SNL's Presidential Bash: Palin, Edwards, Biden, McCain And More (VIDEO)

"Saturday Night Live" had a Monday night, Election Eve special Presidential Bash. All the candidates stopped by, from the real Sarah Palin and John McCain to Fred Armisen's Obama Amy Poehler's Hillary Clinton (it was pretaped).

Below are clips of each candidate's appearance.

Will Forte's John Edwards stopped by to explain his affair and possible love child:

Amy Poehler's Hillary Clinton was the host, talking about her Obama support and talked 2012:

The real, not Tina Fey Sarah Palin delivered a message, and talked about how SNL made fun of her:

Fred Armisen's Obama and Darrell Hammonds' Chris Matthews came together, with Matthews telling Obama just how much he loved his speech (it involves masturbation):

The real John McCain's message:

And Jason Sudeikis' Joe Biden:

And a montage of great SNL election moments, introduced by Obama and McCain:

Comments

[thundermummy]

Holy Crap. Palin is creepy. She would have been funny if you got the sense that she didn't believe or desire what she was reading off the cue cards. Yikes.

[KindAndThoughtful]

Thank you for this great post and the recap!

http://humorandlaughter.blogspot.com/

[rini]

You know what?

At first the new political slant to SNL made it more relevent and entertaining than it had been in years.

But you know what? Since SNL seems to have become a vehicle for McCain and Palin, over the last few episodes,, I've really lost interest.

[JacquesStraw]

I don't think you can fault SNL for the focus on Palin and McCain... I think they're just happy to have the candidates come on so that they can remain relevant... and clearly the presence of the candidates boosts their ratings (highest ever this past weekend w/ McCain). I have no doubt that they'd have done the same with Obama or Biden, but the democrats (wisely, I think) have avoided SNL... they've got a lead that they're trying to protect.

Conversely, the GOP candidates are pulling out all the stops trying to do something to reverse the trends of the last couple weeks. Palin was trying to humanize herself, something that she failed at, IMO, in both her skits from a couple weeks back and in last night's piece... as others above have said, I believe that was the true Palin--she wasn't folksy, wasn't funny, and was downright chilling! What's most interesting to me about it is that Palin sort of recognizes that she's talking to two different audiences that probably don't have much overlap. So she can safely try to tie Obama to Ayers in her stump speeches to the faithful, then play along with the SNL rap that blasts her for doing that very same thing, seeming to implicitly acknowledge that it's a political play when she's talking to the SNL audience.