"Saturday Night Live" Hires Tina Fey to Play Michelle Obama

[Thomas Allen Heald]

http://www.afterellen.com/blog/sarahwarn/satire-tina-fey-to-play-Michelle-Obama-on-SNL

"Saturday Night Live" Hires Tina Fey to Play Michelle Obama
by Sarah Warn

Emmy-winning writer, actor and comedian Tina Fey (30 Rock) has agreed to
return to Saturday Night Live for several episodes this season to play
First Lady-elect Michelle Obama.

"Tina's Sarah Palin impersonation was ratings gold for us," said SNL
executive producer Lorne Michaels at a press conference announcing the
news. "So when we started writing skits about America's new First Lady,
we naturally thought of Tina."

Michaels admitted Fey expressed reservations about playing the First
Lady when he first raised the idea with her over dinner the night
before, but says she changed her mind "after several shots of tequila."

When asked by a reporter whether a black actress/comedian might be a
more appropriate choice, Michaels replied, "we don't have any black
women in the cast, and Angelina Jolie wasn't available."

Tina Fey, who was not at the press conference, has reluctantly confirmed
the arrangement, but says she was under the impression the contract she
signed that night was a credit card receipt for mozzarella sticks.

When informed of the news at the christening of a local Coscto in
Juneau, AK, Gov. Sarah Palin said she was relieved that someone else
would be "the target of the liberal media elite" for a change, adding
that she always suspected Michelle Obama of "palling around with
comedians."

Michelle Obama could not be reached for comment.

[Wrecks]

The words wringing, blood, and stone come to mind. You can form your
own sentence out of them.

[Jon Delfin]

Actually, it was the words clever and satire that came to my mind.

[dsi...@yahoo.com]

On Jan 5, 4:26 pm, Thomas Allen Heald <toma...@peoplepc.com> wrote:

> When asked by a reporter whether a black actress/comedian might be a
> more appropriate choice, Michaels replied, "we don't have any black
> women in the cast, and Angelina Jolie wasn't available."

Imagine. There are apparently no black women in the whole country who
are funnier than Kristen Wiig.

Let that sink in.

--Dave Sikula

[Mark J.]

Notice the word "satire" in the URL?

[Brad Beam]

And while we're recasting the First Family-elect, perhaps we could convince
Maya Rudolph to come back as President O. At least she'd be more racially
accurate than the Venezuelan-German-Japanese Fred Armisen.

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|_>|_> Brad Beam- Belle WV
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[Thomas Allen Heald]

>> When asked by a reporter whether a black actress/comedian might be a
>> more appropriate choice, Michaels replied, "we don't have any black
>> women in the cast, and Angelina Jolie wasn't available."
>
> Imagine. There are apparently no black women in the whole country who
> are funnier than Kristen Wiig.

At least not in the Groundlings or Second City...

[Mark J.]

Weeellllll...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-christina-michelle-obama-121dec18,0,1308692.story

And I've mentioned Amber Ruffin, who Anthony replaced in the Second
City ETC company, before in this forum.