Palin Considers Saturday Night Live Appearance

Ferrell's Bush praises 'heavily patriotized' ticket

(NEWSER) - Will Ferrell reprised his role as a bumbling George Bush for last night's special edition of Saturday Night Live to force his endorsement on an extremely unreceptive GOP "ticket." Ferrell first explained to Tina Fey's Sarah Palin that the vice president tells a president what to do and that it's the most important job in the land. Then Darrell Hammond's reluctant "John McCain" arrived for a clearly unwelcome endorsement. More»

Foreign experience? She tells Russians who stray into Alaska to 'shoo'

(NEWSER) - Comedian Tina Fey skewered Sarah Palin in a command reprise performance on Saturday Night Live last night. This time, Fey parodied the candidate's foibles during her interview with Katie Couric, reports Comedy Centric. In the opening sketch, Fey, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Palin, is stumped by a question from Amy Poehler’s Couric and asks “to use one of my lifelines—I’d like to phone a friend,” she says. More»

Tina nails Sarah impersonation on SNL season opener

(NEWSER) - Tina Fey ushered in the new Saturday Night Live season last night with her much-anticipated Sarah Palin impersonation, sharing the opening skit with Amy Poehler’s Hillary Clinton in a “public service announcement” deriding the media’s sexist coverage of the presidential campaign. The sketch also skewered Palin’s views on global warming (it’s “just God hugging us closer”) and her lack of experience in international affairs, reports People. More»

Actress who represents 'normalcy' dishes on glamor

(NEWSER) - Tina Fey has learned a lot about fashion as her star has gotten brighter—for example, the trick of holding up your breasts with double-sided tape—yet she was “clobbered” for the Zac Posen dress she wore to the Golden Globes. “Do you think George Clooney will hold a telethon for my dress?” she asks Jonathan Van Meter of Vogue . See what she had to say about other awards show looks in the gallery. For more from the interview, including the fallout from her Sarah Palin impersonation, read on: More»

Stars who made it big after the show

(NEWSER) - Not all Saturday Night Live alums go on to bigger and better things after leaving the show. Time pronounces the top 10 who did.

• Will Ferrell has come a long way since those cheerleader sketches. His latest flick, Land of the Lost, opens today (and judging from the reviews, it's a good thing he already has an enthusiastic fan base).
• Janeane Garofalo and Sarah Silverman didn't last long on SNL, but that hasn't mattered much since.