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Hmmm… “Mark Wahlberg Talks to Sarah Palin” perhaps?
Wow. Should be an exciting night.
Yeah, SNL is about as funny as a fart in an elevator.
Alec Baldwin kicked everyone’s ass!
Thank the Good Lord for Alec Baldwin. He saved a potential trainwreck from happening. He saved the cold open.
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.
What is Sarah Palin doing paling around with the Hollywood elite? How anti-American of her!
Interesting how SNL considered part of Hollywood’s Liberal Elite when Sarah Palin needs a bump in the polls.
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.
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?
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.
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/
Does Mark Wahlberg even vote?
Funny, but they clearly pulled their punches.
Oh, overall, quite disappointing. Palin is just not a very bright woman if she went alone with this. She totally got P’unked.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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
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.
Palin went there no doubt at her advisors insistance that she should try and show that she has a sense of humor, and that was her big mistake. She really has no sense of what she is saying or doing as she follows the adisors scripted speeches and messages. Reminds me of Will Ferrell in Anchor Man when he reads the cue cards that say “go fuck yourself San Diego” at the end of his newscast and does not notice the difference. This was most evident during the Weekend Update sketch as the brilliant Amy Pohler ripped Palin apart with the rap song while Sarah cluelessly bobbed her head to the beat as the script called for. She is clueless and really got punked this time! But it even funnier to hear the wails from the neocons about how unfunny the show has become when they probably have’nt watched it since the 70’s if ever at all. And of course watch for Faux News to spin a victory out of this as their script/payola calls for.
Michael said, “If you don’t subject yourself to actual media scrutiny, you don’t get to take advantage of free publicity stunts.”
Sarah Palin hasn’t been subject to media scrutiny? She (or more likely the McCain campaign), I believe stupidly, hasn’t done many interviews or any press conferences. But that doesn’t mean every bit of her life hasn’t been scrutinized by the press. Since Labor Day weekend she has been under the media microscope.
And while she’s not at the top of the ticket, she is a nominee and therefore is an established candidate. The fact that they wanted her on the show because they assumed she would bring in ratings shows that she’s big enough to be on the show.
As for the show, I would have liked to see the 30 Rock skit that was suggested (by Seth Meyers if I remember correctly) instead of the stupid, “Oh, she’s actually here!” skit that we got. Gotta say, I don’t think I actually laughed, until the moose came out during Amy’s rap.
It looks like Baldwin is on the Marlo Brando diet.
The only good parts of the show were the ones with Governor Palin. The opening was pretty good but the rap later was hysterical…..
You people take all of this way too serious.
Painful eppy. Palin had business being there, and she looked very uncomfortable.
The opening skit was well-crafted, well executed, but SNL only exists to sell pizza, beer and cars. Those of you who think it’s sacred are like little children. Those of you getting so angry/excited about this election are like little children.
Stop being such a child and take a few deep breaths. Change what you can change in your own life and see what happens.
Good god this reminded me of the movie Bob Roberts.
If by “eating Brando”, you’re right.
First skit was pretty funny. Second one was lame, but not Sarah’s fault.
BTW, a lot of you really need to dislodge some wood from your nether regions.
Shame on SNL. Are ratings really more important to that show than what will happen if Obama loses this election? They made her legit with younger voters by putting her on the show and then pandering. They took all of the sting out of their previous skits and it was disgusting.
just in: between 14-17million watched.
highest SNL rating in 14 yrs.
TOLDJA that McCain-Palin are what give the libs MAJOR RATINGS AND THE VIEWERS LOVE IT!
Letterman also got a Halloween gift.
gotta luv it. McCain-Palin making a run on the states and the tables.
not over by a LONG SHOT folks. i think Fey should be hired to be Palin’s double once she is VP. wink wink
hahahahaha
from the NYTimes:
“The appearance on “Saturday Night Live” by the Republican vice presidential nominee, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, pushed that three-decade-old late-night show to its best overnight ratings in more than 14 years.”
“The numbers, based on the overnight results from the country’s 56 largest cities, gave the NBC show a 10.7 rating. Based on previous results in those markets from similar overnight numbers, that would translate to more than 14 million viewers. Only a few shows among all those broadcast in prime time reached that many viewers in the past week. “SNL” had hit as high as 10 million viewers twice this season.”
