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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:00 AM

Bateman: I know what a Zamboni is!

And more video blogging from Sara Benincasa as Sarah Palin.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 09:07 AM

Doesn't really work, does it?

That's a remarkably funny Sarah Palin vlog, with remarkably distracting and unfunny side-comments. I'm not sure that they're WRITTEN so terribly, it's more that silent comments like that don't work at all when the primary material is already satirical. The joke's already being made! It makes the side-commenter seem like the little fat kid whose buddy just made a great joke who chimes in, saying, "Yeah, and, and then he stepped in a big pile of @#$%!" The laughter stops, everyone feels awkward, and silently vows not to hang around with that kid any more.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 02:16 PM

I agree with the first commentor

I'm not faulting you for trying it, Scott -- and, hey, you know, I love you, I came to the PIT to see your stuff live -- but this totally doesn't work. Are you not getting enough source material?

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 05:07 PM

Yeah, this doesn't work like "The Word"

I agree completely with the first post and was saying something similar while watching the cartoon with my fiance -- though I wasn't as funny as the first poster.

The other thing is: I'm confused -- this isn't for real, right? These aren't really things she said, are they? You wrote the skit, right? Because if not, I have a new level of horror and disbelief to dive into, and I just don't want that. This just can't be real.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 05:07 PM

Enh.

I win some, I lose some. I learn and move on.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 09:36 PM

Strangely, worked (or worked strangely) for me.

I kind of like the premise that Sarah Palin and the Sarah Palin Parodist is one and the same, a blur of the minimal fact, abundant fiction and sheer lunacy that is this vice-presidential candidacy.

(I hope Scott will provide the answers to Couric's stumper of a question regarding "what does Sarah Palin read.")

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