Wow - that Palin SNL performance fell FLAT

[Tallison]

She's either has no talent for comedy or completely unable to make fun of herself.

For four full minutes, she delivered punch lines with an ominous grimace, to tepid audience tittering.

Really uncomfortable...

[CakeGrrl]

1. Goes to show you can't be good at hate speech AND comedy...n/t

[Naturyl]

2. Yeah, seriously creepy.

Not funny at all - in my household, we were like "wtf?"

[godai]

3. She was on again? Live? n/t

[Tallison]

Looks like it was taped either earlier today

or yesterday. It was recent, though...

[godai]

16. Thanks...They're sure playing the SNL card...Palin 2012, I guess. n/t

[Tallison]

33. Link here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3T2Tj-qFrk

[beac]

55. Gah. Creepy, weird and unfunny.

Another pathetic showing by Miss Wasilla.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Part of the problem is that she has that horrendous screeching voice.

I could never sit thru 4 minutes of her talking...I switched to CSPAN

[Athens30603]

30. That's a pretty common Alaskan accent. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

36. Not that common.

I've lived here for 33 years, and the only people who have that accent that I've heard are certain descendants of early Minnesotan homesteaders who live in the Mat-Su Valley.

Sarah isn't the descendant of a homesteader so she probably picked it up from someone who is -- although the accent has been much more pronounced down there than we ever heard it here.

In other words -- an affectation.

[Athens30603]

37. Perhaps. I ghuess her voice just doesn't...

Bug me the same way it bugs other people. I also like the high-n-whiny New York Jewish mother in law voice and the gum-smackin' New Jersey accent. I guess I just like voices others find irritating.

[mikiturner]

5. Can someone fill us in on the details?

What happened?

[Tallison]

20. She gave some seated speech about how

well she could take a joke, how her impersonation had rescued the show from oblivion, and how she would refrain from censoring the show when she's sworn in on Jan 20th. She said it through clenched teeth with a real ominous expression, and I can only guess at the punch lines, because the audience was totally lost.

McCain was funny and relaxed. Palin was just awful and embarrassing.

You've gotta' see the clip - it may be at SNL's site by now....

[hlthe2b]

6. We are just 16 minutes into it on Mountain Zone... Question...?

is it all pretty much old footage from previous skits or is there something new? I have other things to do if it is not worth watching... Thanks for the info...

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. Is Amy Poehler there?

If so, I'm guessing it's a compilation of reruns, since she had her baby last week and already announced she wouldn't be back after that.

[rebel with a cause]

48. She came back for this because some of her bits are new.

Fey, Will Farrell, and a few others have new bits also.

[Tallison]

23. There's two new clips - one with McCain and the 2nd with Palin

Palin appears about an hour and fifteen minutes in.

It's definitely worth checking SNL's homepage out in a bit to see. Definitely not something they're going to rerun in future 'best of' bashes. She looked tense and irritable and totally at odds with the spirit of the exercise, which is, of course, self-deprecation. McCain's clearly good at it, but Palin looked like she was fighting the spirit for the four entire minutes she read her lines. The audience was lost.

[hlthe2b]

42. thanks... I hear they are just now releasing a "summary" of Palin's

medical history--a SUMMARY :eyes:

Guess they not only wanted to avoid press questions prior to the election, but also the chance that SNL would take on this issue....

[Tallison]

34. Link here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3T2Tj-qFrk

[hlthe2b]

43. Thanks! I'll check it out...

[hlthe2b]

44. Wow...how not funny... She is a vile Cheney replacement...

Good heavens.. If there are any sane people still trying to decide, please let them watch that.... I dare say she would announce an edict for mass murder of our citizens with the same "zeal." Creepy, is right.

[rebel with a cause]

49. For me it was two hours wasted.

More pro mccain/palin than anything as far as I was concerned. I don't think I can ever watch SNL again. Especially if something happens and Barack loses. I don't know, but that is the way I felt about it. I hated it.

[FVZA_Colonel]

7. Didn't McCain show up too?

Eh, at this point it'll have even less impact than Saturday's, which itself had basically none.

[Tallison]

8. He was kind of funny and relaxed

...so I can recognize a good job in an opponent.

