Saturday Night Live Returns with Bin Laden and Tina Fey Doing Sarah Palin – Video

SNL returned last night with its first new show of the season, and it was … just okay.

You just knew that with the death of Osama Bin Laden, and the blabbering mouth of Donald Trump in the news, that there would be some golden nuggets of comedy.

But there really wasn’t.

A pregnant Tina Fey hosted with musical guest Ellie Goulding, and things got off to a mild start with a cold open parody of Osama Bin Laden reading his last will and testament.

Watch Osama Bin Laden Read his Will on SNL


The best part of the evening was Tina Fey’s return as Sarah Palin during a sketch about the 2012 Undeclared Candidates GOP Debate. Palin appreciated FOX News hosting the debate since the both paid her and showed her the all the questions ahead of time.

The debate also featured big mouth and bad haired Donald Trump and was the best sketch of the night.

Watch Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin and Donald Trump on SNL Debate


I have to say, Saturday Night Live has really lost their edge over the last ten years. They seem to get so close to greatness but always fall flat.

Between the death of Osama Bin Laden and Donald Trump running his mouth, there were so many fantastic opportunities for some great cutting edge comedy that 90 minutes should not have been enough time to cover it all.

Take the Osama reading his will sketch – writers really had time to make it epic but it just never pulled the laughs. It’s almost like if they get the set, costume, and impersonation down then whatever they say is funny.

And then there was the musical guest Ellie Goulding. She covered Elton Johns “Your Song” and was quite uninspiring. Maybe it’s her voice or the fact that she stood perfectly still during her performances.

If this was American Idol, Ellie Goulding never would have made it through the initial screening. She was bad.

Saturday Night Live has fallen flat and last night was no exception. So many great possibilities but so many lame jokes and sketched.

Weekend Update used to be parody about the week’s top news, but today it’s just a chance to profile weird characters that have nothing to do with the day’s current events. Loose the characters and get back to your roots of spoofing the news.

Sorry Lorne Michaels, but I’m glad I have a DVR.

But maybe I have just fallen out of the shows demographic. I like saying that rather then I’m getting old.

Related: Osama Bin Laden's Last Facebook Post

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Donald Trump on the Today Show – What an Idiot - Video

Seriously, Donald Trump is an idiot.

He did an interview this morning on NBC’s Today Show, and has just proved he would make a very bad president.

It’s really hard to even watch him and imagine that he can even take himself seriously. He has almost become like some kind of weird Mr. Magoo cartoon character.

But he says if the people want him to run for President – he’ll run. He says he really doesn’t want to do it but if nobody else steps up that can take charge – he will.

Really? What an egotistical idiot.

He also has the perfect reason to dodge every question because as he says, “I can’t say anything while Celebrity Apprentice is still in production”.

Really? What an idiot.

He goes on to say the only reason we should be in Libya, wait for it…., is for OIL! If we can’t buy all their oil then we shouldn’t be fighting a war for them.

Really? What an idiot.

I could go on, but the video below speaks for itself.

At times like these you really have to look deep and hope that the American voters are smarter than this, and can see through the haze of smoke and mirrors and political speak.

Please God, Don’t let Donald Trump become President.

At least it takes the attention away from Sarah Palin for a while.

Amen

Watch Donald Trump be an Idiot on the Today Show

Video - John McCain Does SNL - Nails It

John McCain visited the set of Saturday Night Live last night for a last ditch effort to connect with voters.

Now famous Tina Fey, acting as Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, joined the candidate in one of the funniest opening skits ever.

The sketch, a jab at the thirty-minute infomercial Barack Obama purchased last week, was intended to give the candidates some final remarks on the campaign. Unfortunately, the only airtime they could afford was on the QVC shopping network.

While the two gave their final wisdom, they also hawked Joe the plumber dolls, and Obama town hall commemorative plates - that were blank. The best product was a set of "Pork Knives" guaranteed to cut the pork from anything.

There was also a cameo by McCain's wife Cindy, who introduced expensive QVC jewelry. Sarah Palin (Tina Fey) also went rouge when she tried to sell Palin In 2012 shirts.

Also, on the Weekend Update section, McCain explained his last ditch efforts and "Radical Ideas" he may use if things don't go his way.

Later in the show, Affleck mocked Keith Olbermann in a controversial segment that drew grasps from the audience.

