Queen Latifa to play Gwen Ifill in SNL skit...

[Blue Belle]

Queen Latifa as Gwen Ifill: SNL lines up VP Debate Sketch
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/queen-latifah-as-gwen-ifi_n_131725.html

<SNIP> TMZ reported today that Queen Latifah would be appearing on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend in the role of VP debate moderator Gwen Ifill:

Well-placed sources tell TMZ Queen Latifah is getting in the middle of the Sarah Palin/Joe Biden VP debate by portraying last night's moderator, PBS journalist Gwen Ifill, on "SNL" this week.
A rep for "SNL" confirmed the news to Huffington Post, saying, "IF we do a VP debate sketch, we have lined up Queen Latifah to play Ifill."

"SNL" has no black female cast members, and only one black male cast member, Kenan Thompson. Fred Armisen, who is of Venezuelan, Japanese, and German ancestry, currently plays Barack Obama on the show.

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I'm setting my DVR now...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. lol! What fun!

[tridim]

2. Who plays Joe?

[Brotherjohn]

3. I hope Fey just quotes her verbatim for a few parts again. There were one or two "answers"...

... Palin gave that were just rambling strings of talking points completely unconnected to anything.

Fey's impersonation will place them in their proper context (i.e. show her for what she is).

[JBoy]

4. No problem with Queen Latifa, but I'm sure Kenan Thompson could pull off Gwen Ifil.

[TexasObserver]

5. Queen Latifah will be great!

[ejpoeta]

6. while watching the debate i imagined the snl parody.

man, palin is just givin snl ratings isn't she. and chances are they don't have to write a whole heckuva lot. you betcha!