2:50AM Defamer Hollywood | When we mused last week that
this 2004 cover of Life was the closest we’d ever get to our dream of seeing Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin, we thought we were speaking practically. After all,
Saturday Night Live already has at least two performers capable of the role (the Palin-resembling Casey Wilson and the
Phelps-derobing Kristen Wiig), and Fey’s hands are too tied as a
full-time Baldwin wrangler for her to keep making cameo appearances at her old stomping grounds. Today, though, we stumbled on this
Vulture interview with 24-year-old
SNL scribe Simon Rich (son of
NY Times political columnist Frank Rich), and while the writer is perfectly chatty about most matters, he clams up provocatively when asked about rumours that Fey might return to
SNL for this Saturday’s season premiere:
