"SNL:" Probably No Sarah This Thursday
"Sarah, what can we do to convince you? Name it...anything...Lorne? He'll be nice. Promise."
No, no, NOOO!
That is, no Sarah Sixpack Palin on this Thursday's special primetime edition. This, my friends, is the official word from no less an authority than Seth Meyers, whom I just got off the phone with.
When I asked Seth about said rumors - that Palin might actually show to meet Tina Fey Palin face to face, thereby setting off a quantum reaction that would make the disappearing island in "Lost" look like child's play, he said: "Of those specific rumors, there's no truth. We do have an open door policy, but there's nothing specific yet, but our window of opportunity is before the election. We'd love to have McCain and Obama on again, too. Our doors are always open."
So...let me get this straight. Sarah Sixpack has told "SNL" no way, and that "I'm gonna pass up a chance to get on every front page of every newspaper in this wonderful land of ours, just so's I can talk to some nice ladies at a PTA function in Omaha."
And...that she'd much rather do a boring placid interview that would stretch the bounds of tedium with some local station in Dubuque rather than appear on this Thursday's "SNL," where she'd have a chance to make fun of herself, AND Tina, AND get McCain some more votes, AND prove to America that she's really a cool lady and all that other stuff that comes with appearances like these?
Are you telling me this?
Would somebody please get me the number of her chief media consultant so I can speed-dial the pup and utter these five words: "You, sir, are a nincompoop."
Anywhoo - as Sixpack might say - I asked Seth (who's also the show's top writer) whether she might turn up for one of the other two Thursday specials this month or the Monday pre-election one-off. Sayeth Seth: "We'd love to have her [and] we spoke to her earlier [before] the time Tina did her, and it seemed like something was going to work out." The problem, he says, is "the schedule. They're all pretty busy."
What Seth seems to be saying - if I may be so bold - is that Sixpack could still show up on "SNL" this month.
Do I need to spell out the reasons to her media consultant WHY!?
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I don't think it's as genius as you seem to think it is. I think her going on SNL to redeem herself is overdone, trite, and insincere. All reasons which I hope would be transparent to the public, but as clearly evidenced by one TV reporter, must not be so obvious to everyone. Regardless of this theory, Palin being savvy enough (or having someone around her whose savvy enough to tell her) to show up to SNL proves nothing about her character to me. It shows me she knows how to go through the motions of playing the game. And even if she WERE a "really cool lady", that would have no bearing on my opinion of her as a political official. Come on.
I hope SNL will not ask Sarah Palin to come on the show. The only exposure Sarah needs is through Tina Fey.
To have her on own would in a way be lending credence to her unvetted candidacy and bowing to the fact that she has said that she would like to be on SNL. Let this runner-up beauty queen not get her way for once.
Your writing is embarrassing.
I would love to see that! Why in the world does this have to be so darned political with some of you?? I am not an Obama supporter, but I am not going to freak out if he shows up. I thought Gore was pretty funny when he showed up there back in 2000. Get over yourselves. It's a sketch show and she has as much right as anybody to be there, if they want her to and she can be. It could be funny and she has nothing to lose by poking fun at herself. If you don't like her, you still won't. If you do like her, it would be awesome. And if you are on the fence, I would hope something so superficial as appearing on SNL wouldn't persuade you one way or another. Give people some credit.
No big loss. I did not want to miss CSI anyway ....
Your writing is really embarrassing.
There is the question, on whether she would be treated fairly on SNL, like a real human being, instead of the evil republican caricature. Why should she risk it?
I for one would not like to watch Sarah Six pack, wolf killing Palin on SNL. It is one place that I go for humor. She is anything but funny. Her behavior this week has been disgusting. In her audience she inflames anti-Obama sentiment to the point where people yell out racial epithets, threaten to "kill him" and Sweet Sarah says nothing. She
simply goes along. This is beyond disgusting. She is
endangering a Presidential Candidate. Who among us does not believe there are "crazies" out there that when riled up and inflamed by such rhetoric as Palin has been using, might just follow through on such horrid comments.
I for one do not think this woman deserves any chance to pretend she is anything but who she is showing herself to be.
My writing is embarrassing. Oh wait, I don't have anything to say other than 'Your writing is embarrassing.' But if I did write, it would be embarrassing. Trust me.
"Do I need to spell out the reasons to her media consultant WHY!? "
Do I need to spell out the ways this totally undoes the agitprop that is the SNL skits!
Get a clue, this is about double-think.
If SNL has Palin on, the last time I watched the show will indeed be the last time I watch it.
There's nothing funny about the way she incites (or the campaign is behind) people screaming "terrorist" and "kill him" with regards to Obama. I can't stand the woman....she's a pig.