She, however, was just awful.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. As Repukes are wont to do, she has been made the scapegoat for the

good-ole-boyz club that has completely screwed their own party and this nation. It is incredibly maddening.

[ErinBerin84]

11. wait, they were on again? New skits?

[NYC Liberal]

13. Presidential Bash. I had set it to DVR but completely forgot lol!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

14. NBC right now in AZ

[Tallison]

28. Two new bits McCain and Palin taped specifically for tonight's special

McCain's was funny; Palin's was awful, awful, awful!

[Tallison]

35. Link right here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3T2Tj-qFrk

[bklyncowgirl]

12. Oh that was the real one? I thought Tina Fey had a bad night.

I noticed she seemed to lose her folksy accent at the end.

[Tallison]

25. You thought that was Tina?

The one in which she went on about not censoring the show when she's sworn in as VP?

Palin (the real one) was so bad in it I now wonder if she even has a future in talk show hosting...

[Vote2008]

15. I didn't believe this thread so just played it from the DVR and it was horrible!

[Ichingcarpenter]

17. All these skits were taped the last time they appeared on the show

[Tallison]

26. But two hadn't been aired until tonight

Palin and McCain's bits were taped specifically for tonight's special.

[NRaleighLiberal]

18. Palin laid a huge egg. Embarrassing, unfunny, pathetic.

[mikiturner]

21. How about some details!

Please!

[Tallison]

31. Link just came up on you tube...

Just watched it again, and, yep, it's that bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3T2Tj-qFrk

[Phx_Dem]

19. It sounded too much like she was serious; what she was talking about

was the same anti-Constitution, civil-right revoking shit we've seen from Bush/Cheney the last 8 years. It was intended to be satirical and funny, but it wasn't. It was too real and it was fucking scary.

SNL isn't stupid. I think they set her up.

John McCain wasn't funny either. He was sad. He sounded like he was begging for votes.

[grace0418]

41. Yeah, when she was threatening to shut down NBC after she's "sworn in as the next

vice president" it sounded all too serious.

[TexasObserver]

46. It was "I'm gonna use government power to get even with NBC"

Assumedly for making her look like the ass she is.

She was not funny, and she did not hide her true feelings. She's a dangerous one, that fascist.

[nannycee]

22. It was a previously unshown skit with Palin...

...talking from a chair....it might have been taped when she did SNL a week ago..it was very flat....not well received...at all....but the bulk of the rest of the show is rerun skits

[justgamma]

24. It sounded more like a real threat

instead of comedy. We've seen how the pukes are and what they are capable of. I wouldn't put it past them.

[Smuckies]

27. Were there nervous laughs?

[Tallison]

29. Very nervous

She delivered through clenched teeth and a real creepy staredown. I had to rewind the DVR to discern the punchlines. The audience was LOST. It was one of those skits, mid-way through, comedians and staff writers start burning in the face wondering what they were thinking...

[chalky]

32. She's so much funnier when she phones it in.

n/t

[mwei924]

38. 2004 Presidential Bash was MUCH better!

They played all the great old-school classics!

[Hamlette]

39. wow, seriously cring inducing. She has no sense of humor

which means she might really be dumb. I've hesitated to say that before but if she didn't get the jokes in that segment, she's not too bright.

[adoraz]

40. It really was awful. Worst part of the show, didn't laugh once. Not just saying this....

because I dislike Palin, it really was that bad.

[Tallison]

45. Yeah, I can concede that McCain seemed relaxed

and self-effacing, and yeah, funny. Palin's skit was objectively cringe-worthy.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

47. Why is there an SNL broadcast on Monday?

[rebel with a cause]

50. To help mccain/palin get more votes tomorrow.

:shrug:

Oh, they even had a new scene where they bashed Edwards. I am surprised the DU is not aflame right now with SNL threads.

[votetastic]

51. I think she was wearing the same outfit as she was during the moose rap

I wonder if this was filmed the same day?

[bushisanidiot]

52. Damn. I had no idea it was going to be on tonight.

:P

[Janice325]

53. Unfunny Palin makes me appreciate the multi-talented, multiple

Emmy Award winner Tina Fey even more than I already did.

[Janice325]

54. Edited 'cause of double post.

Sorry!!!
PS Palin sucked!