all the skits with Plain were great. U know she loved that rap segment. I sure did.

  “…when I say Obama, U say Ayers!” “Obama!” “Ayers!” “Obama!” “Ayers!”

  “all the Mavericks in the house put your hands UP!” “all the Mavericks in the house put your hands UP!”

  “McCain-Palin going to put a nail-in the coff-in of the media elite!”

  hahahaha one great rally set piece after another!

  …you know Palin was good or else all the liberals on this thread would be have been wetting their pants & saying how “terrific” SNL was.

  hahahaha best laugh i have had the whole election cycle…

  …many thanks Lorne. now lets see if Biden has a pair to go on next.

  cheers

  Comment by lu-ee — Sunday October 19, 2008 @ 9:16am PDT  Reply to this post

• Very funny stuff, Sarah Palin did great and Tina Fey always cracks me up. It would be great to see four years of VP Palin skits.

  Comment by Veronica — Sunday October 19, 2008 @ 10:30am PDT  Reply to this post