The Huffington Postreports that SNL producer Lorne Michaels is talking to Tina Fey about her playing John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin. It sounds like a perfect role for Fey. All she needs are Sarah Palin's glasses and she will look just like her.
Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels said the show is talking with Tina Fey about playing Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin at some point this season, possibly as soon as this Saturday's season premiere.
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"There are discussions [with Tina]," Michaels said during a conference call with reporters. "They are ongoing."
Gina Gershon didn't do a bag job either for Funny or Die - see here. Comedian Sara Benincasa has also been doing a great Sarah Palin on YouTube.
Saturday Night Live (SNL) makes its big return Saturday night, February 23, 2008. Tina Fey is the first guest host and hot country singer Carrie Underwood will be performing. It has been months since SNL aired so they are going to run shows for four consecutive weeks to try and regain their viewership. The IHTsays the long strike delay irritated both Lorne Michaels and Seth Meyers.
The political gap irritated Michaels and a cast member, Seth Meyers, also the show's lead writer. The show prides itself on political parody and here, during one of the most exciting nomination contests in generations, the writers have been sidelined. Mitt Romney's Republican candidacy was gone before they returned. "I was in a rage for three of the four months," Michaels said, "then I sort of calmed down."
Even though some talk shows returned without writers until the strike was settled, Michaels said it was never an option at "SNL." NBC placed no pressure on him to do so, either. Returning before the strike ended would have been a breach of faith with the writers guild, but also in the collaborations between writers and cast members on the show, he said.
Meyers - who joined with O'Brien and David Letterman in growing a "strike beard" - shaved his off before going back to work. Some of his creative energies were burned off doing a weekly theater show with a fellow cast member, Amy Poehler, and "a lot of wisecracks in bars," he said. "I did that a lot. It pays almost nothing. You have to do it for hours to get people to pay for a drink."
The word is that SNL has also been trying to cast a comic to play Barack Obama. We assume they have one by now since the show is just a day away.
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