Kristen Wiig on SNL

[Chris L]

I'm guessing this is all planting the seeds for a "Mark Wahlberg talks to Sarah Palin" sketch that will shut down the entire internet.

Hey, I sorta called this!  I was even right about it shutting down the internet, I'm posting this on the spare. 

[Regular Joe]

I'm guessing this is all planting the seeds for a "Mark Wahlberg talks to Sarah Palin" sketch that will shut down the entire internet.

Hey, I sorta called this!  I was even right about it shutting down the internet, I'm posting this on the spare. 

Not even sorta, you fully called this! Your prophecy was the first thing I thought of and I laughed so hard. Own your abilities you Nostragenius!

[Sarah]

I'm guessing this is all planting the seeds for a "Mark Wahlberg talks to Sarah Palin" sketch that will shut down the entire internet.

Hey, I sorta called this!  I was even right about it shutting down the internet, I'm posting this on the spare. 

Yup, you were right, Chris L.  Yet I still think Mark Wahlberg is an ass and suspect he's an anti-Semite.

[cutout]

Not to mention anti-Asian.

http://www.modelminority.com/article225.html

[Sarah]

That's the easy one.  I was extrapolating.

[cutout]

I actually hadn't read about it til this week. Depressing to know some guy is walking around with one eye because of that thug.

[Chris L]

That opening sketch was like an awkward collision of WWE-like storylines.  They were right in the middle of the inevitably depressing Fey/Palin payoff when they seemed to decide "HOLD ON, PALIN, we can't contain this Wahlberg-Samberg fued any longer! You probably have no idea what this is, but just hang back a minute!"   And the follow-up Wahlberg sketch was just a tragic excuse for him to plug his new movie that tainted the modest pleasures of Samberg's earlier creation.  Even the donkey was embarassed.  

[senorcorazon]

Even the donkey was embarassed.  

Top notch, sir.

[wwwes]

I thought the Wahlberg bit was pleasantly amusing. The entire "controversy" was so absurd anyway that the settlement for it was just silly.

Who else thought that Sarah Palin was offered the chance to do that rap and turned it down? You can always tell when a guest or host is too insecure to get their hands a little dirty. Had she done it (even badly), she would have been guaranteed a ton of press coverage and a bump in the polls.

[daveB from Oakland]

Who else thought that Sarah Palin was offered the chance to do that rap and turned it down? You can always tell when a guest or host is too insecure to get their hands a little dirty. Had she done it (even badly), she would have been guaranteed a ton of press coverage and a bump in the polls.

She's so lame. It was her campaign that made all the noise about getting her on the show. Then when she gets on, she lets everybody else around her do the heavy lifting. Her contribution to the show was minimal ... a lot of non-talented sports and political figures have appeared on SNL, but they usually try harder than she tried.

She really is GW Bush in drag. She follows Bush's playbook:  Seek situations where you can get maximum glory from minimum input. And try to control those situations so that blame can be deflected to everyone else besides yourself if anything goes wrong.

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Yeah, what, she just sat there while Amy Poehler did a big, dumb rap?  The whole thing was rather surreal.  Which is kind of funny, in a completely different Monty Python sort of way.

(I mean, the rap itself was funny, Palin herself was just kind of a weird drag on the whole thing.)

[samir]

I've been trying to bring back "raising the roof" for years, and after seeing Mrs. Palin do it last night, my efforts are, like global economic stability and the Foo Fighters, currently on indefinite hiatus.

[masterofsparks]

In her defense, she probably didn't have a lot of time to be there to show up and rehearse the sketches. Since she's in the middle of a campaign, her schedule probably didn't allow much more than to show up and sit there.

Oh, and did I mention that I like her because she's a normal schmuck just like me and that she's hot?

Who else thought that Sarah Palin was offered the chance to do that rap and turned it down? You can always tell when a guest or host is too insecure to get their hands a little dirty. Had she done it (even badly), she would have been guaranteed a ton of press coverage and a bump in the polls.

She's so lame. It was her campaign that made all the noise about getting her on the show. Then when she gets on, she lets everybody else around her do the heavy lifting. Her contribution to the show was minimal ... a lot of non-talented sports and political figures have appeared on SNL, but they usually try harder than she tried.

She really is GW Bush in drag. She follows Bush's playbook:  Seek situations where you can get maximum glory from minimum input. And try to control those situations so that blame can be deflected to everyone else besides yourself if anything goes wrong.

[Andy]

you know my favorite sketch?  The one where Wiig used her subtle comedic styling to show how hard it was for her character to keep a secret.

[AllisonLeGnome]

you know my favorite sketch?  The one where Wiig used her subtle comedic styling to show how hard it was for her character to keep a secret.

Most of the show was pretty bad, but that sketch was the only thing that could be accurately described as "painful."