Hmmm, Plain appears and SNL has it’s best ratings in a decade? Me thinks this race isn’t over yet.
she might have use SNL for PR purposes, but SNL use the opportunity to mock her! It was great, she really showed her egotistical side and I believe that was the plan.
Someone with a little bit of intelligence would had never shown their emotional side on national TV as she did.
Thank you SNL!!!
Hmmm, Plain appears and SNL has it’s best ratings in a decade? Me thinks this race isn’t over yet.
Comment by savvydude — October 19, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
Keep dreamin’, Dorothy…
The first one was all right, and who doesn’t love Tina Fey? The second one was meh, but I was impressed that she and Seth were so synchronized in their head bobbing.
And I’m with whoever that is who said people need to lighten up (though in much harsher words). Seriously. If you’re going to bash SNL, do it because it’s no longer funny, not because it’s going to be the “death of American politics” or whatever. Overreaction, much?
When I said “media scrutiny,” I was probably using the wrong term. Yes, obviously, the media has scrutinized Palin relentlessly.
What I meant was her (or McCain’s campaign’s) refusal to let her be interviewed by mainstream journalists (i.e., not Fox News and CBN) and have an actual press conference is inexcusable and should not be tolerated in a democracy.
It has been obvious in the two real interviews she sat for — Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric — that she was utterly incapable of speaking anything other than talking points and would either not be able to answer the most basic kind of question — “What newspapers do you read?” — or would make rambling, idiotic statements or blatantly improbable ones like Alaska’s proximity to Russia giving her foreign policy experience.
As even many conservative writers and pundits have pointed out, Sarah Palin is woefully unqualified to run for high office and her being thrust on this election by McCain demonstrates the worst, most cynical kind of political decision-making imaginable.
Forget about her politics for a moment. Her complete lack of world experience, education, intellectual curiosity, depth, sophistication, etc. makes her uniquely unqualified for the office she’s running for.
People try to compare her experience to others like Obama, or Clinton or Truman, but that’s obscene. All three of those men have/had a depth and level of knowledge and education to them that elevated them above others and made them qualified leaders of this country.
Palin is incapable of putting together a cohesive sentence that isn’t a talking point. She’s an embarrassment. So if the McCain campaign is going to try to hide her from the electorate and just trot her out to make the same stump speech and vacuous charges against Obama — they should not be allowed to exploit her for PR purposes by other arms of the mainstream media like “SNL.”
In other words, if she’s not willing to sit and answer questions like every other politician in recent history by, say NBC news, then she should not be rewarded by NBC entertainment.
Thanks to Gov Palin this weekend’s SNL was the highest rated ever. But the Weekend Live skit was lame. The best was at the begining. Becouse it had a lot of humor about it. Did anyone notice that Tine Fey and Sarah Palin didn’t speak to one another?
Ha, Ha Ha! excellent show! You need guts to appear there…Sarah Palin apparently did have those.
You guys realize that 17 million tuned in because they wanted to watch SNL make fun of Palin to her face (which is exactly what happened,) right?
Why are the liberal twats babbling away that Palin should be interviewed by the mainstream journalists? There are NO journalists anymore. Just a bunch of hachet workers who cover up Obama while launching an all-out attack on Joe the Plumer (aka you and me).
I previously wrote that SNL clearly pulled their punches, but I must revise my opinion.
Tina Fey’s sudden “gotta scram” action when Governor Palin “showed up” made it faux-appear that the comedian was so intimidated by Sarah Palin that she couldn’t continue her performance in front of the governor.
However, a still frame of Tiny Fey’s expression as she exited the stage while Sarah Palin was heading to the podium leaves a different impression. Unfortunately, that expression was made a fraction too late, so that it only appeared for a moment, and this is why I previously missed it. Here’s an excerpt from bagnewsnotes.com about this frozen moment:
[T]he sequence of the night [...] was this one of Tina Fey, having just finished mocking Palin, actually walking right past Sarah without even giving her a glance. More biting still, before exiting the stage Fey throws a look back acknowledging that she got off scot-free.
