NO PARODY REQUIRED…. If you missed it, Tina Fey returned to “Saturday Night Live” last night to reprise her Sarah Palin role. It was more than a little devastating.
Here’s the truly hysterical part: the bit used actual quotes from Palin’s interview this week with Sarah Palin. As the Huffington Post noted, “no parody was required.”
When a comedy show can make you look ridiculous by actually quoting you, verbatim, that’s a problem.
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