SNL Provides Horrifying Glimpse of Palin Presidency
"Saturday Night Live" returned to one of its favorite pastimes -- skewering Sarah Palin, this time imagining a world in which the former Alaska governor becomes president.
Watch SNL's mock trailer for "Palin 2012," featuring a mashup of the disaster movie "2012" and clips from Palin's book tour and the 2008 campaign.
On Election Day 2012, planet Earth is going rogue.
Al Gore on SNL
Al Gore appeared on SNL's "Weekend Update" and announced that he's come up with a new tactic for getting people to care about green issues, which is to start acting crazy.
Gore's cameo marked the fourth time he has appeared on SNL. The last time he was on the show, he appeared as "President" Al Gore, addressing the nation from a parallel universe in which he had won the 2000 election.
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The Week's Best Late-Night Jokes
"President Obama arrived in China yesterday. And to foster the spirit of good will, he wore the traditional clothes made by the children of China. You know, L.L. Bean, J. Crew, Banana Republic, Nike, Reebok." -Jay Leno
"Sarah Palin's book is number one on Amazon.com right now. Stephen King actually has the number two book. Very scary new book called 'Sarah Palin Becomes President.'" -Jimmy Kimmel
"In Sarah Palin's new book, she says when she first laid eyes on her future husband, she said out loud, 'Thank you, God,' which is the same thing the Democrats said when they first laid eyes on Sarah Palin." -Conan O'Brien
"Sarah Palin goes after vegetarians, too. She asks, 'If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come he made them out of meat?' It's a really good question. Hey, wait a second. People are made out of meat, too! And so are cocker spaniels. I think the lesson is, don't go to Sarah Palin's house for Thanksgiving dinner." -Jimmy Kimmel
"On Monday, Oprah Winfrey and Sarah Palin will sit down and they're going to talk for an entire hour. And I was thinking, too bad John McCain didn't do that with her before he chose her as his running mate." -David Letterman
"The White House has announced that they no longer recognize Fox as a news organization, which puts them about eight years behind the rest of us." -David Letterman
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Rogue Palin Ridicule Roundup
Comedians and satirists are finding plenty to laugh about in Sarah Palin's book and publicity tour:
• Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" goes rogue on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Watch as the book picks up a gun, evades FBI capture, shoots Rachel Maddow, and ducks into a hotel for a steamy love tryst.
• Conan O'Brien does some helpful editing of Palin's Oprah interview to shed some light on why she really resigned as governor.
• Jon Stewart explains to conservative pundits why he doesn't like Sarah Palin: "When you peel back the pretty, shooty layers of the Palin onion, there's no onion. It's just a conservative boiler plate mad lib."
• Stephen Colbert reviews Palin's book: a "steaming pile of sh*t"
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Surprises in Sarah Palin's Book. #2: Includes Levi Johnston centerfold.
• Sarah Palin meets her double on her book tour
• Test your Palin-tology with Going Rogue: The Quiz, by Paul Slansky
• Sarah Palin didn't put an index in her book. So Slate created one for her.
• View a series of amusing political cartoons about Palin's book.
• Borowitz Report: Palin Looking Forward to Reading Her Book
• Satirical Political Report: After Viewing Palin Book Tour, Mayans Move Up Doomsday Date
• NotTheLATimes: Scent of a Maverick -- Palin Releases Perfume Inspired By Her Memoir
• Palin goes rogue with many facts in her memoir, including the details surrounding her appearance on Saturday Night Live. She claims she was enthusiastic about going on the show in hopes of blunting the impact of Tina Fey's devastating impersonation of her. But email correspondence released by McCain staffers shows that Palin was "not thrilled" about the idea because she found the show's depiction of her "gross" and thought the cast members were "whack."
• Jimmy Kimmel: "People see Palin as a candidate in 2012. Some people have started giving money to her campaign. For instance, she just received a very generous check from Barack Obama." ( Read more jokes about Palin's book)
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Jokes About Sarah Palin's Book
As Sarah Palin returns to the national limelight to pimp her book, no one is happier than the late-night comedians, who are once again taking aim at their favorite political punching bag:
"Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you." --David Letterman
"Former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is promoting her new book and she's going to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Sarah and Oprah. On the one hand, a very powerful woman qualified to be President of the United States, and on the other hand, you have Sarah." --David Letterman
"But if you think about it, Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common. They both helped get Obama elected." --David Letterman
"Finally, excerpts from Sarah Palin's new book are starting to leak out to the internet. There's some really shocking stuff in there, complete sentences, proper grammar, really shocking stuff." -Jimmy Fallon
"Sarah Palin's new autobiography doesn't come out until November, but it is already No. 1 on Amazon. And if you go to the website, it says, 'People who bought this book also bought no other books in their entire life.'" --Jimmy Fallon
"This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's been translated in English." --Bill Maher
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#1: As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where -- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining to Katie Couric why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience
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#1. "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast." --an angry McCain aide describing Palin's $150,000 shopping spree
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"According to a new poll, 42% of Americans say they would vote for Sarah Palin for president in 2012. They also said they'd support her decision to step down in 2013." --Conan O'Brien
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The Week's Best Late-Night Jokes
"It's been reported that outspoken anti-immigration anchor Lou Dobbs is leaving CNN. Yeah. True story, yeah. He'll be replaced by a guy named Juan, who will do the same job for $5 an hour." -Conan O'Brien
"CBS News is reporting that President Obama has decided to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Obama says it's all part of his plan to finally deliver on the campaign promises made by John McCain." -Jimmy Fallon
"First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the episode gets a little tense when Ernie and Bert ask the first lady why her husband's dragging his feet on gay marriage." -Conan O'Brien
"President Obama's approval rating is down to 46 percent. That means 54 percent of the people do not approve of the job he's doing. I think this is totally unfair. We should at least wait until he actually does something." -Jay Leno
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The 100 Funniest Pictures of the Decade
With the end of the '00s upon us, we'll be taking a look back in coming weeks at the best political humor of the decade.
We're starting with the 100 funniest political pictures, spanning the years from the 2000 Florida recount to the era of George W. Bush to age of Barack Obama, with cameos by Sarah Palin, the Clintons, and other favorite political punching bags.
Click through this series of classic photo follies and Photoshop parodies for a comical nostalgia tour of a decade marked by one political absurdity after the next.
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Jon Stewart's Hilarious Glenn Beck Impersonation
This Daily Show segment is one for the ages. Watch as Jon Stewart does a brilliant, pitch-perfect imitation of Glenn Beck. There's a war going on in America, and the stakes are nothing less than Glenn Beck's internal organs.
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• SNL mocks Fox News's election coverage and Glenn Beck's spelling problems
• Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler rip apart Goldman Sachs on SNL's "Weekend Update" for getting preferential access to the swine flu vaccine despite massive shortages nationwide
• Stephen Colbert wonders if "Guy-Fawkers" will be the next accidentally sexual GOP catchphrase
• Borowitz Report: Fox News Reports: Millions of Grannies Flee U.S. as Death Panels Loom
• The Onion: Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck
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