SNL: Saturday Night Live

By Matthew Philbin In it, viewers see a family at home as a saccharine-voiced narrator reminiscent of the one from the old “Mr. Bill” skit on “Saturday Night Live,” says, “A family shouldn't have to wait until Sunday to worship the Lord. Now you can go to church every day without leaving your home.”

By Brad Wilmouth Conservative filmmaker John Ziegler has previously demonstrated that some voters mistakenly believe that Palin actually said the words from the Saturday Night Live skit, as shown by his interviews with some Obama voters last year.

By Scott Whitlock PALIN: Funny things. Reality shows. WALTERS: Whether she joins the media or not, Palin, who was mercilessly lampooned during and after the campaign, will be associated with Tina Fey's iconic impersonation of her on Saturday Night Live. Did her impersonation of you harm you?

By Jeff Poor In addition to the Van Jones and NEA stories, Beck went through several other storylines his show broke open in its nearly 11-month history - former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn expressing her admiration for Mao Tse Tung, ACORN corruption and the sway the Service Empl...

By Scott Whitlock KATE SNOW: In her book, Palin says top aide Steve Schmidt yelled at her over the phone. "The force of his screaming blew my hair back. How could anyone be so stupid?" But, staffers say there was no yelling, just an e-mail saying "Who set this up? Are you kidding me?" And then there's Saturday Nig...

By Noel Sheppard In its opening sketch last night, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" mocked Vice President Joe Biden and healthcare reform. With the President out of the country for a week, Biden, played by Jason Sudeikis, has picked the lock on the Oval Office in order to get something big done while Obama is gon...

By Noel Sheppard Saturday Night Live" in its recent installment took shots at the Fox News Channel for what it saw as an amazingly one-sided, anti-Obama take on Tuesday's election results. On screen at that moment was a picture of President Obama above a graphic which read, "End Of An Era."

By Tim Graham This month, it was O’Brien’s turn against NBA legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Michael McKean, of "Spinal Tap," "Laverne & Shirley" and "Saturday Night Live." McKean, a previous winner, ended with $24,800, followed by Abdul Jabbar with $8,800 and O'Brien with $6,200.

By Brent Bozell But the Left – including many in the "news" media -- is so blinded by its hatred of Rush Limbaugh that it will accept any accusation as authentic, and the more salacious, the better. Start with CNN. This network is so prideful of its professionalism that it fact-checks comedy skits on "Saturd...

By Jeff Poor The three network news is divisions can't find a flaw in this guy. Supposed comedians are like, ‘There's nothing funny to say about him, not a single funny thing to say - not one. You notice on ‘Saturday Night Live' the guy doesn't do anything except play him straight. ‘Hey, you know I'm just try...

By NB Staff In addition to this public call to action, Mr. Bozell overnighted letters to CNN President Jonathan Klein and MSNBC President Phil Griffin to ensure both took the matter seriously. Both CNN and MSNBC failed to respond appropriately.

By Tom Blumer The Palin comparison is useful, though. If Sarahcuda had said something as comically insipid as “When history calls, history calls,” Tina Fey would have an entire skit built around it on SNL this week. As it is, our moronic media’s treating it as some sort of faux-profound rendezvous with d...

By Brad Wilmouth MICHELLE OBAMA: Well, Big Bird. OBAMA: No, Big Bird, I'm not. OBAMA: I'm sure, Big Bird. O'REILLY: Don't – me? I'm just asking, Chris. O'REILLY: So what we are learning is that CNN is analyzing Saturday Night Live. GUTFELD: It was actually funnier than a Saturday Night Live skit.

By Noel Sheppard DUNN: Well, you know, Howie, President Obama, he did "The Factor." He did "O'Reilly." KURTZ: Chris Wallace. Horrors. Of course, on a related humorous note, the network she was praising -- CNN -- last week actually spent time fact-checking a "Saturday Night Live" routine.  KURTZ: OK.

By Jeff Poor And I don't think it's necessarily particularly good news for President Obama because it raises all those questions about the celebrity. Remember John McCain's ad - where is the substance, what's he actually done? He was being lampooned on ‘Saturday Night Live' just a few weeks ago for no...

