'Talent Portion' - SNL Brings Back Tina Fey as Palin, With Queen Latifah as Gwen Ifill

It takes true genius to delve into the "partisan bickering" that's going on in Washington and on the campaign trail, extract the threads of truth, and weave them into the type of good-spirited political humor that can make both sides of the aisle laugh. Few are doing this as well as the writers of Saturday Night Live's weekly opening sketch.

And this past weekend, along with Tina Fey reprising her impersonation of Governor Sarah Palin, Jason Sudeikis appeared as a very convincing Joe Biden and Queen Latifah played Gwen Ifill, PBS journalist and moderator of the vice presidential debate - the event which is thoroughly lampooned.

Nobody was safe, from Fey's Palin clutching a flute that she intended to play during the talent portion of the debate and Sudeikis' Biden claiming his 'love' for friend John McCain, to Latifah's Ifill hawking her book on racial politics in the age of Obama.

Here's the sketch in case you missed it, and a CNN.com clip that runs a portion of the debate side-by-side with the SNL copy.

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