Tina Fey braves the blizzard to bring Sarah Palin back to SNL
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin resurfaced this week and, in a move that shocked precisely no one, endorsed still-somehow-viable presidential candidate Donald Trump. Her seemingly free-associative address to Iowa voters prompted many questions—for example: “Did Sarah Palin spend her time out of the spotlight murmuring to herself in the Alaska wilderness, stroking a shotgun and listening to nothing but Fox News and random audiobook snippets of Atlas Shrugged played backward?”—the biggest being whether or not the foremost Palin impersonator in TV history could be coaxed out of hiding one last time on Saturday Night Live. Well, wonder no more, as the ever-persuasive Lorne Michaels drew SNL alum Tina Fey back to Studio 8H last night (in a freaking blizzard, no less) to put on the wig and fire up the broadly accented nonsense in a recreation of Palin’s jingoistic jumble. Joining Fey was her former castmate Darrell Hammond, who, it seems, will take on Trump duties for the duration of this long, interminable election season.