By Matthew Balan The Situation Room on CNN’s “fact checking” of Saturday Night Live’s skit from October 3, which made fun of President Obama as a “do-nothing,” has generated criticism, according to the TVNewser blog on Wednesday. Meanwhile, CNN’s sister network, CNN International, has been airing a “g...

By Kathleen McKinley Can one even imagine CNN fact checking any of the skits SNL on President Bush or Sarah Palin?? Heaven forbid SNL finally make fun of President Obama. CNN couldn't help themselves. They actually fact checked the jokes. 

By Tim Graham McKINNON: Well, I was just, I was raising the question that Chris brought up – RATIGAN: I don't care what you were doing. You’re a guest on the show here. You can either answer my questions and participate in the dialogue, or you can come back another time. What do you want to do?

By Noel Sheppard As a checklist of his agenda items during the campaign appeared on the screen -- global warming, immigration reform, gays in the military, limits on executive powers, torture prosecutions, closing Gitmo, withdrawing from Iraq, improving the status of the fight in Afghanistan, healt...

By Jack Coleman DEVON: Well, as you were saying, the term "rogue", while most people in the Lower 48 I think would associate that term with what you mentioned and also with the Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live "Going Rogue" skit, Alaskans have a deeper understanding and it goes further back.

By Tom Blumer I can't wait to see all of the coverage of Grayson's smear in the supposedly civility-obsessed establishment media. Actually, I can, because I virtually know that I'll have to. I half-expect that the cop-out will be, "Well, our old buddies at the Politico covered it, and they did a fine job,...

By Noel Sheppard Although the opening skit did poke fun at FNC's Glenn Beck, the real joke was that the President, having just done Sunday interviews on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Univision, wanted to "get the healthcare message out to as wide an audience as possible. I don't want to shut anyone out of this debat...

By Brent Bozell But West’s highest-flying flameout came during a 2005 NBC Red Cross fundraising concert special for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Standing next to comedian Mike Myers, West blurted out that "George Bush doesn’t care about black people," and "America is set up to help the poor, black peo...

Even Time Magazine corrected the error last October in "Palin vs. "Palin": When SNL Parody Becomes Campaign Reality." Reporting that Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live provided "a seamless blending of reality and parody," ...

By Kyle Drennen O'DONNELL: Let me ask you, in your documentary you cite examples of media bias by Saturday Night Live, that that's media bias. Aren't those comedians? ZIEGLER: You don't think that Tina Fey had a major impact on that past -- in this past election?

By Lyndsi Thomas MSNBC pop culture columnist Courtney Hazlett on October 6 made sure to note that "Saturday Night Live" is "nonpartisan, too. That's something that a lot of critics are saying, that it's all about Sarah Palin and it's anti-John McCain and they're taking advantage of the McPalin ticket, if...

By Noel Sheppard MICHAEL HILYARD PLAYED BY KENAN THOMPSON: Happy to be here, Keith. AFFLECK: Michael, given the vile nature of his racist tirade, should not Mr. Bush immediately resign? Laughter] AFFLECK: Michael Hilyard of the NAACP, it's always so great. Thanks for your time. Laughter] Laughter]

By Tom Blumer Busybody Keith Olbermann couldn't wait to see what Saturday Night Live was going to portray him. So, says Politico.com's Michael Calderone, he apparently breached the show's (I thought) tight security to find out. Exit question: Is anyone else besides me concerned about an ambush of John...

By Brent Baker Portions of the Monday, October 20 ABC, CBS and NBC stories: CLAIBORNE: But these days, Palin may be a damaged carrier of the McCain message. SNL clip] MITCHELL: Meanwhile, McCain's running mate, fighting the image war, confronted her double on Saturday Night Live... 

By P.J. Gladnick As a former cast member and “Weekend Update” anchor, Chevy Chase knows something about “Saturday Night Live” – and he wasn’t impressed by what he saw this Saturday night, when Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin made a much-hyped appearance.

By Justin McCarthy JOY BEHAR: She tripped all over herself to be on "Saturday Night Live," made her trip to New York. Meanwhile she should be on "Meet the Press." She avoids that like the plague. [applause] But to do a little prompter reading "oh yeah, I’ll do that."

By Scott Whitlock Saturday Night Live" clip] 7:02am ABC GRAPHIC: Obama's Best Weekend Ever? Powell and Donors Boost Obama SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: All I can say is wow. POWELL: I don't believe she's ready to be president of the United States, which is the job of the vice president.

