NBC Fondly Remembers SNL Trashing Palin, Hopes for Trump Take-Down

Kyle Drennen | September 30, 2016
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On Friday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer excitedly proclaimed: “Anticipation already running high for tomorrow’s season premiere of Saturday Night Live when the show announced that Alec Baldwin will be playing Donald Trump.” Fellow co-host Savannah Guthrie chimed in: “That put the anticipation into the stratosphere.” She then wondered: “We think there will be laughs, but will it actually have an impact on the election?”

In the report that followed, correspondent Koda Kotb gushed that Baldwin’s impersonation of the Republican nominee was coming just “at one of the most pivotal points in the race” and could help shape the campaign just as it did in 2008. She touted: “Pointed political satire reached a new level when SNL brought former cast Tina Fey to play Alaska Governor Sarah Palin....Some say the impersonation helped define Palin’s image among voters.”

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