I too believe that marriage should remain a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers.

Comment by Flute player — October 5, 2008 @ 3:08 am

“I believe marriage is meant to be a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers.”

“Are we not doing the talent portion?”

Classic! Glad SNL caught the part about “Can I call you Joe” being a set up.

Tina Fey was once again dead on and Queen Latifah was great as Gwen Ifill.

Comment by Go Tina! — October 5, 2008 @ 5:19 am

The harder the left tries to discredit McCain-Palin, the more it energizes the base. Tina better get happy about doing Palin because she is going to be at it for the next eight years.

Nobama in 2008

Comment by the hawk — October 5, 2008 @ 7:33 am

why no follow up on your report about Obama and Tyler Perry? It seems like Obama did not attend the opening…

Comment by elliott — October 5, 2008 @ 7:54 am

Sharp? Try tiresome and desperate…

Sorry Tina, it didn’t stick this time. It looked like you were pushing it.

They should have opened with the bailout skit, at least that was more accurate…

Comment by sickofthis — October 5, 2008 @ 8:04 am

If that’s supposed to be funny, I’m glad I didn’t waste ten bucks on Baby Mama.

The more the Hollywood/New York elite trash a working mother with a down syndrome kid, the more it pisses off regular America who will show up November 4 enmass to vote McCain and Palin into office. Keep up the good work, Dems. You’ll be out on your ass for another eight years thanks to being so condescending and out of touch with real Americans.

Comment by Crystal Diane Stevens — October 5, 2008 @ 8:14 am

Mavericky!

The best so far from SNL and Tina is on fire.

Comment by Armand — October 5, 2008 @ 8:15 am

Listen I watch last night skit on the debate. This time it was Ifill and Biden who got the real jokes. I thought the Biden impersonator was real good;but Queen lafitah was a hoot too.

Comment by chuck — October 5, 2008 @ 8:34 am

Good job all around for. Funny stuff.

In the real debate, however, Palin came off like a well trained robot. It was extremely rude of her not to answer Gwen’s questions. Only a few days ago she said, “I am ready; you can play ’stump the candidate, if you want to’. Evidently, Gwen’s questions must have really stumped her because she refused to answer them.

She did not come close to coming off as good, she came off as making McCain look not as bad.

Comment by Ginger — October 5, 2008 @ 10:41 am

Actually, Lorne Michaels has his writers actually writing the real Palin’s material.

The bad Biden impression distracts from the strength of Fey and Queen Latifah.

Did I miss a Fey/Palin wink out?

Comment by John — October 5, 2008 @ 11:18 am

I know this is off subject, but when are the suits at NBC gonna dumped 30 Rock. It does lousey in the ratings even after a few years on air. The industry people love it, but the rest of America doesn’t. I still believe Zucker has a secret crush on Tina. Why else would they have NOT cancelled it.

Comment by me thinks — October 5, 2008 @ 11:19 am

Newsflash, Crystal: it’s not just Democrats who think Sarah Palin is incredibly unfit to be VP and possibly president. The fact that the only qualifications you bring up is that she’s a working mom and has a baby with a Down’s syndrome shows that even you have a hard time realizing that this Joe Six Brain Cells is running.

Comment by Sandy — October 5, 2008 @ 11:34 am

if people vote for McCain/Palin because she is a “working mother with a down syndrome kid”, they deserve what they get.

Comment by Lane — October 5, 2008 @ 12:32 pm

Crystal Diane Stevens,

Are you even a real person? I mean, do you have an existence apart from here and the 3 bazillion other boards you post on? Do you have a point, any point?

And, as a working mother, I most emphatically do not want someone like me a heartbeat away from the Presidency. I want someone better than me, smarter than me, someone who has a better grasp of what the job is than Sarah Palin appears to have. The real Sarah Palin was the one we saw in the Katie Couric interviews, not the coached product of the debate on Thursday.

Tina Fey’s impersonation of her was spot-on. Sadly.

Comment by Not Crystal Diane Stevens — October 5, 2008 @ 1:52 pm

Nikki,
If you’re going to show this skit from SNL, why not show the other political skit that aired the same night. The one that showed Barney Frank and Nancy “big mouth” Pelosi, in their complete lack of overseeing Fannie Mae, and pushing these subprime loans, a.k.a. liar loans. Instead of basing opinions on some stupid comedy show, read The New York Times series “Pressured to Take More Risk, Fannie Reached Tipping Point”, By Charles Duhigg, Dated October 5, 2008 (Sunday’s newspaper). I have nothing but contempt for these morons in Washington…both parties.