Related : Ben Affleck Does Keith Olbermann On SNL - Video

Watch John McCain And Tina Fey In SNL Open


Watch John McCain on SNL Weekend Update

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Sarah Palin Does SNL - Watch Video

Alaskan governor and VP presidential candidate Sarah Palin made history Saturday night.

She made a special guest appearance on the long running hit sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live" on October 18.

In what can only be a result of the recent Tina Fey impersonations, and continual campaign gaffs, Palin took the opportunity to lampoon her shortcomings, and show the country she has a sense of humor.

Joined by Fey and Alec Baldwin, the two lampooned a Palin press conference. But SNL really missed an opportunity here, we thought the skit was somewhat lame and still think they should have done a "30 Rock" parody with Palin playing Fey's role - especially since they had Alec Baldwin there.

Where is Joe the plumber and Katie Couric when you need them? At least Mark Wahlberg stopped by to set the record straight with Andy Samberg about his "talking to animals" problem.

Watch Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live Video



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Tina Fey Talks Sarah Palin With David Letterman - Video

Tina Fey tells David Letterman that this whole Sarah Palin thing "Is the strangest thing that ever happened to me".

Fey told Dave how the Palin impersonation came about and how she ended up on Saturday Night Live. "You drop the G's and use a lot of R's and add a little Reese Witherspoon. Fey says Palin got "Lost in the corn maze…" during the Katie Couric interview.

Related: Watch Other Tina Fey SNL Videos

Fey does not believe that her skits are helping or hurting the election process, but that some people think it is a bit racist. Tina also shared with Letterman that it was Palin who contacted SNL in an attempt to book a guest appearance. That show is scheduled to air tonight.

Tina Falin, the new nickname given to Fey by friends, has also just started her new season on "30 Rock". She has announced an all-star group of friends and celebrities she has booked for the new season including Oprah and Steve Martin.

Related: Fey Books Oprah And Steve Martin Among Others For "30 Rock"

Watch Tina Fey On "The David Letterman Show" Video

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Sarah Palin Confirmed For Saturday Night Live Appearance This Weekend

It's official.

Alaskan governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will make a guest appearance on this week's "Saturday Night Live" - the sketch show helmed by Lorne Michaels that has been featuring a parody of the governor by former cast member Tina Fey.

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Palin will appear this Saturday night along with host Josh Brolin, who plays President George Bush in Oliver Stone's new movie, "W."

With less then 20 days left in the campaign, it has been rumored that Palin would make an appearance on either the Saturday night, or Thursday night mini version of the show. Some speculate that Palin will impersonate Tina Fey and her character from the smash hit sitcom "30 Rock", and that long time SNL veteran host Alec Baldwin will make a cameo.

Related: Oprah Winfrey, Salma Hayek And Jennifer Aniston To Appear On "30 Rock" - Video

Fey has been pulling double duty this last month with her work on "30 Rock", as well as visiting her old stomping grounds to impersonate Palin on SNL. On top of that, Fey is also writing a new musical comedy film titled "Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill", due in theaters next year, about an eccentric punk-rocker who forms a band with a unruly young Hasidic Jew.

On top of that she has just finished work on the Rickey Gervais comedy "This Side Of Truth", with Fey, Gervais, Jonah Hill, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Patrick Stewart, Rob Lowe and Jeffrey Tambor - a comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.

And just in case she needs work next year, Fey is rumored to be starring alongside Robert Downey Jr. in the animated family movie "Master Mind", a satirical take on superhero movies in which a notorious villain loses his vigor after he accidentally kills his nemesis.
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Sarah Palin To Appear On Saturday Night Live - Confirmed!

Now that Tina Fey has jump-started the SNL fury with her impersonation of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, it seems natural the Palin would want to return the favor by making an appearance. Right?

The rumor mill is running wild with speculation that Palin will make a guest appearance either on the normal Saturday night version, or one of the Thursday Night Live mini-episodes.

Both Lorne Michaels and Seth Meyers have confirmed that Tina Fey will again return in a guest role to parody the Presidential VP hopeful, and both hint that Palin is all but booked.

Lorne Michaels told reporters, "All in good time, there are three more live shows left before the election. Saturday's is a rerun."

