Palin and McCain on Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash

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I am watching Saturday Night's Presidential Bash as I write this. As I've said before, I've watched SNL since episode one in 1975, when it was still called NBC's Saturday Night, and the cast was called "The Not Ready for Prime Time Players."

Well, tonight's episode was in prime time. It was a compilation of political clips, past and present (mostly present), and of course was quite funny, given the number of episodes they could draw from. I was surprised to see that the tone of the current stuff was largely negative toward Democrats in general, and toward Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards and Joe Biden in particular. For all those who claim that SNL is "in the tank" for Obama, they really ought to watch this episode on NBC.com.

Of course, there were several jabs at John McCain and Sarah Palin too. Mostly Palin, she's just so easy, and Tina Fey is so good at the part. But the real life cameos of McCain and Palin (separately) were the most newsworthy bits. What they weren't was funny. Particularly Palin, who showed no sense of fun or comedic timing whatsoever.