Saturday Night Live 34th season premiere on September 13, 2008 opened with a memorable skit with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton.

As the program came on (at 10:30 p.m. Central time), there was Fey in a bright red blazer. She was the spitting image of Palin (or wait, is Palin the spitting image of Fey?). Even Fey’s flat Palin-esque accent was perfect; Fey had obviously closely studied the interviews that Palin gave to ABC on Thursday and Friday. 

On “SNL,” Fey stood beside her good friend and fellow castmate Amy Poehler, whose Hillary Clinton has been one of the high points of recent “SNL” history. They slung barbs that took sharp aim at Palin’s experience — or lack thereof — and at the perception that Clinton has been relentlessly ambitious.

“Mine!  It’s supposed to be mine!” Poehler-as-Clinton said. “I need to say something. I didn’t want a woman to be President. I wanted to be President and I just happen to be a woman.”

Both women agreed on one thing: That sexism had become an issue in the campaign. It was an issue that “frankly surprised to hear people suddenly care about,” Poehler-as-Clinton deadpanned.

She later warned Fey-as-Palin that she didn’t “want to hear you compare your road to the White House to my road to the White House. I scratched and clawed through mud and barbed wire and you just glided in on a dog sled wearing your pageant sash and your Tina Fey glasses.”

As she spoke, Fey-as-Palin struck sexy poses and pretended to fire a shotgun. “What an amazing time we live in,” she said. “To think that just two years ago, I was a small town mayor of Alaska’s crystal meth capitol.”

Source: Did Tina Fey out-Palin Palin on ‘Saturday Night Live’?

Sarah Palin (L) and Tina Fey (R)

As ABC Political Radar reports, the real Sarah Palin and her staff saw the program.

ABC News’ David Wright and Alyssa Litoff Report: As comedienne Tina Fey debuted her impression of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live, the governor and her staff were watching from 30,000 feet.

Palin was on board her campaign jet flying from Reno to Denver as 11:30 PM Eastern rolled around. But the show was available on the Jetblue charter’s satellite TV system.

Standing alongside SNL cast member Amy Poehler who was impersonating Hillary Clinton, Fey’s Palin extolled her foreign policy expertise in a flat midwestern accent: “I can see Russia from my house!”

There were howls of laughter from the sizeable press corps covering Palin’s first foray on the campaign trail without her running man as a chaperone.

But, from the front of the plane, silence. The flight attendants assured us Palin and her entourage were watching. What she thought, though, is anybody’s guess.

Palin has yet to say so much as hello to the press corps.

Source: Live From New York, It’s Sarah (Tiny Fey) Palin!

Photo credit: NBC, AP



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