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As mainstream American politics remains strained as best and completely divided at worst, the average viewer looks to non-traditional outlets for guidance, information and relief. Many believe that shows like Saturday Night Live can provide these three things, and with good reason. Historically, humorists and comedians were some of the best truth-tellers in society. Saturday Night Live has a long history of distilling political figures into their most base form; pretty much every American views Gerald Ford as clumsy and accident prone because of how he was portrayed on SNL. Over the years, other comedy outlets (In Living Color, Mad TV, Chappelle's Show, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Patriot Act, etc.) followed suit with varying success (though admittedly more biting than SNL). Well, one thing that they all lacked was longevity and a constant. For SNL, Lorne Michaels is latter and as such has contributed to the former. The others, while definitely more edgy at times, only las...

 

  SNL "celebrates" one month after US invaded Afghanistan . Funny how this wasn't referenced in "A Closer Look" about Afghanistan . 

South Park on their reasons for "backing off" of Trump:   “We were really trying to make fun of what was going on [last season] but we couldn’t keep up. What was actually happening was way funnier than anything we could come up with. So we decided to just back off and let [politicians] do their comedy and we’ll do ours.” Meanwhile, Saturday Night Live seems to have no shortage of material to use . It's almost like one group is made up of comedic actors who know how to find humor in everything, and the other group are political/social contrarians who may actually agree with the ideals of the latest target.

Yowza .

As only they can .

Art imiates Life, and then Life...strikes back ? It's looking more and more likely that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will appear on ''Saturday Night Live'' -- to have some fun with Tina Fey. As the comedian's impressions of the GOP vice presidential candidate draw laughs from Republicans and Democrats alike, a top honcho from the John McCain campaign tells me there's a debate going on about how to respond. Some key McCain staffers are content with Palin joking about the "SNL" routines on the campaign trail -- as when scribbled "I'm not Tina Fey" on a supporter's cell phone and said she'd dressed as Fey on Halloween. But others -- including the governor herself -- think a return punch on the NBC airwaves is what's needed. I'm hearing some sort of Palin tweak of Fey's American Express commercials is in the works. Seriously? With their campaign trailing Obama/Biden in the polls, with the decision to abandon Michigan, this ...

Life imitates art; art imitates life : SNL alum Tina Fey parodies Gov. Sarah Palin, Gov. Sarah Palin admits that she once dressed like Tina Fey at a party . I will now light myself on fire.

Tina Fey will host SNL this season early, and often. " Murderball ," commenting on Gov. Palin's "shredding" of Kudlow .