My Name is Tina Fey and I Approved This Ad

Medium Shot of Tina Fey in full Sarah Palin costume sitting behind a large executive desk with a Vice-Presidential seal attached, American, Confederate and Alaska Independence flags in the background, plastic Jesus on the desk. Through the monologue, the camera slowly zooms in until Tina is in close-up by the end.

Tina: My name is Tina Fey, and tonight I'm announcing my endorsement of John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Does that mean I believe McCain and Palin are the best candidates for the country? Not on your life.

Does that mean McCain and Palin are the best candidates for me, Tina Fey? You can bet your boodies!

The economy may be going into the crapper, McCain and Palin may not have a clue what to do about it, and lots of you out there may end up losing your jobs and your homes.

But why should I care? Personally, I'll be in hog heaven, with or without lipstick (and yes, the pig reference is meant for you, Sarah, since it will all be because of you.)

My price will quadruple. I'll be selling out arenas from Bangor to Fairbanks with my Sarah impersonation act. They'll even have to build me my own theater in Vegas like Cher.

The Republicans believe that the best thing for the country is to get the government out of the way of the free market and let us each pursue our own enlightened self-interest. Well, I'll be pursuing mine, Jack! I won't be sticking out my fingers for no stinking government handouts.

While you all lose your homes, I'll be using my newfound cash to buy them up at foreclosure sales from bankrupt banks, hiring you for minimum wage to slap on a new coat of paint, and flipping them at a profit.

And if McCain should kick the bucket and Sarah makes it all the way to the White House from the VP Mansion at Naval Observatory where she'll be keeping tabs on the Russkis from her telescope, well, then the skies the limit for me.

So you all may be screwed, but what's it to me? I'll be too busy drinking champagne and eating caviar. After all, according to the Republicans, isn't that the American way?

Cut to close-up of Tina, now out of costume appearing as herself:
Tina: My name is Tina Fey, and I approved this ad.

Fade to new campaign poster with picture of Tina as Sarah waving to a crowd and the new logo:
"MCCAIN/PALIN
PUTTING ME FIRST!"

Comments

[GiggidyGeshmoygen]

"I want to be done playing this lady (Sarah Palin) Nov. 5," said Tina Fey as she celebrated her "30 Rock" Emmy triple play. "So if anybody can help me be done playing this lady Nov. 5, that would be good for me."

let's all work hard for the next 6 weeks to make sure Tina gets her wish --

that would be good for you, me and everyone in America and around the world --

we need a man of peace and wisdom in the White House --

pray to the one good lord of us all that the criminal Bush doesn't start killing people somewhere new around the last week of October in order to influence and even possibly derail the voting process ---

we don't need another man of war and criminal recklessness stealing another election ...............

[LiarLiarIraqsOnFire]

I'd chip in to help produce that ad.

[LateDave]

Okay, now I'm confused. Out of nine comments, two *didn't get the joke* and three were chivvies to explain that, yes, it *was* a joke. Folks, we've gotta get cool with Tina Fey being a satirist and SNL being a humor show.

Satire. That's when you say something really serious but awful, a recognizable exaggeration--to some extent--you hope!--of a point of view with which you actually disagree. Dennis Miller is not a satirist any more, for example, although he used to be. I try to be a satirist, but it comes out as bitter bitching, which isn't funny, unlike real satire. Mort Sahl. Lenny Bruce. Satire does require an audience that is not humor impaired, however.

Think Colbert. Think the Republican gullibles that accepted invitations to the Report because they *and* their handlers failed to recognize that what he was saying was bizarre and degraded and unAmerican, because what he was saying is what they really believe.

[TroubleNYC]

Funny!

[TrooAmerican]

Thats not satire, its what he'd like to see put in an ad.
me too!

[ScienceLady]

This Palin thing is a bonus for Tina Fey. She has already earned her place as a great comedian, writer and actor. The Palin thing is just gravy. And I hope she reaps all the profits she can by continuing to expose the incredibly sad state of our government, and the politicians who want to run it. Same goes to Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, and their respective casts and writers.

[evillager]

Is this post saying that Tina Fey is some kind of shill for McCain because she did a dead-on Palin impersonation on a comedy show? And that she's bad for impersonating her? This is utterly bizarre. Was Will Ferrell a Bush supporter because he did a solid George W. impression?

[gretchenart]

evilager--you need to take humor 101. This is quite good satire of the Republican platform taking off from Tina Fey's spot on take of Sarah Palin! You totally failed to understand the irony!!

[mmogu77]

Lighten up. This is made up satire. It's not meant to imply that Tina Fey really support McCain/Palin. It's using Tina Fey to show how dangerous McCain/Palin's campaign is.

[dogman44]

I've always liked Tina Fey. The kind of person I'd like to have a beer with. I can't believe
she said those things. What an uncaring mercenary. Bad Tina Fey. Bad

[Dannydel]

Yes, the truth does hurt. She was only attempting to fight idiocy with humor...lighten up.

[blp58]

Me thinks you don't understand satire. Or maybe I'm not understanding you?