Sarah Palin’s Attempt to Abscond with Tina Fey’s Child Ends in Disgrace

With less than a week to go before the presidential election, all of America is waiting, pondering the same pressing question: will the fate of Sarah Palin be wrapped up in a final, valedictory Tina Fey performance or will Kristen Wiig have to start practising her “You betchas!” for the next four years? Until that day comes (and until 30 Rock has its TV premiere), Fey is milking her impression for all its worth, and last night, she talked to Conan O’Brien about what happened behind the scenes of her run-in with the actual Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live.

It turns out that Palin, who had correctly researched that the child of her tormentor was named “Alice,” asked after Fey’s daughter, who had been sent home earlier that night. This disappointed the vice-presidential candidate, who claimed that she had readied pregnant Bristol to “baby-sit” Alice. The tale sounded fishy to Fey, and it raises our suspicions as well. Sounds like you dodged a bullet, Tina — the fruit of your loins almost got fired, Palin-style.

• Conan O’Brien [NBC]