WASHINGTON - Comedian Tina Fey says she’s checking out if her spitting image twin, Republican vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin, and White House contender John McCain win the general election next month.
Fey said she has loved playing Palin in the Saturday Night Live skits so far, especially with Amy Poehler who played Sen. Hillary Clinton in one and CBS News anchor Katie Couric in another.
“That lady is a media star. She is a fascinating person, she’s very likeable. She’s fun to play, and the two bits with Amy, that was super fun,” Fey told TV Guide.
But a long-term gig isn’t in the cards.
“We’re gonna take it week by week. If she wins, I’m done,” she said. “I can’t do that for four years. And by ‘I’m done,’ I mean I’m leaving Earth.”
Fey has been hailed for her impressions of Palin, mocking in great detail her difficulties with media interviews and her lack of international experience.
For her part, Palin has tried to make the best of being the target of Fey’s humor. “I was just trying to give Tina Fey more material - job security for Saturday Night Live,” she told a rally earlier this month.
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Photo credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni (Fey and Poehler at the Emmy awards last month)
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If you don’t think Tina Fey is funny you don’t have a sense of humor.
- Posted by David SewellVoting for Bob Barr,..Democrats and Republicans are both the same at the core: only interested in getting elected and staying in office which means selling out to special interests in both cases.
Never saw a woman so trashed in my life as Sarah Palin. Clearly she is less experienced than the other three candidates, but they all spent their lives wanting to be the President,..she came to politics a better way in my mind, but watch her get torn up.
Has SNL ever made fun of Obama at all? I have not seen this,..are they so afraid that any humor directed his way will label them racist? Apparently being sexist is not a problem.
For that matter has David Letterman or any of the late night hosts made fun of Obama? They all seem to have taken his side,..which is fine, but too many voters don’t really think for themselves, and think that Comedy Central counts as a news source.
BTW: if you know anyone who lives in Alaska, ask them how they feel about Palin,..the two friends I have up there think she is a champ, which is good for them because she will probably be their governor for a while yet. I have lived all of the country and in Europe,…currently in the North East,.I have never seen so much bigotry and elitism in my life,…people up here think if you have an accent from Europe and you must be smart,…have a southern or midwestern or Alaskan accent and you must be an idiot.
- Posted by scottjbBEN….YOU are an idiot!!!! The second election was NOT won and if YOU don’t know that …. you don’t WANT to know that
- Posted by The TruthPlease read more than the headline.
And I quote:
But a long-term gig isn’t in the cards.
“We’re gonna take it week by week. If she wins, I’m done,” she said. “I can’t do that for four years. And by ‘I’m done,’ I mean I’m leaving Earth.”
Tina Fey means that she can’t continue playing Palin for four years if she wins. She is not saying that she won’t win.
The two things below our forehead are called EYES. One of its uses is to “read”. Reading is not enough though, you’ll need a functioning brain to digest the information.
- Posted by EarthBush stole his two “elections”: one primarily through events in Florida, with the help of the Republican Supreme Court and FL state officials, by having the count stopped before it was determined that indeed Gore had won, and the second one primarily in Ohio, where notorious vote suppression, chiefly by means of moving voting booths out of Democratic areas into Republican ones, helped to squeeze out the necessary narrow margin.
Now Republicans are already trying, in every way they can, to suppress the vote nationally and to question the validity of a vote they know is very likely going to go against them. Fox Noise reports on Acorn in every news report, and McCain speaks of it constantly, but a voter registration movement with some faulty workers in it (one that McCain himself once supported) doesn’t add up to “voter fraud,” since everyone still has to identify themselves at the polling place, and I doubt that “Mickey Mouse” is going to show up. What a shambles for our democracy.
- Posted by Tom JeffersonVoters don’t dismiss Senator Obama because of some race issue. There are those that won’t vote for him simply because of his liberal politics. It has always been this way. Even Kennedy, who was a rock star of his time, wasn’t elected president in a landslide. Not every person in America bought into Kennedy’s politics. People vote usually by ideology, or by their checkbook if they don’t have any ideology. Or others simply vote a straight ticket in every election anyway. But most voters will vote against Senator Obama simply because he doesn’t represent their political values. I am a minority and I won’t be voting for him.
- Posted by DeborahI would love to vote for a non-caucasian person - it would be good for America. We’ve come a long, long way but we know that racism still exists. The problem is when every objection to someone is turned into an accusation of racism. Wolf, wolf and wolf again.
- Posted by cccinosLighten up folks! Parody isn’t the battle ground the voting booth is.
- Posted by Rodger LemondeTo Curious:
Barack Hussein Obama is NOT a MUSLIM. He will NOT be placing his hand on the Holy Qur’an if he is elected to take office. Please don’t post false claims in your posts, because ignorant people will read your comment and believe it. Regardless, it is absolutely disappointing to see the very negative way the public has reacted to this false claim–it’s as if being Muslim is a horrible, contagious disease or something. Sheesh.
- Posted by r.Tina Faye does the diry work for Liberals in the skits, simple enough. Cons and Reps can use such behavior from her kind of people as motivation for voting Palin into office.
The other thing that both Cons and Reps can do is to stop watching the shows that Tina Faye helps. If she wants to be a political hack, the audience merly has to tune the woman out.
- Posted by JoePoor Sarah Palin, shoutin’ and flailin’, flingin’ some old moose doo-doo. She don’t have to read, she don’t have to think, and she’s got her sights set on you. Please Mrs. Dude, don’t be so darned rude, don’t stoop to those old Karl Rove tricks! If you’re gonna run, put down that big gun, put away all the stones and the sticks. Remember Old McCain, who’s now such a pain, the way he once talked straight and true? C’mon, Sarah Palin, this tactic is failin’, let’s hear somethin’ honest from you. (GObama!)
- Posted by Tom Jefferson