So far, Tina Fey's impersonations have been "negative" campaign ads for Obama's ticket, stereotyping and ridiculing the VP candidate. The words she's put in Palin's mouth have been repeated by the media as though they were said by Palin. Fey's SNL clips are run during radio and TV new broadcasts as "news" and together with clips of the other candidates in lieu of clips of the real Palin.
Palin is wise to stay away; whatever she did on SNL would be used against her.
At the very least there should be a quid pro quo with Sarah Palin. If she wants to appear on SNL, then she must sit down for an interview with Brian Williams, or appear on Meet The Press. To give Governor Palin an opportunity to appear on SNL, when she has refused to be interviewed by anyone in the NBC news department, is to reward her for ducking the legitimate inquiry that all candidates should be subject to.
I hear from inside sources that they have plans to thoroughly embarrass her and make her look foolish. I can't wait!
I think having Palin on SNL would be a tragic mistake on the level of Nixon's "sock it to me" appearance on Laugh-In in the 60's. It would give enough dumb voters inspiration to vote for her ticket on the grounds that she "can take a joke", when we need a VP who "isn't a joke".
With all due respect to your seemingly nobrainer for Palin to appear on SNL, keep in mind the risk of alienating the religious right of her base to appear on what they view that sinful SNL show. Palin should already be in dificulty with this base group for the Joe Six-Pack line, which is a tacit endorsement of alcohol consumption and excess consumption of a six-pack, no less, (another taboo of the religious right, especially Soutern Baptists).
Further evidence of her lackof ocmmon sense, femal Mothers Against Drunk Driving ( MADD) can't be pleased with Joe Sixpack either.
Any benefit to infludence normal, undecided Independents would appear to be outweighed by this risk. Further, I believe the American public, exlcusive of the conservative Republican base, realizes the ineptitude of mentally challenged Palin.
The difference between Tina Fey and Sarah Palin is that Tina Fey doesn't lean on the RNC to cover up for mistakes.
I prefer Tina Fey. If Palin appeared on SNL, I would shut it off.
Saturday Night Live is clearly biased against Obama.
"The words she's put in Palin's mouth have been repeated by the media as though they were said by Palin."
Most of her lines are direct quotes from Palin.
The definition of a Habitual Liar is someone who choices to LIE even when there is no apparent reason to.
Sarah "The Witch Hunter" Palin is a Habitual Liar...
I don't want to see here on SNL or see her mocked on SNL anymore. Ignore her!!!!! Please !!!! And maybe she will go away!
Sadly, selling a personality works, even when it amounts to -- as in Palin's case -- putting a bow on a turd. For once, SNL's satire is so spot-on that it almost justifies Sarah Palin's much deserved ridicule. Appearing on SNL would be, I think, the "hippest", most self-effacing, she-can-take-a-joke thing she could do. Then she's fun. Then McCain's not so bad. Then we never get to see Michelle Obama in an innaugural gown.
All of this is assuming I understood the post. I'm not sure I did.
My country is embarrassing.
Why does this woman get airtime that's not afforded anyone else? She can take a hike... back to AK...
There is no way in hell I want to see that hockey monger on SNL. I want to see her on a one way sled back to the tundra where she came from. She can take Tick and Tac and Frick and Frack and Bristol and Crystal and first, second and third dudes - in fact all the dudes - with her. Oh - she'll want to stop off and buy a copy of The Economist along the way.
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If she can't even appear on a normal (Fox excluded) news station more than once or twice and actually answer questions, then it would be incredulous that she appear on SNL. She is a complete narcissist. It's disgusting.
She needs to go back to Alaska and take care of her Trooper-gate problem and her association with that psycho Alaska Independence Party - Oh, and her pregnant 17 year old daughter. Seems she's been out of the family loop for too long.
She's already a joke. She doesn't need to be on SNL to solidify it.
You people are ridiculous. What a bunch of whiners...really!. Its amazing how thin-skinned you democrats/liberals are...You certainly love to poke fun when it expresses your feelings, but funny how you cant seem to stomach any of the heat when it is pointed in your direction. Apparently it is beyond your limited scope to even fathom that there might be people who actually like her, or at the very least enjoy the humor in such a skit.
Isnt it enough that last week's hilarious skit poking fun at Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, and George Soros was pulled and has mysteriously vanished from all outlets? ...Thin-skinned indeed.
And for those of you threatning not to watch SNL again if Palin appears,....please do us a favor...dont watch...no one will loose any sleep over it. And believe me, SNL will go on.
To Betty, re: the bailout sketch.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/38041/saturday-night-live-washington-approves-the-bailout#s-p1-st-i1
I thought the bailout sketch was hilarious. I also thought Joe Biden was portrayed perfectly. Even the real Joe Biden thought it was funny. He would be funny on SNL. Obama would be funny too.
