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New York, It's Sarah Palin!

Candidate set for Saturday Night Live debut tomorrow night

Oct 17, 08 3:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Viewers awaiting the next impersonation of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live may be stunned to see the real thing. Palin plans to make a cameo appearance on tomorrow's show, sources tell CNN. No word yet on whether champion Palin-impersonator Tina Fey will be joining the vice-presidential candidate for her... More »

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Saturday Night Live • comedy • Tina Fey • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • vice presidential candidate

 Fey 'Leaving 
 Earth' if 
 Palin Wins 

Can't hack her alter-ego for much longer

Oct 14, 08 8:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Comedian Tina Fey can't face four years of playing Sarah Palin and said she's quitting the planet if the GOP ticket wins. "If she wins, I'm done,” Fey tells TV Guide.  And by ‘I'm done,’ I mean I'm leaving Earth.” Still, Fey had "... More »

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Saturday Night Live • John McCain • Tina Fey • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

 Fey's Everywhere; 30 Rock MIA 

NBC's moves to promote show's popularity miss the mark

Oct 13, 08 3:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tina Fey’s popularity is at an all-time high, but NBC hasn’t tried to capitalize by moving up the season debut of her critically acclaimed sitcom 30 Rock. NBC has struggled to boost the show’s ratings, the New York Times reports, and hopes three Saturday Night Live specials... More »

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Saturday Night Live • NBC • comedy • Tina Fey • 30 Rock • TV ratings • Sarah Palin

 Palin, SNL Make a Date: Oct. 25 

VP candidate scheduled for October 25

Oct 10, 08 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin will appear on Saturday Night Live after all, New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams reports. The VP candidate and her endearing near-profanities are scheduled to visit Rockefeller Center Oct. 25, a little more than a week before the election. Is a reverse lampooning of Tina Fey in... More »

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Saturday Night Live • comedy • Tina Fey • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • vice presidential candidate

 Election 
 Results In: 
 Comedy Wins 

Race for the White House proving a comedy goldmine

Oct 9, 08 1:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - No matter which candidate ultimately surges ahead, political comedy is emerging as the clear winner in the presidential race, reports the New York Times. Tina Fey's dead-on parody of Sarah Palin has triggered a huge boost in viewership for Saturday Night Live. The Colbert Report and the Daily Show have... More »

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Saturday Night Live • comedy • Tina Fey • Jay Leno • Jon Stewart • David Letterman • Late Night • Election 2008 • Lorne Michaels

Rambling Palin Opens Up to Press Pack 

Sarah rips Obama's 'forthrightedness' on 'No-Talk Express'

Oct 8, 08 5:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin surprised reporters yesterday by coming to the back of her campaign plane to take questions from the press corps for the first time ever, Fox News reports. The candidate spoke in her trademark rambling style for nearly 15 minutes aboard what reporters had dubbed the "No-Talk Express.... More »

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Tina Fey • press conference • Election 2008 • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers • reporters

Palin: I Goofed Up to Keep SNL in Biz

Just-kidding candidate blames 'trivial' questions for dicey interviews

Oct 7, 08 4:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin's flubbed interviews were all part of her plan to safeguard America's Palin-lampooning industry, the candidate quipped at a Florida rally yesterday. Palin told supporters that the rocky moments in the Katie Couric interviews—including a failure to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with—came from annoyance... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Tina Fey • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • interview

 Now Palin May Imitate Fey 

McCain camp considers putting VP candidate in comedy sketch

Oct 6, 08 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s campaign is considering having Sarah Palin spoof spoofer Tina Fey by going on NBC and performing a rendition of Fey’s American Express commercial, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Saturday Night Live won’t air again for two weeks, but Palin may make a cameo on the network’... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Tina Fey • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

 Fey Flays Palin in SNL Debate 

Plays flute for the 'talent portion'

Oct 5, 08 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Comedian Tina Fey clobbered Sarah Palin in yet another dead-on Saturday Night Live skit yesterday, reports the Chicago Sun-Times, skewering the candidate's stance as a maverick, her relentless folksiness, and repeated feints at last week's debate to dodge questions. Asked what she would do about the economic crisis, Fey/Palin, winking,... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Joe Biden • parody • Tina Fey • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

 Now Fey's an Author, Too 

Star of SNL, 30 Rock to write a collection of essays

Oct 4, 08 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tina Fey just got a little busier. She's finalized a deal to write a collection of humorous essays for Little, Brown and Company, the New York Observer reports. Fey—currently in the spotlight for her spot-on impersonations of VP wannabe Sarah Palin—reportedly worked out a deal to fund the... More »

