"SNL:" Fake Palin to Meet Real Palin? (The TV Zone)

What would happen if "Sarah Palin" came face to face with Sarah Palin at 30 Rock Plaza?

Would some warp in the space time continuum open up, thus creating a black hole right beneath the GE building, which would promptly be swallowed, followed quickly and irrevocably by a "tipping effect" in which the ice rink would then tumble into the hole, followed by the Warner building, and next that Atlas Shrugged statue, Fifth Avenue, and pretty soon, the rest of Manhattan?

You do know that Einstein predicted all of this, right?

But really, what would happen? Would Sarah Six Pack tell Tina Fey, "enough o' yer ribbing, lady. I'm gonna have off at ya!" and then...swing? Would Tina - so deeply embedded in character that she'll never probably be able to ever go anywhere again for as long as she shall live without some rube pointing and saying, "LOOK Mabel, it's Sarah!!!" - then turn to the real Sarah and say, "look here, little missy. I don't know who ya are or why yer trying to look like me, but get outta here 'fore I call security..."

Possibilities are endless, as you can see, and bet whatever you have left after the market crash that this Thursday on NBC, the greatest face-off of the season may well take place on the primetime edition of "Saturday Night Live."

Yes, the real Sarah Palin may do a cameo.

Now, you can see I'm swaddling this rumor in "mays" or "coulds" and "who the hell knows." But I bet it's gonna happen. There are millions of reasons why, all good, and I guess I can think of at least five for the moment:

1.) McCain desperately needs a humor boost, as the world plunges into recession/depression, and most of said world seems willing to believe that he's somehow responsible for it. Humor is not something McCain's been associated with of late, except humor (see: Sarah Sixpack) of the wrong sort.

2.) "SNL" needs to keep the ball rolling. And what a ball! Show's up like 40 percent in viewers this season, and all or mostly due to Fey's exquisite rendering of the running mate from Seward's Folly. And if you haven't seen her on "SNL," then you've watched the next morning on TV Zone, where I've dutifully pasted the repeats, which has added up to another three or four dozen views, at least!

3.) NBC really really really wants to get this Thursday off on a mighty roll - what, with the new "Kath & Kim" sitcom arriving (very good, by the way.) And it's dear old "SNL" - twice as old as its average viewer - that will once again save the entire network. Sarah, please please please come on by (says the honey-toned Lorne Michaels.) "We' ll be real nice to you and donuts are free! Bring the kids!"

4.) Palin gets to joke with Tina/Sarah about her portrayal, and it doesn't matter how leaden the lines, how sodden the delivery, she'll bring the house down. It will be - in short - one of the great "SNL" clips in history, no matter how innocuous.

5.) Most important reason for this appearance is here, at number five: The Palin/Palin face off will appear on the front page of every newspaper in the metropolitan area, including the Newsday, which will then register record circulation gains for the day, and ensure the job of the TV writer through at least Christmas.

So you go, girls!

We (and by "we," I do mean "I") can hardly wait.

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