I could care less if they make fun of the democrats. Anyway, she should have other, more pressing things to worry about - namely her public image. She needs to be doing more interviews/press conferences and less whining about wanting to give Tina Fey a "taste of her own medicine". That could never happen anyway because she isn't the least bit funny - except when you look at her through the eyes of SNL.
That's the only way I can tolerate her hated filled, animal killing, gun toting idiocracy. Her whole fan base should have been extras in that movie. Easy money for them as they wouldn't have had to act.
The obvious thing would be to have Palin appear as Tina Fey...
If SNL has Sarah Palin on their show, it will be the last time I watch that show!
She is inciting crowds to violent and dangerous outbursts against a Presidential candidate!
Tina Fey is Hot & Smart!
Sarah Palin is just DUMB!
PLEEEEEEEEEAAAAASE .............. DON'T spoil the fun. Keep the barking bitch out of SNL. We love Tina Fey. Please don't spoil the show.
I watched Tina Fey's spoof of Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric back-to-back with the real interview-- and the two were nearly interchangeable. The only difference was that Tina's Sarah is somehow more sincere.
If the real Palin were to appear on the show, it would totally deflate the humor we have seen in Fey's impersonations. Why? Because Sarah Palin is REAL. There is nothing funny about Sarah or the possibility that she could become VP or President.
I hope SNL realizes that if she were to appear on the show, the joke would be over. I, for one, would never want to watch SNL again.
She won't appear because SNL won't let her write the script, or give a stump speech, or most of all, she might get annoyed at the cast who are all clearly smarter and more hip than her, and she might not be able to even remember who she is or what she is supposed to say. You betcha, this pit bull's only gonna take on chihuahuas. Ever had a dog that barked and snarled at everything in sight until some great big dog takes it on? That baby's gone!
She doesn't need them, they need her. Just look at how she claims to have been "tapped" by John McCain 94 times in 5 weeks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPE6_jGBlDc
She's brilliant!!! Tina Fey can't hold a candle to Palin. LMAO!!!! Better hurry up and sell your book Tina before Palin writes hers.
Palin is a tax cheat and pathological liar. The mainstream media needs to grow balls and stop putting her dumb face on TV until she holds a press conference and answers questions - with FOLLOWUPS!!!
I'd rather have Tina Fey as VP, than Sarah Palin. Maybe McCain can do the switch live on SNL. This would be no less an erratic move as picking Palin in the first place, with less downside of things like fake pregnancy/Troopergate/shooting wolves from helecopters/Bridge to Nowhere/phony lodging expense reports/secessionist husband/shotgun weddings. I'd also venture rather confidently that Tina Fey knows more about the economy and foreign policy than Palin - as evidenced by Palin's refusal to give interviews for 4 weeks.
Oh please - PLEASE - let me be in that live audience! Of course, there's no doubt at all the McCain campaign will only allow her to appear taped, probably with no audience, so they can prevent her appearance from turning into a negative. SNL shouldn't allow themselves to be used like this.
I watched the Katie Couric interview and the SNL spoof of the interview. In many ways, it was hard to tell them apart. Except Tina Fey is more attractive (and sincere).
why? lol SNL is wonderful and they did a great Palin...go Tina Fey! all she did was show how dumb Palin really is..come on,,,who wants a person that hardly has a education background to run our shit,,i thought americans belived in education?..its already messed up ...and all SNL did was prove that..keep her off the show. and if they use it against her.. so what ..
I hope they never have her on. EVER.
Palin would be a fool to show up on SNL. The SNL gang are sharp and don't miss a beat; Palin couldn't name a newspaper she reads. They'll make mincemeat of her. For her own good, she should stick with Fox.
Forget SNL, when is this hot mess going to show up in court and answer any of the numerous charges avalanching down on her this month?
How awesome would it be if she showed up and actually got booed off the stage? I wonder if the producers, etc. would talk to the audience beforehand and advise them not to boo or cheer either one.
I don't think that is exactly her audience. SNL fans seem to get more of a charge out of satirizing her stupidity and lack of qualifications, than hearing Sarah's insanity straight from her lips.
How awesome would it be if she showed up and actually got booed off the stage? I wonder if the producers, etc. would talk to the audience beforehand and advise them not to boo or cheer either one.
I don't think that is exactly her audience. SNL fans seem to get more of a charge out of satirizing her stupidity and lack of qualifications, than hearing Sarah's insanity straight from her lips.
How awesome would it be if she showed up and actually got booed off the stage? I wonder if the producers, etc. would talk to the audience beforehand and advise them not to boo or cheer either one.
I don't think that is exactly her audience. SNL fans seem to get more of a charge out of satirizing her stupidity and lack of qualifications, than hearing Sarah's insanity straight from her lips.
She is scheduled for tomorrow night. She will give SNL the highest ratings they have ever had. Wow there is a lot of ignorance in these posts.