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mik3capIf SNL had forewent the opening sequence entirely, and just played scrolling text that said:
"The players and writers of Saturday Night Live have decided that we will not be portraying Sarah Palin as a character. Even though Tina Fey looks exactly like her, and we have a decades long tradition of lampooning political figures, we have come to the unanimous conclusion that it would just be TOO EASY to make fun of Sarah Palin. In fact, it would be so simple to mock her that we're afraid it wouldn't actually be funny, and we want to do our best to make you laugh. Additionally, NBC wants to get the most value it can out of its paid writing staff, and we're certain they'd be done writing any Sarah Palin sketch in about five minutes, and then they'd just be sitting around the studio all week eating donuts and playing Solitaire on their laptops. So instead of having a comedic sketch featuring Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, we're going to show you this footage of a chicken playing tic tac toe; we think it may actually be more qualified to be president than Sarah Palin is."
[cue chicken footage]
"The players and writers of Saturday Night Live have decided that we will not be portraying Sarah Palin as a character. Even though Tina Fey looks exactly like her, and we have a decades long tradition of lampooning political figures, we have come to the unanimous conclusion that it would just be TOO EASY to make fun of Sarah Palin. In fact, it would be so simple to mock her that we're afraid it wouldn't actually be funny, and we want to do our best to make you laugh. Additionally, NBC wants to get the most value it can out of its paid writing staff, and we're certain they'd be done writing any Sarah Palin sketch in about five minutes, and then they'd just be sitting around the studio all week eating donuts and playing Solitaire on their laptops. So instead of having a comedic sketch featuring Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, we're going to show you this footage of a chicken playing tic tac toe; we think it may actually be more qualified to be president than Sarah Palin is."
[cue chicken footage]
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on 2008-09-15 12:26 am (UTC)