Saturday Night Live parodies of Sarah Palin to joke that "[she] was just trying to give Tina Fey more material." She also joked that it was to provide "job security for "SNL" characters." Palin later remarked that she should appear on "SNL" to spoof a series of American Express commercials which featured Tina Fey. Due to the popularity of the sketch and Fey's impression of Palin, Fey reprised her role during the September 27, 2008 episode. That sketch featured Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric (Amy Poehler), and parodied an interview which took place between Palin and Couric which aired days before the sketch's broadcast. In the
Public image of Sarah Palin featured guest stars mistaking Palin for Fey. On September 27, 2008, Nicole Parker portrayed Sarah Palin during a mock Q&A session in a live audience. On October 4, 2008 MADtv aired a Special Election Presidential Special where it featured Parker once again appearing as Palin. Actress Gina Gershon self-produced and posted several parody videos in which she portrays Palin for the comedy website Funny or Die. In one of the videos, Gershon, as Palin, dons a stars-and-stripes bikini and totes a gun, a reference to a widely circulated, but faked, photograph purporting to be the real Palin in such a