Did anyone catch Sarah Palin on SNL last night? After many many Tina Fey-operated spoofs on her, she finally showed up to challenge Tina to a smackdown. Or should have, anyways.
I mean, everyone has been waiting for Palin to show up on the show and make some kind of contact with the average world. And while Americans have been eating up Fey's impressions like painkillers, Palin's appearance has been long overdue. And what exactly were we waiting for? The fight over the Republican party's restrictions over her public speaking events has created a bubble around her- maybe we were waiting for her to break the bubble. SNL is no place for a press release, of course, but God give us something to work with here! She appeared briefly with Alec Baldwin and Mark Wahlberg, and introduced the show... and then had to go home to make McCain's curfew?
Was I the only person thoroughly disappointed with Palin's performance or lack thereof?
This could be looked at in two ways:
Kudos to Palin for being "good-humored" enough to face the ridiculing of SNL; while alot of celebrities often find themselves in the show's hot seat, the staff shows no qualms in being brutally honest in their opinions and representations.
And,
Why did Palin even bother showing up to SNL? She was on for ten minutes to introduce the show while people were wondering where did Tina Fey go? Will this encourage people to vote for her? I don't think that statistics are needed to say that the people who watch SNL are only a very small percentage of the people who are going to be voting this election.
Nice try Palin, but you're nowhere near as informative or funny as Tina Fey.
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