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Saturday Night Live • humor • Tina Fey • book

 Tina Kills Again as Sarah 

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

Sep 28, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Saturday Night Live • parody • Tina Fey • debate • Election 2008 • Amy Poehler • Sarah Palin • interview

Palin Considers Saturday Night Live Appearance 

Security detail has already toured the studios; Fey may return, too

Sep 25, 08 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin may make an appearance on a Saturday Night Live, where she was so accurately mimicked by Tina Fey on the season premiere, OK! reports. The Republican’s security detail has already cased NBC’s studios in New York. Fey could also come back to reprise her role,... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Hillary Clinton • Tina Fey • Janet Reno • Will Ferrell • Election 2008 • Amy Poehler • Sarah Palin • cameo • public appearance • impression

ANALYSIS

 No Skirting the Issue: 
 Politics Now Women's Game 

Candidates are obvious sign, but best commentary, comedy comes from females

Sep 22, 08 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - This election is all about women—and Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton can't take all the credit, Sarah Hughes writes in the Independent. The candidates are the most visible, but female commentators, comedians, and protesters have set the tone and are asking the difficult questions. "The good ol' boys... More »

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Hillary Clinton • women • Tina Fey • female voters • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Rachel Maddow

OPINION

Feminist Fey Skewers Palin
as Only a Woman Can

Candidate's doppelganger succeeds where male comedians' barbs get discounted

Sep 15, 08 12:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has made John McCain into a punchline, and there’s been no shortage of late-night comedians pointing that out. Unfortunately, they’ve almost all been male. Thank goodness, then, for Tina Fey, Simon Houpt writes in the Globe and Mail. It took Fey, a dead ringer for Palin,... More »

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Saturday Night Live • feminism • Tina Fey • Sarah Palin

 Fey 'More Palin Than Palin' 

Tina nails Sarah impersonation on SNL season opener

Sep 14, 08 5:19 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Hillary Clinton • Tina Fey • Amy Poehler • Sarah Palin

 SNL Wants Tina to Play Sarah 

Fey could portray VP candidate as early as tomorrow's season premiere

Sep 12, 08 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels is in talks with Tina Fey to return to the show to play Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The former SNL head writer could take on "The Barracuda" as early as the show's season premiere tomorrow. "There are... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Tina Fey • celebrity • Sarah Palin • guest appearance

Baby Mama Tickles Box Office Rally

Chick flick laffer
helps spark 17%
ticket surge

Apr 27, 08 7:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Comedy sparked a box office comeback this weekend as Baby Mama banked $18.3 million from mostly female film-goers, Variety reports. Also fueling the 17.2% hike over last year's frame were stoner sequel Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay with $14.6 million in second, and Jackie Chan's... More »

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film • comedy • Tina Fey • box office • Universal Pictures • Jackie Chan • Amy Poehler • movies • Baby Mama • Sarah Marshall

movie review

 Baby Mama No Bundle of Joy 

Only quiet chuckles in conventional flick

Apr 25, 08 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics don't seem thrilled about the arrival of Baby Mama, which tells the story of an overachieving, infertile career woman (Tina Fey) who hires a rough-around-the-edges high school dropout (Amy Poehler) to bear her a child. The movie's not "laugh-out-loud funny," writes Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post.... More »

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Tina Fey • movie review • Amy Poehler • movies • chick flicks

'SNL' Staffers Not Laughing
at Hillary Bias Claims

Show tries to be equally unfair to all candidates

Mar 13, 08 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Saturday Night Live” staffers are getting serious over accusations of a pro-Clinton bias, with producer Lorne Michaels telling the Los Angeles Times any perception of bias is a "major concern" and assuring “there’s no agenda.” The show’s send-up of a media crush on Barack... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Tina Fey • Democratic nomination • Lorne Michaels • Seth Meyers • Amy Poehler • media bias • Weekend Update • media frenzy

OPINION

'SNL' Regains Its Political Mojo

Clinton joins the resurgence

Mar 3, 08 7:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton's appearance on "Saturday Night Live" confirms not just that the show is back from the writers' strike, writes Matt Roush in TV Guide, but back "smack dab in the center of today’s political dialogue." The sight of Clinton and identically dressed alter ego Amy... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Mike Huckabee • comedy • Tina Fey • Hollywood writers' strike • Amy Poehler • Fred Armisen • Weekend Update

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