NBC

For the past several weeks, Tina Fey has helped lead SNL to a creative and ratings resurgence with her freakishly spot-on impression of VP hopeful, Sarah Palin. Now, according to reports, there is serious talk in the McCain camp of preparing a response. One possibility? Palin may appear on Saturday Night Live, not as herself, but as her doppelganger, Tina Fey.

Word is that Palin may be doing a spoof of Fey’s American Express commercial, either on the next new Saturday broadcast airing on October 18, or the on one of the new SNL Weekend Update Thursdays. Ordinarily, I’m all for politicians appearing as themselves; I thought it was great that John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton all appeared on SNL during the primary season. However, I can’t muster the same excitement over a possible Palin appearance, probably since, unlike the other three, she’s just so damn unlikeable.

Read the rest of this entry »