# Sarah Palin on SNL tonight **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558 "2008-10-18T21:10:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/1 "2008-10-18T21:10:26Z")
Anyone else surprised at this? Has SNL ever had such a polarizing political guest? What can they do with her? She wouldn’t agree to appear as herself in a skit, would she? Tina Fey as Palin is funny, but Palin as Palin – not so much. Whatever happens, I’m looking forward to it. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/2 "2008-10-18T21:12:52Z")
Oh the [Huge Manatee!](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/2/1362599_02bcdea730.jpg) This is going to be a big horrible entertaining mess! ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/3 "2008-10-18T21:34:45Z")
I figure the joke will be that she’s mistaken for Tina Fey. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/4 "2008-10-18T21:40:41Z")
> [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](#): > > I figure the joke will be that she’s mistaken for Tina Fey. Yeah. No need to tune in, really. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/5 "2008-10-18T21:42:32Z")
I saw or read someplace that they were going to do a parody of Tina Fey’s American Express commercial with Palin playing Fey. The only way I think I’d be entertained is if Palin gets booed again. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/6 "2008-10-18T22:36:41Z")
Maybe she will appear on Weekend Update and say “Tina, you ignorant slut”. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/7 "2008-10-18T22:48:02Z")
> [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](#): > > I figure the joke will be that she’s mistaken for Tina Fey. Perhaps a Spartacus-like scene, with Tina Fey and several others dressed as Palin, saying “I am Sarah Palin!”- maybe at a press conference or something. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/8 "2008-10-18T23:04:40Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Anyone else surprised at this? Has SNL ever had such a polarizing political guest? Maybe not, but everything after Nixon’s four-word 1968 Laugh-In appearance (Sock it to… me?) has been anticlimax. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/9 "2008-10-18T23:49:30Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > The only way I think I’d be entertained is if Palin gets booed again. That’d just get 'em going again about the left coast liberal elite. I don’t want anything to happen that the campaign can use to their advantage. Never mind. Whatever happens will be used to their advantage. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/10 "2008-10-18T23:51:18Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Perhaps a Spartacus-like scene, with Tina Fey and several others dressed as Palin, saying “I am Sarah Palin!”- maybe at a press conference or something. I like this idea. I’m Sarah Palin dammit! It should be funny if Fey is the writer. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/11 "2008-10-18T23:55:30Z")
How about the show opens…and since we all expect to see the real Palin, we see…Palin, who later turns out to be Fey? Or vice-versa? Maybe they play twins? The comedy mind boogles. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/12 "2008-10-19T00:47:33Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > How about the show opens…and since we all expect to see the real Palin, we see…Palin, who later turns out to be Fey? > > Or vice-versa? > > Maybe they play twins? > > The comedy mind boogles. Heh heh, you said “boogles”!:p;) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/13 "2008-10-19T01:10:48Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Heh heh, you said “boogles”!:p;) I did? I meant to say, “BOOGGERRR!!!..” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/14 "2008-10-19T02:52:41Z")
I can only hope that she’s in the opening skit, and then when Weekend Update happens, they’ll take a dig at her for appearing on SNL but not a press conference. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/15 "2008-10-19T03:05:28Z")
IIRC, Josh Brolin is the host tonight. He made a great W. in “W.” and I hope he plays Bush tonight. That is more interesting to me than Palin on the show. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/16 "2008-10-19T03:35:46Z")
She didn’t do too bad at all. And w00t for the Marky Mark cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/17 "2008-10-19T03:36:16Z")
That was cleverly written, but Palin is still a despicable skank. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/18 "2008-10-19T03:37:34Z")
Alec Baldwin- rabidly Democrat (though ain’t nobody braggin’) and not known for his uber-sanity or self control. That was damned risky. Unless— it was filmed earlier. I wonder if they’d threatened the audience with poison gas and or starved Rottweillers not to boo. Would like to have seen her with Tina Fey for more than a second and a half. Preferably with [Dawn Wells](http://crapo.senate.gov/idaho/images/DawnWells.jpg) as their lookalike mom. I guess a Patty Duke sketch with William Schallert as McCain would have been too much to hope for. Reckon she’ll be on again tonight? ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/19 "2008-10-19T03:43:22Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I guess a Patty Duke sketch with William Schallert as McCain would have been too much to hope for. I would think so, since I’m pretty sure Schallert is dead. 😉 I loved that show. ETA: Holy shit! He’s alive! I was thinking of Sidney Sheldon. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558/20 "2008-10-19T03:47:40Z")
She was OK, but no great shakes (compare her with McCain on Letterman). Fay was funny; Palin had nothing but straight lines. It like they didn’t trust her with comedy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-on-snl-tonight/468558.md?page=2)