I’ve always wondered how SNL cast members felt about retiring their best caricatures. I, for one, am really stoked that former cast member, Tina Fey is bringing back her Emmy winning Sarah Palin character, if only for one episode.
Fey, who has gone on to starring in Thirty Rock, [which apparently you can’t pay anyone to watch], will be hosting this week and bringing back an old favorite. She no doubt wants to go back to doing something successful.
This also gives SNL a chance to revisit success. It is Sweeps month, so they’re pulling out all the stops. Fey’s Palin character was definitely a favorite, for fans and haters alike; with what Chatterbox Media calls her “twangy Palin voice and over-the top folksy and “mavericky” mannerisms.”
I wasn’t a fan of her as a snarky Weekend Update correspondent. I felt like she constantly had to get her partisan digs in. [Something that hits too close to home for me, perhaps?] No, the Sarah Palin caricature was the gem of her SNL career.
With Palin’s new book and TV show, there will be plenty of material for Fey to work with; plenty of Palin-isms for Fey to mock. There is even talk of having her be a weekly presence. People will continue to laugh at things like her claim that she could see Russia from Alaska.
She will continue to provide them with comic gold, because it is easier to laugh at her than to admit that she might be relevant, with her counter-culture, un-PC ideals.
Things like not aborting your baby with Downs Syndrome and being a Christian who walks the talk.
Fey will have to beef up on her Palin-ese. She admits,
I haven’t been watching her on television lately because I’ve been working on 30 Rock,” Tina Fey said.
But she’s back doing something she’s really good at. You know you’re successful when the object of your jokes thinks they’re funny. Sarah admitted that it was “hilarious.”
In a poll asking if they should bring back a Palin character on SNL, played by cast member Kristen Wiig, people polled responded with a resounding:
“You betcha!”
c. 2010
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