Sarah Palin – Live for New York, It’s Saturday Night!

After watching “Saturday Night Live” make fun of her from afar, Sarah Palin witnessed it first hand this week as Tina Fey engaged in fiction by depicting her at the news conference the Republican vice presidential nominee has yet to hold.
Later, Palin came on stage during the Weekend Update mock news segment and bobbed to the beat as cast member Amy Poehler performed a rap song the Alaska governor decided was too hardcore for her to perform personally.
“I’m Jeremiah Wright ‘cuz I’m the preacher; I got a bookish look and you’re all hot for teacher,” Poehler rapped as actors dressed as Eskimos, Palin’s husband, Todd, and a moose pranced across the stage.
The appearance was anticipated since September, when Fey began portraying Palin just after GOP presidential nominee John McCain selected the little-known governor as his running mate. The two look alike, and Palin remarked that people often told her — before Fey started portraying her — that she resembled the actor.
In the show’s opening, Fey’s impersonation of Palin told a group of reporters, “First off, I just want to say how excited I am to be in front of both the liberal elite media as well as the liberal regular media. I am looking forward to a portion of your questions.”
Moments later, the camera cut away to the real Palin watching a television monitor alongside the show’s executive producer, Lorne Michaels.
“You know, Lorne, I just don’t think it’s a realistic depiction of the way my press conferences would have gone,” Palin said. She said she wished he would have let her do a sketch about “30 Rock,” the NBC program in which Fey now stars. That prompted Michaels to deadpan: “Honestly not enough people know that show.”
Palin then stood mute as Fey’s “30 Rock” co-star, Alec Baldwin came onto the stage, mistook Palin for Fey and pleaded with Michaels not to let the actor go onstage with the governor.
“This is the most important election in our nation’s history and you want her, our Tina, to go out there and stand with that horrible woman?” Baldwin said.
When Michaels broke down and introduced him to Palin, Baldwin feigned embarrassment and replied, “I see. Forgive me. I feel I must say this: You are way hotter in person.”
Palin got even by saying, “Thank you, and I must say, your brother Stephen is my favorite Baldwin brother.”
The camera soon cut back to Fey who answered a question about the polls.
“I don’t worry about the polls. Polls are just a fancy way of systematically predicting what’s going to happen. The only poll I care about is the North Pole, and that … is … melting. It’s not great.”
The real Palin then walked onto the news conference set, sending Fey fleeing.
“Thank you, thank you,” the governor said to applause from the studio audience. “No, I’m not going to take any of your questions, but I do wanted to take this opportunity to say, `Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night.’”
It was not immediately clear if McCain, overnighting in Ohio, watched the show, but earlier in the day he told a crowd in Woodbridge, Va., that he thought Fey and Palin were “separated at birth.”
Speaking of his running mate, he added, “I know she’ll do a great job.”

- from AP

Was she funny? You betcha!

Sarah Palin raised the roof last night on her “Saturday Night Live” debut, yukking it up with Alec Baldwin and executive producer Lorne Michaels as she watched dead-ringer Tina Fey lampoon her at a fake news conference.

Fey, the show’s former head writer, who donned a red blazer and Palin’s up-swept do and glasses, took a poke at the Alaska governor’s press-shyness.

The screen then cuts to “SNL” show creator Michaels and the real Palin watching the show backstage.”I just didn’t think it was a realistic depiction of what my press conferences are like,” the Republican veep hopeful said to Michaels.

All of a sudden, Baldwin strolled up and mistakes the Alaskan governor for his “30 Rock” castmate, Fey, pleading with Michaels not to let “Tina” do the show with Palin, whom he calls “Caribou Barbie.”

“You can’t let Tina go out there with that woman. She goes against everything we stand for,” the notoriously liberal actor said. “This is the most important election of our lifetime.”

After Michaels points out that he’s speaking to the real Gov. Palin, a red-faced Baldwin backtracks and said, “Forgive me, but I feel I must say this, you’re way hotter in person.”

“I can’t believe they let her [Fey], you know, play you,” Baldwin said.

Palin shot back, “You know, your brother, Stephen, [a conservative] is my favorite Baldwin.”

After the pair strode off to the set arm in arm, Baldwin walked up to Fey, who is still in character, and whispered in her ear. Fey then exclaimed, “The real one?” and walked away from the podium, crossing Palin on stage.

The country’s most famous hockey mom then deadpaned: “I’m not going to take any of your questions, but I do want to take this opportunity to say, live, from New York, it’s Saturday Night.”

Palin returned to the stage for the Weekend Update segment, bopping to a rap by Amy Poehler while Eskimos, a moose, and a snowsuit-clad man danced in the background. “All the mavericks in the house, put your hands in air!” Poehler yelled as Palin pumped her hands in the air.

The show, hosted by Josh Brolin, who plays President Bush in the biopic “W.” joked in the opening monologue that he was in a recent political movie, “No Country For Old Men.”

“It was about John McCain,” he quipped.

- from NYpost