The still shot can be viewed at:
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2008/10/palin-does-snl.html
I only saw the Update segment and I thought the rap was very funny. People are upset about her appearance like it actually matters. Clinton played the sax on Arsenio, remember? At least Palin showed she has a sense of humor about herself, unlike the One.
I think it should concern the left that McCain gives Letterman his best ratings in years, and Palin does the same for SNL.
I would question whether Gibson or Couric provided ‘real’ interviews, they were heavily edited to make Palin look as bad as possible. At least she went on those networks, the Democratic candidates wouldn’t even have a debate on Fox.
Michael, you protest too much.
You say that Palin is inexperienced? She has the same experience as Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), Calvin Coolidge, Andrew Jackson, William Harrison, John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, James Polk, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, William Taft.
Obama has ZERO experience in government. I guess you could count making a boat load of cash on a phony real estate deal with convicted felon, or you could count his career being launched in the home of an American Terrorist (unrepentant), or you could say that he was able to get his wife a big raise and promotion while getting her employer a nice little wind-fall of “free” cash, or you could count attending a Church that is anti-White (that’s called racism) and anti-American (that’s called unpatriotic), or you could point to his staff and supporters who are the usual collection of liberal big-government spend everyone ELSE’S money types.
Obama is like JFK when it comes to experience. You remember him? He almost started WW3 within the first year of taking office. Hmmm?
Obama is worse than JFK on policies. He has the inexperience (an no service record) of JFK, and is more liberal than Jimmy Carter.
Biden and Obama are both (combined) less qualified than Palin.
Why is that the “candidate of change” is hiring liberal hacks that work for the DNC, and the previous Clinton Admin? Simple, he knows he is not to the task and people see it. He must shore up his weak resume.
I find it funny that “intellectuals” who are liberals, are NEVER intellectually honest about themselves or their opponents.
As for the SNL episode, I did laugh. I didn’t expect to laugh. Kudos to Alec Baldwin for willingly poking fun at himself for being a liberal and pointing out the hypocrisy of the Media. Clearly that is driving many of the hate messages aimed at the show.
No doubt Sarah Palin’s “brass balls”, which she needed to appear on SNL, are ticking off the liberals as well. Boo f’n hoo.
How come no one is telling liberals to chill? It’s just a skit. Hypocrisy, they name is liberal.
While it is hugely hypocritical of Mrs. Palin to decry the liberal mainstream media, that is, until she wants some attention… the fact of the matter is that viewers don’t translate to votes.
After all, 14 million people watch Cloris Leachman on “Dancing with the Stars”. Does that mean they’d vote for her for vice president of the United States?
What is obvious, however, is that Mrs. Palin loves her some media attention, and she’ll go anywhere to get it.
And America is fascinated by people who will do anything to get what they want…
@ Mark:
If I were you, Palin has a very checkered history (just check out that AP Investigative Report on her and see how inept she is at being VP should McCain win) and she has even less experience than any other VP candidate. You need to stop evaluating Palin by face value and look at what she’s done in Alaska. Not a damn thing worth of value, I’m sad to say.
highest rated SNL in 15 years. wow.
love or hate palin, she is incredibly popular…hell the VP debate had more viewers than any of the pres debates.
think about it
….and this is what Michaels has to say. read it & weep folks, from Entertainment Weekly no less. So much for Palin being a red-neck dud:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20234814_2,00.html
Lorne Michaels: How ‘SNL’ Got Sarah Palin
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What do you think Palin gained from her appearance?
LORNE MICHAELS:I think Palin will continue to be underestimated for a while. I watched the way she connected with people, and she’s powerful. Her politics aren’t my politics. But you can see that she’s a very powerful, very disciplined, incredibly gracious woman. This was her first time out and she’s had a huge impact. People connect to her.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: She’s a ratings magnet, too — do you think she can land a development deal if this VP thing doesn’t work out?
LORNE MICHAELS:She could pretty much do better than development. I think she could have her own show, yeah.”
Mary Katherine Ham is right: “SNL did Gov. Palin no favors in what it scripted for her. She pulled off that appearance on her own. But she was up to it.”
cheers