“The Earth Is Going Rogue”: SNL’s Palin 2012 Disaster Movie Parody

by Joe Coscarelli | 8:53 am, November 22nd, 2009

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The joke may have been obvious, but the execution was flawless — which is more than you can usually say for Saturday Night Live. Last night, the show got off to a shaky start with a plodding President Obama and China press conference that dithered with gay jokes, followed by a musical theatre-type monologue from host Joseph Gordon-Levitt, in which he sounded like Kermit the Frog and committed acts of physical comedy. But then, a digital short! That means tons of editing and high-quality footage and no line flubs and celebrity cameos and… voilà. Laughs. A topical movie parody paired with the author of the biggest book in the land: Sarah Palin, 2012, Glenn Beck, Going Rogue — just watch:

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TfT says:

November 22, 2009 at 9:12 am

Why not put up both video’s and let folks make up their own minds about the Obama sketch? Just because you didn’t like it doesn’t mean the rest of us (or at least some of us) won’t.

Joe Coscarelli says:

November 22, 2009 at 9:28 am

It will have its own post, I promise!

Facebook User says:

November 22, 2009 at 10:07 am

My favorite part of last night’s show was Al Gore “out crazy-ing the crazy” on weekend update:
http://www.gotchamediablog.com/2009/11/snl-al-gore-out-crazies-crazy.html

TfT says:

November 22, 2009 at 10:14 am

I will look forward to CNN fact checking the Obama skit.

m says:

November 22, 2009 at 2:08 pm

Looks like a trailer for a documentary to me.

Bill Adkins says:

November 22, 2009 at 2:18 pm

” m says:
November 22, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Looks like a trailer for a documentary to me.”

I think youre right about the Palin bit – it does resemble a documentary. Of course, if you want to see a documentary about the Republoteabaggerists catch “Idiocracy.” It captures them perfectly.

Ben Linus says:

November 23, 2009 at 10:34 am

So, Joe Coscarelli didn’t like the Obama in China skit. Gee, what a surprise. Gee, what a pathetic little baby.

Bill Adkins, the fact that you wasted your time watching a movie called “Idiocracy” says more about you than it does about Republicans.

rmbltmbl says:

November 23, 2009 at 11:20 am

From the DNC and Olbermann! PRICELESS!

ImNotBlue says:

November 23, 2009 at 2:14 pm

Last night, the show got off to a shaky start with a plodding President Obama and China press conference that dithered with gay jokes,

They weren’t gay jokes… it was the joke that the US is f**king China over. We’ve borrowed a lot of money, and the best we can say is, “You’ll get your money back.” They weren’t gay jokes… methinks you missed the point.

Bill Adkins says:
November 22, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Are you sure that was the intent of the movie? Methinks you may have missed the point… especially because the movie was written by Mike Judge… of “King of the Hill” and “The Goode Family” (and “Bevis and Butthead”… but that’s another story).

rmbltmbl says:
November 23, 2009 at 11:20 am

It’s funny how some of the other commenters missed that fact. Well, I guess some see what they want to see. The video wasn’t a shot at Palin or even Beck… it was a shot at the DNC (and folks like Olbermann), and how they demonize Palin. “The world will end,” is what they seem to say about a Palin Presidency… this pokes fun at their outlandishness.

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