
Good news and sorta sad news. I'll start with the sorta sad: Fox has
canceled it's long-running sketch comedy program MadTV, which
didn't exactly shock too many people. The folks at
Best Week Ever even joked they thought it got canceled four years ago.
Will You Keep Watching SNL After the Election? Politicians have always been excellent fodder for comedy, and this election season has been very entertaining on SNL (due in large part to Tina Fey's spot-on impressions of Sarah Palin). The SNL Presidential Bash even garnered
record ratings on Monday night.

Politicians have always been excellent fodder for comedy and this election season has been very entertaining on SNL (due in large part to Tina Fey's spot-on impressions of Sarah Palin). The SNL Presidential Bash even garnered
record ratings on Monday night.
But now that the election is over, will this all still be as funny?

"Gird your loins!" Yeah! My favorite quote of last week made it into the opening of SNL last night where Joe Biden and John Murtha attempted to remove their feet from their mouths for certain "
crises" and "
redneck" statements.

In a class reunion of sorts between two SNL alums and two of the most recognizable and/or popular political impressions, last night's Thursday edition had
Bush meeting Palin — for an endorsement of a very special kind.
Asking where McCain was to receive this special blessing and waxing on the experience of his last eight years in office, "Bush" said, "George Bush always finds his man, save for one huge exception." He went on, complimenting Fey-lin on her folksiness, saying, "For a while I was trying to be folksy, but after a bit, it just came off 'douchey'" Do we say that?

This is it! After inspiring the most talked-about impersonation since Will Ferrell's Bush, the Real Sarah Palin was on SNL last night, opening the show and showing up to Weekend Update (can I say she looked very comfortable behind that news desk?) She seemed the picture of a good sport and kind of in her element. Check out what happens when Alec Baldwin confuses Palin for Fey-lin.

Just when we thought it was going to get all grim and serious for the last 18 days of the election, the funnies come marching in! After
LOL performances by both candidates at the Al Smith dinner — and despite jokes falling
7-1 against Republicans, which I'm sure were helped in part by Letterman's recent . .

I love my video websites like YouTube, Vimio, and Hulu, and even though it's fun to watch hilarious viral videos, they're indispensable for TV clips; before when you forgot to watch or DVR something, you just missed it. The end. But the rise of websites with clips on them ensures you're never out of the loop; can you imagine living in a world where you missed "
D*ck in a Box"?

This is an odd story, the
mysterious disappearance of an SNL sketch on the Bailout. Since
$700 billion is pretty big doin's, naturally the Lampooners in Chief wanted to get in on the action — regardless of whether Congressional hearings/press conferences lend themselves to comedy (uh, they don't.) The sketch trained a carefully pointy eye on the
possible Democratic roots of the Bailout plan.
Why then has the sketch, which skewered everyone from the 99th richest person in the world,
George Soros to philanthropists Herb and Marion Sandler, disappeared?
Palin To Appear On SNL? Now the Chicago Sun-Times reports that Palin may appear on Saturday Night Live herself, potentially to make fun of Fey's American Express commercials. Bill Zwecker reports that while some McCain staffers want Palin to simply keep joking about Fey's impression on the campaign trail — she wrote "I'm not Tina Fey" on one backer's cell phone — others believe it is important that she appear on the show herself. Palin would be far from the first candidate to appear on SNL after an unflattering portrayal.