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Who’s Abandoning Twitter?
2:11AM Ryan Tate | Celebrity Twittering seems to be at an all-time high, which means it’s time to brace for the inevitable comedown, when the fickle famous give up microblogging forever. Oprah Winfrey, ever the trend setter, is leading the charge. More »
Boffo ‘B.O.’ Shows Coin-Raising Legs Despite Hicks’ Crix
3:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Kudos must be extended to tyro presidential helmer Barack Obama, whose record $US150 million fundraising haul in September put him over the $US600 million mark and finally allowed his campaign to overcome Titanic’s heretofore-insurmountable domestic gross. 23/6 envisions the Variety ad announcing the whammo development; now, the Obama/Biden ticket must hope that with two weeks until the election, no iceberg is in sight (still, he’ll never let go, Joe… he’ll never let go). Obama “King of the world!” Makes more money than “Titanic”! [23/6] More »
Watch Joe Biden Dunk Elaine On America’s #1 Married-Lesbian Talk Show
7:32AM Kyle Buchanan | We’re not exactly sure when Ellen took a complete detour into surreality, but it might have happened on today’s show, when Ellen DeGeneres asked vice presidential nominee Joe Biden to perform the charity-inspired task of throwing balls at a dunk tank. And who would be sitting in said tank, ready to be pitched into the cold water below should one of Biden’s balls hit the target? Seinfeld actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, because why not. More »
Doggone It, Sarah Palin Wants an ‘SNL’ Cameo Of Her Own
6:20AM Kyle Buchanan | Appearing in the flesh on Saturday Night Live is a time-honored ritual for many political names, including the three biggest of this past election cycle: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have both put in cold opening cameos, while John McCain actually hosted SNL in 2002. Still, for all the mileage that the show has wrung out of Sarah Palin’s vice presidential candidacy, Palin herself has yet to appear on the show — though according to the Chicago Sun Times, that may change very soon. In fact, sources in the McCain camp say that they have a very specific idea in mind to help Palin avenge herself upon the fired, lifeless body of her nemesis, Tina Fey: More »
‘SNL’ Will Have Its Reward In Heaven After This Sarah Palin Debate Skit
2:26PM Kyle Buchanan | With less than a month left to go in this presidential election, Saturday Night Live expands its resurgent political brand into special Thursday episodes starting this week, though it’s hard to see how they could possibly outdo the trilogy of Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin appearances that continued into last night’s episode. Spoofing the mega-rated vice presidential debate, Fey joined Jason Sudeikis as Joe Biden and the previously-rumored Queen Latifah as moderator Gwen Ifill for a blockbuster, near-twelve minute sketch that left no participant unscathed. Still, despite the skit’s jabs at Biden and Ifill, this was, as ever, Fey’s moment, and she delivered her most cutting performance yet. Do we have video of the sketch after the jump? Doggone it, you betcha:
10:00AM Kyle Buchanan | You Betcha! Sarah Palin isn’t simply ratings gold when Tina Fey is playing her. The vice presidential debate last night was the most-watched VP matchup ever, even surpassing by 33% the Obama/McCain debate from last week. According to THR, 69,989,000 viewers tuned in, which makes it the biggest debate audience since 1992, when Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ross Perot all faced off. Palin has since had all three men fired. [THR] More »
How ‘SNL’ Plans to Cover Last Night’s Debate (Without Having to Actually Hire a Black Woman)
3:50AM Kyle Buchanan | Though pundits like Time’s Mark Halperin are claiming that last night’s vice presidential debate left Saturday Night Live little to parody (really?), it’s hard to imagine that SNL would leave its ratings on the table by ignoring what was perhaps the most-anticipated Sarah Palin event of the entire election year. Now, according to EW’s Michael Ausiello, SNL does indeed plan to cover the debate, which leaves it with one problem: the moderator, Gwen Ifill, was a black woman, and SNL still has none in its cast. It’s the same problem the variety show has run into when covering Michelle Obama, and just as rumours flew that Lorne Michaels had approached Maya Rudolph about that role, SNL has its sights set on a very specific Ifill impersonator who’s not a member of the actual cast: More »
Sarah Palin ‘Tapped’ By John McCain
2:01PM Jess McGuire | Who else watched the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin?
I enjoyed this moment.
“John McCain has already tapped me, and said ‘That’s where I want you, I want you to lead’ and I said ‘I can’t wait to get there, and go to work with ya!’”
Ha! I am childish, I know, but whatever.
When I posted that video on Facebook, my old housemate Born Dancin’ commented ‘I raised an eyebrow during that part of the debate too. But she did use the word ‘tapped’ repeatedly throughout. Subliminal support for oil mining. Her new slogan: “Alaskan oil? I’d tap that!”‘
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Obama Loves Fey and Armisen on ‘SNL,’ Biden Totally Jealous
9:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Have you heard? Comedienne Tina Fey has played lady candidate Sarah Palin on the tee-vee! Twice! So completely has Fey-as-Palin penetrated the pop culture landscape that Barack Obama found himself on Entertainment Tonight, grilled by Mary Hart not on the economic collapse but on the one issue most important to voters: what does he think of Fey’s Palin impression? Obama notes the resemblance is “remarkable” and even heaps praise on Saturday Night Live player Fred Armisen’s Obama performance — at which point vice presidential candidate Joe Biden pipes up to remind America that he, too, was impersonated on SNL once! More »
