CHEVY CHASE - TINA FEY SAYS SHE'LL BE DONE WITH PALIN NEXT MONTH

TINA FEY SAYS SHE'LL BE DONE WITH PALIN NEXT MONTH

Tina Fey says that she will only be doing her impersonations of Sarah Palin until election day. "If she wins, I'm done," Fey said in an interview with TV Guide . "I can't do that for four years. And by 'I'm done,' I mean I'm leaving Earth." Meanwhile, in an interview with the New York Post , Jerald Podair, a professor of American Studies at Lawrence University, said, "Presidential impersonators do influence elections, and in this one, Tina Fey is well on her way to ruining Sarah Palin's political career." John Pitney Jr., professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College, compared the Fey skits with those featuring Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford in the 1970s. Chase portrayed Ford as a stumbling fool. "Ford was among our most athletic presidents, and he had a wide ranging knowledge of public-policy issues" Pitney said. "But because of SNL many came to think of him as a buffoon."

14/10/2008