This has been another in the series Short Answers to Really Easy Questions.

"You'd better get this straight. Wise up before it's too late." -- Sister Sledge

"A couple of thoughts going in, and I admit the first is probably only me being a little over the top as a journalist trained in and committed to a belief that our first job is to confirm information before we present it as true to the public."

Z on TV: the Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik on who's going to appear on the show (Palin?)

Thanks, David, we like the standard of confirming information before it's presented as true to the public. But that's just us at Correntewire.

it's fey not palin

Alec Baldwin telling Palin directly his complaints--"that horrible woman"

and said he didn't want Tina even playing that horrible woman.

comment on her hotness, yuck.

Much less watch sports too?

around Palin...

Quick take away: Ummmm...

If this is the only time Palin appears, I'm not very impressed with the SNL debate (really a press conference) skit. Her appearance was brief and all about her being a good sport while people made fun of her and said bad things about her--although Baldwin making nice felt kinda weird in view of what he's said, for example: "Palin is Bush...Palin looks a lot like a really attractive TV star I know. Underneath all the Tina, she's George." And then he goes on SNL (remember he's not SNL staff) and complains about her kinda lamely and then lavishly compliments her, takes her arm and goes off with her? Is that a Village happy ending or what?

Was it ever promoted as a debate? I don't remember hearing that. Anyway, the appearance was awkward. Palin saying that "Stephen is her favorite Baldwin" and then Alec remarking about how much hotter she is in person. Mark Wahlberg makes an appearance during the skit. Palin's just standing there awkwardly as Lorne and Mark talk amongst themselves.

Lame. Weird.

The only good part was when Alec runs in whispering to Tina and Tina says "the real one?"

Quick, someone tell me the Village "novel" about this!!
SNL played Palin's scripted criticism of Fey's impersonation as 'not substantive enough' for laughs. But it's certainly true that Fey would be funnier if she wrote her own lines based on the...
whoa Palin on again

seen on SNL...
Palin appeared on Weekend Update and decided "not to do" a piece they had prepared for her, so Poehler did it.

with Poehler doing Palin's part...

shot the moose, had a fake Todd Palin appear in a snow mobile suit, and criticized McCain in the rap--his smile anyway.
Poehler was really good.

at the end she like half applauded and then gave this shake of her head with a half smile. Wow the real VP candidate was there during the rap.
Definite coolness points.
You can watch it now at NBC.com, they just said.

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That rap was crap. Again, Palin could have phoned her appearance in. She really served no purpose by being on SNL tonight. ...
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(wait, did they pre-write this? The rap was less than 28 min. ago...I'll see if I can check.)

But not nearly by enough to call it a success. It's not going to hurt her, but it's not going to help her, either.

I thought they pulled it off.

the last skit, because of THE GAME, but the scene was a duplicate of her performance as VP in the debates, totally rote.

Remember Toobin was it got caught doing that during one of the debates?

and back-up singing Eskimos is the same as being in a debate with Joe Biden?

i love her music : >

CNN just showed a tiny clip of the press conf thing--stupid.

She was solid, I thought, showed her voice. Although it's better than it once was, that whole limited sound stage/can't hear problem, remember?--listening live at SNL you still lose some of the depth--but she was good, one of the better performances.

the rap?

Did they use the SNL press conference to pick on Palin? There was commentary last night about that at various sites.

Our world: the entertainment news is the news--and was it about the fictional press conference, the content of the skit? Don't get me wrong, I think it's important--and SNL's fictional, satirical content has helped drive the criticism of the campaigns in some good ways--but celebrity cameos didn't used to be the 'breaking news' which was reserved for, uh, I dunno--real life? Are we on the cutting edge of the news then--first time live blogging both skits? Heh.

If you haven't seen them yet.

Best SNL audience in 14 years: they're predicting 17 million for final numbers.