Matthew Yglesias » Tiny Fey as Sarah Palin

Sep 14th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

Tiny Fey as Sarah Palin

It had to happen:

Back to watching football.

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34 Responses to “Tiny Fey as Sarah Palin”

Jasper Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I like Fey a lot, but I thought last night’s SNL approached new lows of unfunnyness.
msw Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
SNL approached new lows of unfunnyness.
Not helped by the presence of Michael Phelps, but Tiny Fey as Sarah Palin was funny.
McKingford Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Let’s face it: Sarah Palin’s level of mendacity has reached pathological levels. The woman is incapable of telling the truth about, really, anything – even when confronted with overwhelming evidence of her deceit.

So I really think Jon Lovitz is more appropriate in portraying her than Tina Fey…
Adam Villani Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
How ’bout that USC?
Erica Kirchner-Dean Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
I saw it this morning. I thought it was absolutely hysterical. Fey had her down pat–as a matter of fact at times I really thought it was Palin. Bravo for SNL for making this circus we must suffer through entertaining. I am so thankful that I can see the humor in this. As long as she isn’t President I think I’ll be OK…
ty Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Ms. Kirchner-Dean: Just remember Tina Fey isn’t a regular cast member. We might be stuck with Seth Meyers or somebody portraying her on a weekly basis.
Ropty Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
It was not very funny, and they went way too easy on Palin. She is worthy of complete and utter derision. Why bring Clinton in? The funny thing is that Palin is less than a light weight, it is laughable to compare her to Clinton–not that they both face sexism. SNL seemed to want to avoid being “partisan”–making fun on someone who should be made fun of–so went easy on her.

Feh.
Colatina Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
SNL has this long run of only going for the lowest-lying fruit in political comedy. “Let’s put Hillary and Palin on the podium together!” is about as uninventive as you can get. News is when Palin doesn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is. Comedy for SNL is apparently getting someone to dress up like Palin and say the exactly same thing.
lampwick Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Hilarious.
J Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Oh come on, the bit where Fey made fun of ’seeing Russia’ from Alaska and about Wasilla being the crystal meth capital of Alaska were good.
DrBB Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
… they went way too easy on Palin

Huh. I thought it was pretty decent at getting a lot of critical anti-Palin memes out there, as well as some of the not-so ones. Her lack of understanding of the Bush Doctrine and the ridiculous GOP claim about foreign policy expertise b/c Alaska is near Russia as instances of the former. And I never thought the bit about the meth-lab problem centered in Wasilla would ever see the mainstream light of day. It’s only by getting these things taken up and echoed in venues all over the media that they have any effect, so yay. And I suppose you could conclude that they only put Hillary there to do the mandatory “balance” thing but they certainly pushed the contrast in a way that hardly played in Palin’s favor.
Colatina Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Fey made *Mean Girls*, about a tyrannical clique of high school girls, and now she’s playing a beauty queen who installed her high school buddies in high-ranking government positions, and called her political enemies “haters”. I guess going in that direction in a skit is too arcane for SNL viewers.
wren Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Is Wasilla the crystal meth capital of Alaska? That’s news.
Shannon Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
How about Poehler-as-Hillary telling the media to get a pair–awesome!
Grumpy Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
“Is Wasilla the crystal meth capital of Alaska? That’s news.”

Wasilla and environs. They also grow a potent strain of cannabis called Matanuska Thunder, or so I’m told.
tom0063 Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
It’s not only the meth capital, it is the marijuana capital of Alaska. (Yes, it grows there).

The short, intense arctic growing supposedly produces the near mythical “Matanususka Thunderf*ck” – sold as far away as Amsterdam.

And it was legal in Alaska to 1991.

One wonders how much the Mayor’s office and law enforcement appointments were concerned with these things.
Adam Villani Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Matanuska Thunderfuck even got mentioned in the Rough Guide to Alaska. To be sure, though, Wasilla is on the Susitna side of the Matanuska-Susitna Valley.

It’s true, though, the vegetables they grow in that area are huge.
DTM Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
I thought the opening sketch was funny and smart, and the inclusion of Clinton struck me as a very good idea (unrelenting Palin jokes would have been hard to make funny, and I think they gave Clinton some good lines whether or not they were really in character).

But the rest of the episode literally put me to sleep. I have a vague memory of William Shatner doing something unfunny, and Kristen Wiig repeatedly trying to steal every scene she was in, and that is about it.
E. O'Neal Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
MSNBC ran a Sarah Palin documentary in their weekend Cult Killer slot. Some say the cult she killed was Obama’s.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/273443.php
E. O'Neal Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
When do I get my McCain shirt? I’ve posted every dumb-ass thing you told me to. Isn’t making myself look like a total moron enough? How low do I have to go to get one stupid shirt?
Internet Security Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
#20 is a dumb-ass impostor.
nick Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
#21, by contrast, is a prodigy of wit!
S.P. Gass Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I agree with DTM on this. I chuckled a couple of times near the beginning, but the rest of the episode put me to sleep. I woke up on the couch.
scott Says:
September 15th, 2008 at 2:17 am
i can’t even fathom what i’m reading here and elsewhere.

we have become unhinged, and she is doing this to us.

do any of us on the left still have a brain?
Nick Kaufman Says:
September 15th, 2008 at 9:27 am
That skit was wonderfully written and perfectly acted.

I hope it hunts Palin down like lockbox hunted Gore.
Linden Says:
September 15th, 2008 at 10:39 am
I’m a relatively radical conservative and I thought it was funny. Why and how was this offensive? Grow a pair whiners. For those of you worked up about the “Meth Capitol” get a grip that amounts to four freaky liberals sitting in a corner getting juju flowing trying to figure out how to get the government to legalize it and then pay for it under the universal heath care plan.

There – I have officially done my part to lend to your stereotype of a lunatic conservative.
timpundit Says:
September 15th, 2008 at 11:29 am
It was very funny. SNL is hardly ever funny anymore but the portral of Palin by Fey was perfect.

She got the stupid, vacant beauty queen look down pat. And that she answers little better than Miss Teen South Carolina was even better.
Purpleone Says:
September 19th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Just about the funniest dang thing I’ve seen. These 2 actresses are brilliant. What timing. And the writing is brilliant. Poked fun at them both without being cruel. If we all cannot laugh at this all, what’s the point? Humor helps us all in these tough economic and social times.
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