Tina Fey on 2008 Election: "...That election was so civilized, comparatively."
Those simpler times seem like ages, ages ago. 
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Tina Fey Admits She ‘Screwed Up’ With Controversial ‘SNL’ Charlottesville Bit
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tina-fey-admits-she-screwed-up-with-controversial-snl-charlottesville-bit
‘I felt like a gymnast who did a very solid routine and broke her ankle on the landing,’ Fey told David Letterman in a sit-down interview for his Netflix show.
Matt Wilstein
05.04.18 3:00 AM ET
Five months and five episodes into his Netflix interview show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, David Letterman finally welcomed a fellow comedian onto his stage.
Newly crowned Tony Award nominee Tina Fey joined Letterman for a discussion about her career in comedy, from starting out in the Chicago improv scene to becoming the first female head writer of Saturday Night Live, to writing her best-selling memoir Bossypants and her hit Broadway adaptation of Mean Girls.
...............When Letterman suggested that Fey’s impression of Palin “moved the needle” in the 2008 election, she said, “I don’t think it did. But now it seems like such a folksy, simpler time, doesn’t it? That election was so civilized, comparatively.”
Fey said that she and Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler, who all collaborated on those sketches, were “so careful” not to write anything into them that didn’t “believe in.” They weren’t writing the sketches to “convince” anyone of anything, but rather to “observe the truth and say it.”
After just six weeks of playing the vice presidential candidate on SNL, the real Sarah Palin was invited to appear side-by-side with Fey on the show. Fey went to Lorne Michaels and said, “‘Please, I don’t want to do it with her.’ Because I just didn’t feel right about it. And I was like, if I do it, that’s what they’re going to show at the Emmys when I die.”
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