And the SNL cameos keep coming: Tonight's "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday" featured returning alumnus Will Ferrell in his signature role as George W.Bush.
The half-hour prime-time version of SNL ends its short run — just three weeks — as the campaign draws to a close (and, more importantly, as mutliple-Emmy winner "30 Rock" returns triumphantly to NBC's Thursday-night lineup.
The show opened with Ferrel-as-Bush addressing the nation, first on the economy ("Hello, my fellow Americans. I have chosen to schedule this impromptu address at night because quite frankly every time I speak during the day, the Stock Market goes in the crapper. So, sorry, Asian markets. You take the hit on this one") and then on the 2008 campaign ("I come to you tonight in the midst of a very important election between two very qualified candidates: the hot lady and the Tiger Woods guy.").
But the real fun, of course, was in Tina Fey's return to yet again reprise her turn as Sarah Palin, in what has proved to be the comedic gift that keeps on giving (and giving and giving). Seeing those two political send-ups together on-screen was great fun (and the dialogue yielded two great lines: (1) Bush on looking for John McCain so he could endorse him: " George Bush always finds his man save for one huge exception" and (2) Fey as Palin: "I like to think I'm one part practiced folksy , one part sassy and a little dash of high-school bitchy."
FEY AS PALIN - "You know, John McCain and I have been so busy travelin' around this great country of ours talkin' about change and energy independence and William Ayers, and doin' a little shoppin', but unfortunately Senator McCain, upon hearing you wanted to give him a super public endorsement, cannot be found. He was last seen travelin' on foot through the Adirondacks. But my husband and two of his drinkin' buddies are in pursuit on snowmachines.
FERRELL AS BUSH - "Well, We'll smoke him out. George Bush always finds his man save for one huge exception."
Fey as Palin: "I like to think I'm one part practiced folksy , one part sassy and a little dash of high-school bitchy."
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