Tina Fey Takes on Sarah Palin One More Time for Inside the Actors Studio

By Paste Staff at 11:30 AM on March 22, 2013

The encounter has Lipton asking Fey-as-Palin about her stance on gay marriage and gun control and is worth at least one watch, mostly because of the ease Fey has in taking on this character and improving on command.  read more

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Julianne Moore to Portray Sarah Palin in HBO Film

By Wyndham Wyeth at 2:00 PM on March 10, 2011

Julianne Moore is set to play former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in an upcoming film for HBO. Based on the book Game Change by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the film of the same name will chronicle the 2008 Presidential election, including candidate John McCain’s campaign and his surprise selection of Palin as his running mate....  read more

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Faux News is Good News

By Steve LaBate at 4:00 PM on January 11, 2010

Over the last decade, the newspaper industry has buckled. Three of network TV’s longest-running and most trusted news anchors (Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather) have disappeared from the airwaves. And cable news has become consumed by talking heads paid to eternally bicker as if trapped in some earthbound Purgatory, a place where opinion and hearsay are subtly suggested to be fact, and where it’s policy to cut away from coverage of the day’s most important issues to follow a live car chase on the L.A. freeway....  read more

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Listen to Ben Folds and Nick Hornby's "Levi Johnston's Blues"

By Michael Saba at 9:10 AM on October 15, 2009

As we learned a year ago, piano-pop maven Ben Folds and author Nick Hornby are collaborating on a soon-to-be-released but as-yet-untitled album. The duo’s wry self-awareness of music and literature seem like a natural fit, but it’s still hard to predict what fruit this pairing will bear....  read more

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HBO and NBC Win Big at Creative Arts Emmys

By Emily Riemer at 10:45 AM on September 16, 2009

At the 61st Annual Creative Arts Emmys, hosted by Kathy Griffin, which aired last Saturday (Sept. 12), award-winners ranged from the well-deserved to unsurprising to boring....  read more

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Catching Up With... Harry Shearer

By Henry Freedland at 10:00 AM on October 23, 2008

Shot through the history of comedic cornerstones like The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live and Spinal Tap is comedian Harry Shearer. His newest project, Songs of the Bushman, takes musical aim at the Bush Administration, lampooning...  read more

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Skeletons, Sarah Palin star in annual Little Five Points Halloween Parade

By Loren Lankford, photo by Jeffrey Bloomer at 1:39 PM on October 22, 2008

[Above: Skeletons created by the Krewe of Grateful Gluttons march in the parade.]Growing up, I always thought it was strange that the Little Five Points Halloween Parade didn’t happen at night. And now I wonder why it takes place on an early Saturday (this year, Oct. 18) and not on the actual holiday. Either way, the early date and daylight time-slot are really the least strange things about this cult event. ...  read more

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Real Sarah Palin to guest on Saturday Night Live tomorrow

By Jeremy Medina at 5:06 PM on October 17, 2008

Let's be serious: Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live these past few weeks has been exactly what we needed to cope with this increasingly absurd election (Joe the Plumber, anyone?). Now, news has emerged that Palin wants to be in on the joke and will make an appearance on the show tomorrow night. (She apparently thought the first sketch was hilarious...even with the sound off.)...  read more

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Current Events: "Joe the Plumber" Megamix

By Steve LaBate at 2:40 PM on October 17, 2008

Last Wednesday night, a blue-collar hero went down in history. Toledo, Ohio’s own Joe Wurzelbacher—aka “Joe the Plumber”—was invoked no less than 26 times, making him more central to the third presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama than anything else, including taxes, education, the war, terrorism, the environment and energy independence.Seeing as how a playlist about plumbers would’ve been pretty short, today’s Current Events megamix will focus simply on great songs about guys named Joe. Here’s to you, plumber man! ...  read more

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Publishers enter bidding war for Tina Fey book

By Mary Kate Varnau at 3:16 PM on October 3, 2008

It's been a very good season for 30 Rock creator Tina Fey. A few weeks back, she picked up three Emmys, including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress. Since then, the infamous Sarah Palin likeness has kept her on screen and in the news....  read more

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