Most Saturday Night Live stars get famous while they're still cast members. An SNL character will catch on and in a flash. People will start watching and rewatching clips of their favorite sketches online. With Tina Fey, the irony is that, now that she is no longer on Saturday Night Live, she's more popular on the show than ever.

Thanks to her amazing Sarah Palin impression, SNL fans are obsessed with clips of Tina Fey's brilliant impersonation, from the season premiere skit with Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton to the Vice Presidential debate to the Katie Couric interview, Tina Fey is having her best year ever on Saturday Night Live.

For easy access, we've collected all of Tina Fey's best SNL clips in one place. Between hosting Saturday Night Live in the spring and now playing Governor Palin, there are quite a few clips to choose from, surprising since she's no longer on the show. However, here are the funniest ones that you'll definitely want to watch over and over again.



When Tina Fey hosted Saturday Night Live, her monologue was a surprisingly strong piece of comedy. The surprise wasn't that she's a brilliant writer, but that she could be funny as an actress, right down to her perfect drunk Chinese woman impression.



Tina Fey's return also brought her back to Weekend Update, where she delivered another “Women's News” segment. Aside from promoting yogurt that makes you poop, the highlight was her fiery defense of Hillary Clinton's campaign, ending in the line, “Bitch is the new black.” IN a subsequent episode, Tracy Morgan showed up to offer a rebuttal with the topper: “Bitch may be the new black, but black is the new president, bitch.”



On the season premiere of SNL, you'd think the biggest story would be eight-time gold medal Olympian Michael Phelps. But in the opening skit, Tina Fey stole the show, debuting her spot-on, folksy Sarah Palin impression, claiming it for her own.



The genius of this skit isn't necessarily the clever writing of Tina Fey, it's the brilliant decision not to write a skit. Large chunks of this clip is a verbatim transcript of the actual Katie Couric interview, proving Tina Fey can take anything and make it funny.



Clocking in at more than 11 minutes, this is not your typical SNL skit, but when you have Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Queen Latifah as debate moderator Gwen Ifill, longer is better. With her third Palin skit, Fey really starts having fun with it, exploring the character and making it her own.


-John Kubicek, BuddyTV Senior Writer
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