But now news is leaking out that a deal has already been made, and the scripts are being written as we speak. We don't mean Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin, we mean Palin doing Palin. Or maybe Palin doing Tina Fey? Now there is an idea…

Sources close to the show say Sarah will be seen on "SNL" Saturday night, October 25, and that dress rehearsal time has already been scheduled for Friday the 24th. We can't wait.

Related: SNL Debate Videos And Tina Fey As Palin

Tina Fey left SNL two tears ago to create, write and star in the hit NBC series "30 Rock" with Tracy Morgan and Alec Baldwin. Since then, her celebrity status has shot through the roof, making her Palin parodies even more tantalizing.

In fact, NBC just announced an A-list group of celebs that will be guest appearing with Fey when "30 Rock" begins its new season later this month.

Related: "30 Rock" to feature Oprah Winfrey, Salma Hayek, Steve Martin And Jennifer Aniston

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Seth Meyers Talks New Thursday Version Of Saturday Night Live

Lorne Michaels, and the staff of Saturday Night Live are trying something new - a Thursday night version of the popular Saturday Night Live sketch comedy show.

Beginning this Thursday, "Saturday Night Live" will be seen in prime time for the next three weeks in the form of 30-minute mini-episodes of "SNL Thursday Night Live". The shows are scheduled to run through the presidential election, in addition to the regular Saturday night "SNL" shows.

The Thursday show will showcase an opening political sketch and the popular "Weekend Update" segment - no musical guest. So does that mean we will see more of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin?

Related Videos: Tina Fey Does Sarah Palin On SNL - Videos

Seth Meyers, SNL's head writer and "Weekend Update" anchor, told reporters that Fey would probably be back to play vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at least one more time.

"If Sarah Palin does something to get in the news, which she's been very consistent on doing so far, I think we'll see Tina as well".

Meyers also said Palin had been invited on the show for a sketch to make fun of Fey. The rumor mill is in overdrive, and we suspect Palin will indeed drop by for a much-needed shot in the arm, and to take a jab at her alter ego.

Since "SNL" brought back Tina Fey for guest appearances, the shows ratings have skyrocketed. The executives must believe they can capture a prime time audience during the last 30 days of the election cycle, otherwise they would not have picked Thursdays powerhouse "Survivor" as a target to compete against.

We think they can pull it off and that people will love it. It's just what we need about now.

In addition to her "30 Rock" and new found "SNL" work, Tina Fey has just wrapped production on the comedy "This Side Of Truth" - a comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.

The film is bound to be a smash hit due to its all-star cast of celebrities including Jonah Hill, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ricky Gervais, Rob Lowe, Patrick Stewart and Jeffrey Tambor. Both written and direct by Ricky Gervais, no release date has been confirmed and a trailer is not yet available.

For now, Seth Meyers continues his duties on SNL, but has just announced he is writing and starring in the comedy "Key Party" - where as a way to improve their love life, a couple decides to attend a key party which provides disastrous results for their marriage. Watch for it next year.

The SNL cast will also take a big hit next month when Amy Poehler leaves the show. Poehler is due to have a baby in November and has said she will not be returning to the show after her leave.

Related: Amy Poehler Announces She Is Leaving SNL

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Saturday Night Live VP Debate - Video - SNL Nails It Again

They did it again. Saturday Night Live once again nailed it with a parody of the VP debate with Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.

SNL regular cast member Jason Sudeikis played Joe Biden - teeth and all, and a returning Tina Fey played Sarah Palin.

A special guest appearance by Queen Latifah was the icing on the cake. Latifah played Gwen Ifill, the moderator. She was perfect, promising to not let her new Obama book cause any bias in the questioning.

The group talked about everything from hair transplants to solving the financial crisis, and it was one of the best SNL parody skits we have seen in awhile. SNL is really getting good at this.

Saturday Night Live has really been reaping the rewards of the mocking of Sarah Palin, Joe Biden and John McCain. Tina Fey's Palin skits alone have been viewed more than five million times on the official SNL website, and hundreds of thousands more have watched on YouTube in just the last three weeks.

Watch The VP Debate On Saturday Night Live


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Tina Fey Returns As Sarah Palin For Katie Couric Skit On SNL - Video

Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live last night to reprise her role as Alaska Governor Sara Palin.