By P.J. Gladnick Whatever your politics, you are rooting for Sarah Palin not to, as Queen Latifah said on Saturday Night Live, "cry, faint, run out of the room or vomit." SARAH PALIN!!! Don't worry, Susan. Someone completely unlike you will be vice president.

By Scott Whitlock SNL clip] CLINTON: You know, I've seen it a few times, and I think, look, they've done a great job. And, sometimes, it's hard to tell, is it really what we're looking at or is it the spoof that "Saturday Night Live" puts on. SNOW: Governor Palin?

By Noel Sheppard Sandler, 77, spoke to The Associated Press in the San Francisco office of his family's charitable foundation the morning after NBC's "Saturday Night Live" broadcast a skit deriding the Sandlers as predatory lenders who had duped unsophisticated borrowers and Wachovia, too. A caption...

By Lyndsi Thomas This continues a trend that was also seen last Monday morning when MSNBC replayed Tina Fey's parody of Palin's interview with Katie Couric seven times while avoiding Saturday Night Live's parody of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

By Warner Todd Huston Kamin paints a future Sarah Palin as a braggart constantly going about loudly proclaiming that she "paved the way for women in the United States of America" even though she "lost" the election for vice president back in 2008. Wasilla, Alaska, October 3, 2024

By Noel Sheppard Here are some of the highlights (video embedded right):After Nancy Pelosi (played by Kristen Wiig) blamed the Bush administration and Republicans for the current financial crisis, President Bush (played by Jason Sudeikis) interrupted: "Wait a minute. Wasn't it my administration th...

By Tim Graham Earlier, historian Michael Beschloss offered several anti-Palin comments. "I think she almost went over the line when she said Biden and Obama, if elected, would wave the white flag of surrender. I thought that was really not of the stature of a potential vice president."

By Brent Baker Harder now to ridicule Palin? On FNC, Chris Wallace ended an interview with former Senator Fred Thompson: It may be harder for Tina Fey to mock her on Saturday Night Live, although, Lord knows, they'll try. Lengthier quotes from the post-VP debate coverage on Thursday night, October 2:

By Kyle Drennen Chen went through each phase, and domino, with financial expert Vera Gibbons. At the end of the segment, Gibbons explained: "It's a domino effect, it all works together." Gibbons then knocked over the giant dominos and declared: "Voila!" Chen replied: "That's depressing." Prior to offer...

By Jacob S. Lybbert On September 19, conservative blogger Jim Treacher wrote the following fictious exchange between "President" Obama and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that seems eerily similar to the one presented on the most recent installment of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" (video embedded right, re...

By Kyle Drennen SMITH: Well, you know, it's interesting, because we talked to Chuck about that. He saw the -- at least the first episode from 'Saturday Night Live' and he said that he thought Tina Fey did a good job. I'm not so sure they would have appreciated this past Saturday night's episode, though.

By Matthew Balan He ended his column by more or less questioning John McCain’s patriotism: "In these times, for John McCain to have chosen this person to be his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible. McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, it is simply not true."

By Lyndsi Thomas WILLIE GEIST: Let's go back to Tina Fey and Sarah Palin. It was just a relentless assault on Sarah Palin to open the show "Saturday Night Live" on Saturday. Just coming off the interview with Katie Couric, the CBS interview this week, they recreated it their way. Amy Poehler as Katie Couric ask...

By Kyle Drennen SMITH: And just in case you didn't get a chance to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live,' Saturday night, take a look at this. AMY POEHLER: You went to the U.N. for the first time, how was that experience? SMITH: Did you watch that 'Saturday Night Live'?

By Kyle Drennen GLOR: The most recent, with Katie Couric, provoked widespread criticism from liberals on the web and a lampooning on 'Saturday Night Live.' TINA FEY: Katie, I'd like to use one of my life lines. AMY POEHLER: You don't have any life lines.

By Geoffrey Dickens BARACK OBAMA: Thank you North Carolina! OBAMA: Thank you Fredericksburg! MITCHELL: McCain on ABC. BEGIN "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" CLIP] TINA FEY AS SARAH PALIN: Katie I'd like to use one of my lifelines. AMY POEHLER AS KATIE COURIC: You don't have any lifelines.