Saturday Night Live Satire

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This episode of Saturday Night Live happened during the 2008 presidential election. They use satire to portray the 2008 presidential election in a funny way. They 'poke' fun at the Republican party vice president nominee; Sarah Palin and the current President; George W. Bush. Saturday Night Live uses satire to show their viewers their political aspects in a humorous way. Will Ferrell portrays George W. Bush and Tina Fey portrays Sarah Palin. They use political jokes throughout the show, thus using satire, to give the audience a chance to laugh at the political impersonator. The audience gets a chance to laugh at what they believe are the mistakes of the political member. They make fun of George W. Bush and how it seems as if the Republican party wants him as far away as possible from the political campaign. It jokes about the "one man" George Bush has yet to find and how he believed that it was the vice president who has the more powerful position. They portray Bush as an idiotic Texan, who has no idea how to run the nation and his "bummer free" oval office. In the portrayal of Sarah Palin, they made sure to make her accent as noticeable as possible and her being from Alaska, which creates a sense of being unfit to be the vice president nominee. I find this form of satire funny because you do not have to be too informed in politics to find this humorous.