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No way Rump’s looking to trade up to an older model.

“She’s 2 Corinthians short of a Bible” was a pretty good line.

Fey might have to step up her game, it was hard to tell if this was parody or a simple reenactment.

Tina seems to grow to look more like Palin every day.

LOL, nailed it.

Tina Fey does a great job of impersonating her, but even satire Palin comes off as a little too clever and a little too likable than actual Palin in this skit. Satire Palin is kind of funny here. Actual Palin is an incoherent train wreck. Is actual Palin even capable of rhyming words? That would require actually knowing what you’re going to say next.

The only difference, as far as I could tell, was that Tina Fey was not obviously drunk.

Well on the upside, Lisa Ann and Guy DiSilva will have work for the rest of this year…or at least until Drumpf drops out.

“She sounds like a greeting card from a Chinese Dollar Store.”

heh heh heh

If you watch* Palin’s last few speeches she has really dialed up on all the speech patterns and mannerisms that comedians like Fey mock. Palin has truly become a parody of herself, and seems to have so little self-awareness that she thinks that’s a good thing.

*I meant this figuratively. No one should subject themselves to that level of punishment.

I could have used less Trump, it sort of broke it up a bit, But Fey’s stream-of-unconsciousness thing is awesome as usual.

Nails it!

I still think the best of these is the Katie Couric one where they didn’t write her part, they just quoted her verbatim.

That’s a terrible thing to say about anybody!!!

I swear I could not discern the difference from this skit and the real event…

I think that’s because most of it was reenactment. She was quoting Palin verbatim at a few points. I laughed so hard. It was such a treat!

I think that’s what’s so brilliant about how Tina Fey handles Palin. She saw immediately that Palin herself is so unintentionally funny that all she had to do was paste that look of smirking self-satisfaction on her face and quote her verbatim for the most part. It’s like a show-biz version of that thing where someone says something nuts and you quote back what they said to them like you can’t believe your ears.

Just a couple lines of Meth short of perfection !

For anyone who didn’t see Colbert’s version, it’s brilliant in a different way:

Yet another example of how comedians don’t need to write a script! It’s already written by people like Sarah!