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:
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