Sarah Palin Appears on Saturday Night Live

Sarah Palin made a much-ballyhooed appearance on Saturday Night Live, where she gamely played along as Tina Fey once again skewered her. (See the video and transcript)

Palin was essentially a bystander in the two sketches she participated in, but it gave her a chance to show she's a good sport who can roll with the comedic punches.

The show opened with Fey holding a mock press conference, doing her usual, spot-on impersonation of Palin prattling off folksy platitudes and entertaining everybody with "some fancy pageant walkin'."

Palin, seen in the sketch watching from backstage with SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels, said "I just didn't think it was a realistic depiction of how one of my press conferences woulda gone."

She said she wished he would have let her do a sketch about 30 Rock, the NBC show in which Fey now stars. "Honestly not enough people know that show," Michaels deadpanned.

Fey's 30 Rock co-star, Alec Baldwin, then appeared alongside Palin and Michaels, and in the funniest moment of the sketch, mistook Palin for Fey.

Baldwin: "Lorne, I need to talk to you. You can't let Tina go out there with that woman. She goes against everything we stand for. I mean, good Lord, Lorne, they call her... what's that name they call her? Cari... Cari... What do they call her again, Tina?"

Sarah Palin: "That'd be Caribou Barbie."

Baldwin: "Caribou Barbie. Thank you, Tina. I mean, this is the most important election in our nation's history. And you want her -- our Tina -- to go out there and stand there with that horrible woman. What do you have to say for yourself?"

Lorne Michaels: "Alec, this is Governor Palin."

Palin: "Hi there."

Baldwin: "I see. Forgive me, but I feel I must say this -- you are way hotter in person."

Palin: "Thank you, and I must say, your brother Stephen is my favorite Baldwin brother."

Palin only fleetingly crossed paths with Fey as she took over the fake press conference, which oddly enough, is the closest she is likely to come to holding an actual press conference. "I'm not gonna take any of your questions," Palin declared, "but I do want to take this opportunity to say: "Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

Watch the video and read the transcript.

The Palin Rap

Palin appeared in a second sketch on "Weekend Update," in which she said she wasn't going to do the number they rehearsed because it would be "bad for the campaign."

Amy Poehler took over and performed a rap song that began "My name is Sarah Palin, you all know me. Vice prezzy nominee of the GOP."

Palin "raised the roof" and danced along in her chair to the Palin rap, which featured such lyrics as:

"My country tis a thee / from my porch i can see / russia and such"

"I'm jeremiah wright cause tonight I'm the preacha / I got a bookish look and you're all hot for teacha

"When i say 'Obama' you say 'Ayers' / Obama (Ayers) Obama (Ayers) / I built me a bridge - it ain't goin' nowhere.

Watch the video and read the lyrics to the Palin Rap.

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