Lorne Michaels - Saturday Night Live: Political Satire 2008 - 2008 Peabody Award Acceptance Speech

Описание: Winner 2008 | SNL Studios in association with Broadway Video


The 2008 Presidential campaign was a tonic for the troupe at Saturday Night Live. Stealing satirical thunder back from its cable rivals, SNL’s writers and sketch-players made transparent the absurdities that accompany serious politics in the media age. Tina Fey became Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, in some voters’ minds. Yet her impersonation was only one of many spot-on goofs: Darrell Hammond contributed an edgy John McCain, Fred Armisen a windy, wonky Barack Obama. Amy Poehler did double duty as Hillary Clinton and CBS News anchor Katie Couric, while Chris Parnell had NBC anchorman emeritus Tom Brokaw down to a stentorian T. The sketch bits were matched by deft campaign-commercial parodies—among them Clinton’s “3 a.m. phone call” spot—and a “TV Funhouse” segment in which cartoon candidates preemptively confessed their secret sins to a cartoon Oprah Winfrey. If the major candidates were offended, they didn’t let it keep them from cameo appearances on a hot-ticket show. For providing much-need laughs during a tumultuous, interminably long campaign season, a Peabody Award goes to Saturday Night Live for its 2008 political satire.

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