This time, it was to spoof the horrendous interview the Vice President nominee had with news anchor Katie Couric last week.

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As usual, the skit was spot-on. Amy Poehler played the part of Couric, and of course, Tina Fey played Sarah Palin. Amy Poehler asked Sarah Palin what she thought of her trip to New York so far, and Palin's answers were classic.

Fey told Poehler she was shocked because she had "at least 15 to 20 false alarms" where she thought she spotted Osama Bin Laden driving a taxi, and in an effort to "bone up" on foreign policy had visited Time Square to see a movie called "The Bush Doctrine", but was disappointed when the film had nothing to do with politics.

When asked about her trip to the United Nations, Palin (Fey) told Couric (Poehler) that she was disheartened at all the "foreign people" that were there, and that when her and McCain are elected they will work hard to "get those jobs" back in the hands of Americans.

When asked about John McCain shutting down his campaign to work on the economic crisis, and the $700 billion bailout, Tina Fey responded with a convoluted, econo-babble, sound-bite heavy response that made absolutely no sense at all. The live audience loved it. Amy Poehler was great as Katie Couric, with her puzzled looks and uneasy body language.

When asked what lessons she had learned from the Iraq war, and how she would spread democracy, Palin was not able to give specific responses. After being asked again, Fey told Poehler, "I'd like to use one of my life-lines. I'd like to phone a friend".

The skit was classic old-school SNL at its best.

Watch Tina Fey And Amy Poehler As Sara Palin And Katie Couric On SNL



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Darrell Hammond Does John McCain On Saturday Night Live - Video

Saturday Night Live hit another high point last night when Darrell Hammond portrayed John McCain in a funny skit with Bill Hader.

The skit shows John McCain and the group recording negative television campaign spots, and Hammond being amazed at the modern technology in the studio, and wandering if the things they are saying are true.

They record ads for health care, and then smear Barack Obama with basketball puns, gambling jokes, tax cut questions, pedophile references, and childbearing issues.

Watch Darrell Hammond Do John McCain On Saturday Night Live

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Tina Fey As Sarah Palin On Saturday Night Live - Nailed It - Video

Last night, ex-SNL alumni Tina Few visited her old stomping grounds at Saturday Night Live. She had to. She is the only cast member that could pull off the skit of the year - as Sarah Palin, John McCain's VP pick.

And she nailed it. Opening in a skit with her "Baby Momma" costar Amy Poehler, she hit on all the topics covered by the media the last three weeks from living so close to Russia, to not knowing what the "Bush Doctrine" was.

Fey was a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1997-2006 before leaving to write and star in the Emmy-award-winning "30 Rock", a comedy based on her stint with SNL.

Of course we would have loved to link to on of the hundreds of "Tina Fey Does Sarah Palin" videos on Youtube, but NBC Universal, in its zeal to save the world, has forced the video giant to pull every one from the site. At least the world is safe for now, as NBC has yanked some good free advertising for one of its sagging shows. But we finally found found for your to see.

Watch Tina Fey As Sarah Palin On SNL


In addition to her being creator, writer and star on the current "30 Rock", Fey can be seen next year in the comedy "This Side Of The Truth", starring with Jonah Hill, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ricky Gervais, Patrick Stewart, Rob Lowe and Jeffrey Tambor. The film is a comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.
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Matt Damon Condemns Sarah Palin - "Terrifying Possibility" - Watch Video

Actor Matt Damon has made his position clear while speaking out in a YouTube video about the Republican Party's choice of hockey-mom Sarah Palin for Vice President.

Damon compares the addition of Palin to the John McCain ticket to "a really bad Disney movie", and thinks it is crazy that this woman could become President, which he thinks is a really terrifying possibility.

Damon feels "there is a good chance that Palin will become president", apparently concerned about the age of hopeful John McCain, and says he does not want "a hockey mom from a small town in Alaska starring down Vladimir Putin."

Damon does seem to bring up some good points, and we have also wondered why everyone in the media as turned Sara Palin into a super-star. A year ago she was asked on camera about the VP position and she said she didn't even know what the Vice President did all day.

Compared to the years of experience that Democratic VP pick Joseph Biden brings to the table, we think the Palin choice may have been the end to John McCain's chances for the White House.

Watch Matt Damon Criticize Sarah Palin



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