Comment by btl teamster — October 5, 2008 @ 2:26 pm

Sharp? I started nodding off in the first minute…

SNL doesn’t understand comedy should be quick in-out. Make a joke, then finish. SNL skits go on and on and on and on and on and on….oh my friggin’ god, do they go on…

Comment by michael dobrofsky — October 5, 2008 @ 6:29 pm

Crystal Diane Stevens - pick up a newspaper instead of just refreshing your DHD page all day long so you can be the first one to comment. Real Americans aren’t buying Palin’s “just like you” act - they’re smarter than that, even if you don’t think so.

Comment by Gotcha — October 5, 2008 @ 9:29 pm

I don’t get the Hollywood haters who read this - a Hollywood column. If you hate Hollywood and what it stands, then why are you here? I don’t get it. McCain/Palin will be the worst thing for Hollywood as “nutty Sarah” will do her best to enact censorship. She did it with books, she’ll do it with films and television.

Comment by JD — October 5, 2008 @ 9:51 pm

Definition of “pathetic” and “desperate”: Sitting in front of the TV on a Saturday evening watching SNL, which has sucked for years and years.

That NBC hasn’t cancelled that show indicates crap has a way of hanging on to the peacock network, and that the people who still watch SNL not only are desperate but that their sense of quality (much less good or at least half-way decent comedy) must be lower than low.

Comment by Kiley — October 5, 2008 @ 10:34 pm

I haven’t laughed this much at a SNL skit since Belushi died. Shows they can do good writing, at least at the last minute when Lorne Michaels is still asleep. Endings were always their weak point, though, and by ending it with “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” they get away without actually having to.

I agree with chuck that the Biden guy was great - but it’s hard to compete with someone so dead on as Tina Fey. But the fact that Palin is such a stereotype makes it hard to come up with original jokes; she just leaves easy pickins.. Comedians are just birds eating Hansel & Gretel’s breadcrumbs.

Gotcha - There’s no point in arguing with the Palinites. Just like the Palin haters who won’t see something good about her, the Palin lovers refuse to see through the folksy goodness at the hollow center. Personally, I think that given another 10 years and a little political realpolitik she’ll be a very formidable woman. She’s just really green right now, but being a VP will not train her for being the pres. at all. If the Palinites want her to be president one day, they need to keep her in the governor’s chair where she can really learn from her mistakes and grow as a politician.

Oh, JD, McCain/Palin might not be so bad for Hollywood - look at the 8 years of great laughs old “Gobble Gobble” Bush gave us! Aside from the whole Iraq war and economic collapse thing, anyway.

Comment by dennitzio — October 5, 2008 @ 10:50 pm

Wait! Isn’t this the talent portion of the comments section? Let me get my Smith-Corona…

Comment by helenofpeel — October 5, 2008 @ 11:50 pm

Now here’s a news story that is getting attention. SNL aired a skit paraoding the Democrats with George Bush on the blame of the Subprime mortgage. It spoofed William amd Marion Sandler who had a mortgage bank. But I saw the skit this morning on Fox and Friends and it was real funny. The best one being Barney Frank. Why would NBC pull such a terrific parady? Think about it. Theory is the Sandlers may have something to do with it.

Comment by chuck — October 7, 2008 @ 11:16 am

it would be dangerous for the GOP to reschedule another VP debate… the more unscripted air time Palin gets, the more time people will have to realize that she couldn’t answer a question about any of the major issues if her life depended on it. the prospect of her becoming the Commander in Chief is frightening

Comment by movie fan — October 10, 2008 @ 10:59 am

Rock on Tina Fey!! Awesome job!! Can’t wait to see more parodies of this complete moron!! Makes something incredibly scary incredibly FUNNY!! God, her ‘folksy’ crap’s annoying! But it worked for Dubya and she’s hoping she can pull the same shit and have it work for her, too!! Give me a break!! I’ve lived in a red state - w/lots of dumb hicks!! - for 20 yrs and these are the folks she’s hoping to fool!! I hope to God a lot of them are a whole lot smarter this time around!! There has to be SOMETHING good to come out of 8 yrs of Bush/Cheney/Rice n’ Rumsfeld!!! C’mon, pple, use your heads n’ think!! PLEASE!!!

Oh, n’ PS: what’s w/the ‘Downs Syndrome child n’ single mom’ crap???!! Single mom??? Ummm… Todd doesn’t count?? And, the baby… there’s still a chance we’ll be able to prove that’s Bristol’s first of two at 17, folks!! Interesting ’cause that Truth gets out and these Religious Zealots’re done for!!:) There’s a reason pple in glass houses shouldn’t be throwing those stones!!! Ya’ think??!! Lots of luck to all of us!!

Comment by Shelly — October 14, 2008 @ 12:28 am