On a scale of 1 to 10, how awesome was the Tina Fey-as-Palin, Amy Poehler-as-Clinton opening of Saturday Night Live‘s season premiere, embedded below? (10.)How awesome was the rest of the show? (You tell me. I found myself fast-forwarding. A lot.)How worried were you that Lil Wayne’s pants were going to fall down? (7. It was, however, a 10 at the MTV Video Music Awards.)
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Absolutely hated the show, except for Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin (which she nailed). We ended up turning on Friends re-runs, and turning off the crap skits that Saturday Night Live was attempting to make funny.
Yeah, the opening was greatness, but the rest was downright awful. Love ya, Michael Phelps, but please don’t ever attempt to act again. It didn’t help that they recreated the Peyton Manning dancing sketch — that was a lot of fun the first time. Don’t try to recreate it with someone less entertaining.
But even if Phelps wasn’t on there, it was still an extremely weak season premiere. That restaurant sketch with the new guy constantly saying “pepper” was painfully bad. Come on, SNL, you can do much better.
I did not watch the show so I can’t comment on the rest but the opening was hilarious – and on the mark.
Intro was hilarious. I kept cringing throughout the rest, and flipping over to watch other things. I’d come back to see if it still sucked, and yes, it still sucked. I did catch the end of the Quiz Bowl between the home-schooled FLDS and public school kids, and that seemed like it was funny (from what I saw). The rest…blew. And yes, Michael Phelps, you’re a nice guy and a great athlete, but please stick to swimming.
Great opening. A few good moments like the T-mobile commercial. But the rest was pretty bad.
The intro was very funny and the t-mobile was good, but the rest was just not funny at all. Could have been ALOT better
I give Tina’s Sarah a 12! She absolutely nailed it. Hysterical!
The rest absolutely sucked. What happened to the McCain/Obama sketch?
I was very disappointed that Obama backed out of the show too.
Saturday Night Live?
It’s still on?
Why?
Tina Fey nailed it as all 30 Rock fans knew she would!
Heah John McCain – I want to suggest you switch Palin for Fey – Tina Fey I think would be a much better choice! Think of it this way – if you want a co-runner with little Washington experience – Fey would be a better choice. Fey would be great as entertainment at state dinners – she has funnier friends – and she is down with babies – Just watch Baby’s Momma! Fey for Vice President !!
Great intro. Tina was a sure clone. Fact is that I wasn’t sure if it was Tina or Sarah. I have watched SNL since day one. I thought perhaps I was getting, but this wshow was terrible.
Palin has now been fully subsumed. A few years from now, we won’t even remember who she was without first thinking of Fey’s ripping satire. And Phelps will be, “Oh, right, the guy who won all the swimming medals. So whatever happened to Mark Spitz?”
While the intro was very funny, the rest of the show is typical SNL-god-awful.
Also, it’s pretty lame that SNL is going to write Palin as another “stupid, religous, nut-job.” I mean they’ve only done that since Gerald Ford.
And I wholly anticipate all of the people who will say, “But she is a stupid religious nut-job!! Hee-Hee-Hee, I’m so clever.”
Tina fey ROCKED IT as that dimwit Palin. The rest was bland.
you guys are idiots. the opening wasn’t about tina fey coming back as Palin or whatever else you might think it is. it was commentary about our election in satire. and it was important. “I invite the media to grow a pair, and if they won’t, then they can borrow mine” That’s SNL saying it right there