On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:30 PM, David Bruggeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > She also sits in toward the end of Update, and again, she's okay, the > material's kind of funny, and she manages to come off a good sport.
I'm not sure what it means to say that she was okay - in both the open and the Update bit all she really does is stand by and let the SNL cast do material in front of her. I guess that does show that she is a good sport to an extent, though not in say, Janet Reno terms. She is real comfortable in these kinds of settings, which is such a contrast from her presence when answering questions. If I had only seen her in this context I guess I would see her as somewhat likable, though I could do without the white girl chair dancing. I was pretty sure she was not going to play along directly with very much in the way of self-parody, not because she doesn't have a sense of humor (she might) but because that is not the kind of humor that goes over with the kind of people who like her. But I do see now the reason why they wanted her to do this - it will give moderate republicans who still are looking for a reason to tolerate her a chance to say that she made fun of herself when she really didn't, while still allowing her to go before the true believers and take a condescending tone. I still think she should have held out for something more biting towards the liberal elite than a stale Steven Baldwin joke, but maybe she wanted to make sure she didn't come off as strident. I wonder if there is any truth underneath the joke that Palin refused to do prepared material because she thought it was unfair or beneath her - they did repeat it twice. Probably not, though it is not impossible they pitched her a few things that she refused and this was the best they could come up with. In the end SNL clearly was hoping mainly to use the extra attention to pump up 30 Rock, and that seemed to be all they really cared about. As I suspected, Tina Fey may have gone to the well once to many times - and it really wasn't even necessary, since they were only on screen together for a second (I had to freeze my TiVo to get a look at the two of them side by side). While Fey is clearly the hottie and Palin the nottie, it does confirm that the Governor does sport the primo rack. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
