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Last night's season premier of SNL was lackluster and sluggish ... except for the opening sketch, which was sheer genius. Second City-alum Tina Fey lived up to the hype and gave a stinging impersonation of VP wannabe Sarah Palin. Fey looked so much like Palin, in her blazing red jacket and stacked hairdo, that the perfectly flat accent (shades of Fargo?) and the smarmy smiles were like icing on the cake.
Amy Poehler's Hillary Clinton had some choice moments too, though. We loved when she said, "I didn't want a woman to be president. I wanted to be president, and I just happen to be a woman," later laughing maniacally and then tearing off part of the podium.
A great sketch, so it's too bad the rest of the evening was blah. Although Michael Phleps did look really cute in that undersized shirt.
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My favorite lines from the script:
PALIN: But tonight, we are crossing party lines to address the now very ugly role that sexism is playing in the campaign.
CLINTON: An issue that I am frankly surprised to hear people suddenly care about.
Hey Ward, wherever you are - I'd call this one out for leaning unfavorably again your crew. However, the impressions were dead on.
seriously hil-ar-ious. And dead on, though Tina Fey will always be my favorite after 30 Rock. Too bad the rest of the show bombed.
PS-I can see Russia from my house!! Oh wait that's just Gary.
Amy Poehler's Clinton is so great too. She gets a laugh just by bulging her eyes a tiny bit. Brilliant.
The scene was phenomenal. My favorite line was when Hillary says, "you walk in here with your pageant sash and your Tina Fey glasses."
Awesome.
Yeah the whole show was absolutely terrible. I was sorely disappointed. But then again, SNL has been so hit-or-miss for years now so I guess it's to be expected. I just would've figured that for their season opener, they could have done a lot better.
The papers were reporting that Obama was to make a guest appearance, I wonder what happened there. Maybe due to Ike his handlers thought it wouldn't be proper. Eh.
"lackluster and sluggish"
That could describe every single episode of SNL for the last 8 years, at least.
Obama ditched because of the hurricane - felt it was "inappropriate" to be on tv during it.
Tina Fey NAILED the accent. Great sketch. Unfortunately, this might represent the highpoint for the season.
tina fey was PERFECT as palin.
Perfect impression or not, the jokes just didn't feel like they brought anything new to the table.
Most of the jokes I had already heard somewhere else. Still have Tina Fey in my top 5 celebrity fantasies, though...
Politicians have saved the show from total ruin for a real long time. I think that somehow Lorne Michaels orchestrated Palin being chosen because she looks like Tina Fey.
It is too bad that nobody had the foresight to record the Armando Diaz Hootenanny shows at IO back in the 90s.
If you liked that, you should check out this other comedian most people haven't heard of yet.
His name is Jay Leno, and he is on the cutting edge of comedy. He is on this underground, below the radar program called The Tonight Show, which I think just premiered last week or in 1960. Check it out now before he hits the mainstream!
You guys really thought that was a Hilary "impression"? Fey was dead on, but that was just Poehler in a pantsuit with a Hilary haircut. If Hilary really spoke that way, she'd be the nominee.
Fav line: "Yeah, if there's one thing I'd like to go back and change: I'd want it more!"
I wonder in Obama pulled out solely because of the hurricane. Given all the weak, cheap shots at fundies (case in point - the kooky homeschooler game show - weak!). If he had appeared on that show, I'm sure the McCain campaign already had their "Obama hates Christians (pssst... he's a secret Muslim)" campaign ready to go.
Tina Fey is brilliant, and her Palin was pretty damn good. They pulled a bunch of punches. Still, Fey is a bit thinner than Palin (hey, I say this about men impersonating male politicians, so don't get all "pig in lipstick" fake pissed at me!) and most of all, Fey can't quite imitate the "I have no idea what's going on around me, but damn I'm confident" glaze in the eyes.