SNL Season 34 debut, with host Michael Phelps and Tina Fey as Sarah Palin
Having an athlete host a live televised sketch comedy show is a bit of a hit-or-miss, win-or-lose proposition. If the star athlete already has shown a knack for comedy in his or her previous TV commercial endorsements (see: last year’s SNL debut host LeBron James, or Peyton Manning), then you can expect the athlete to cross the finish line with easy laughs. However, if the athlete swims like a fish out of water, then you’re about to endure the hype machine of swimmer Michael Phelps doggy paddle its way through 90 minutes of your 34th season debut of Saturday Night Live. Not that Phelps was horrible. But there’s nothing he did that’s worth even talking about, is there? Especially, particularly, definitely when Tina Fey provided all the buzz in the "cold open" as Republican VP wannabe Sarah Palin, appearing alongside longtime comedy friend Amy Poehler (about to give birth any day now, it seems) as Hillary Clinton for a joint statement. SNL head honcho Lorne Michaels said earlier in the week he was going after Fey to play Palin, since so many people had pointed out their similiar looks in the past couple of weeks of hubbub and hullaballoo, and they even gave Poehler a line to mock Palin for "her Tina Fey glasses." Fey had the voice pretty spot-on. The point of the sketch, though, as with most...
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