The TV Zone

So, you're waking up - or maybe you're not waking up - to the news that Hillary was on "Saturday Night Live." It was a cameo, and after the opening skit, she delivered one of television's true classic lines ("live from...etc.)

An election must be coming up.

More news: She wasn't bad, though not particularly HI-larious (no fault of Hill's - these sorts of things never are), but considering what preceded her brief walk-on, she was a particularly good sport too. The opening skit was a re-wind of last week's Ohio debate, with Amy Poehler/Hillary, delivering this line:

To battle special interests, we need "someone so annoying, so grating, so bossy and shrill with a personality so unpleasant that at the end of the day the special interests will go - 'enough, we give up, life is too short to deal with this awful woman. Just give her what she wants so she'll leave us in peace.' I think the American people will agree that woman is ME."

A few minutes later, the "editorial response" from the real Hill: "...I was asked, should I take that as an endorsement? I was told absolutely not..."

Amy Poehler comes on, and asks how the campaign is going: "Oh, the campaign is going very very well. Why, what did you hear?"

And by the way: Fred Armisen's Obama. Will he ever smile or say more than five words? THIS is an impersonation that needs work - and by that I mean a little humor too, because this remains oddly, profoundly humorless.