Did you see Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL this weekend? Oh, she killed! She absolutely has the Palin impersonation nailed, especially that grating nasal voice. You can watch it below (good luck connecting; over a million people have watched this video since the weekend, and it's tough getting through). This was a hilarious sketch.
Of course the rest of the season opener of SNL was awful. One of the great mysteries of the universe is how it is that a country of some 350 million people can't produce enough comedy writers to staff a weekly comedy sketch program that's actually, you know, funny. Why is SNL so routinely terrible?
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Tina Fey might as well practice the Sarah Palin routine, because after Sarah is elected VP she will be the President of the U.S. in 2012 and 2016. So Tina will have a job for at least twelve years. Go Sarah Barracuda.
Not really. If she becomes president, America will cease to exist. She will destroy it. Yes, she is that evil and corrupt.
Not really. If she becomes president, America will cease to exist. She will destroy it. Yes, she is that evil and corrupt.
And I know this is true, because all the leftists and the voices in my head told me so. Because all conservatives are liars and evil and corrupt and intent on destroying me and my kind and filling the world with babies who will do their wishes and further destroy my kind.
Whatever happened to the "Revolt of Middle America", "Bocephus Republicans"? I guess Douthat, Frum and the rest have spoken so to hell with all those "hicks" who call into AM talk radio. I mean, they probably all use meth. like Tina Fey said about Wasilians so that explains why they're so stupid that they believe in Palin or a "God who hugs us closer" and causes global warming. What's the name of this blog again?
Does your sister still feel solidarity with a fellow "country girl", or does she too now find her accent "grating"? Fey's concoction was a "killer" version of a third rate fascimile of Frances Macdormand's lutefisk bashing in "Fargo" with a dash of the Superfans thrown in for good measure. "MILF", "FLURG" "Boner Crusher", doubtless Wendell Berry and Russell Kirk would have found it all to be right up there with Chesterton at his most mordant.
With all due respect to you Mr. Dreher: Saint Francisville and and Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College rates with Tina Fey about where kulaks rated with Comrade Trotsky. No amount of truckling to the boho hipsters who be hatin' in the form of Palin bashing or Walker Percyesque libation musings and bon vivantry is going to change that.
As the liberal political commentator and Douthat colleague Jack Beatty observed of Richard Nixon's keen awareness of the sort of rancid East Coast snobbery that is rightly condemned if indulged in by landed upper class Brits. vis a vis Jews and Muslims, "in this regard, he was abidingly right." Wasilians and a hell of a lot of other people who never did give a rat's backside about the cocaine fueled Cultural Marxism emanating from Lorne Michaels' Ministry of Christophobic and Ruralphobic Agitprop, well, in this case they don't need Frum, Douthat and the like around anyhow.
From Michiko Kakutani'S tribute to David Foster Wallace, "An Appreciation: Exuberant Riffs on a Land Run Amok," NYT, 9/15/2008:
"In a kind of aesthetic manifesto, he once wrote that irony and ridicule had become 'agents of a great despair and stasis in U.S. culture' and mourned the loss of engagement with deep moral issues that animated the work of the great 19th-century novelists."
From the Fox News site's article on the show:
Palin, for her part, was amused by Fey's impression of her, especially as she once dressed up as Fey for Halloween.
"She thought it was quite funny, particularly because she once dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween," her spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said, according to CBS News. Fey bears a much-remarked-upon resemblance to Palin, and they wear similar glasses.
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