Hulu Nails Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live (SNL)
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As we noted a few weeks ago, Hulu and NBC finally get it. When we woke up and wanted to see how Sarah Palin did on SNL last night, we took a chance and dropped by Hulu first. And there it was!
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Sarah Palin on SNL: Millions of Viral Views
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Alaskan small towner and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin paid a visit to the Big Apple and the studios of Saturday Night Live yesterday evening. And because her appearance all but caps the final political guest spot to be had on NBC’s resurgent skit machine, we thought it’d only be appropriate to take one big sweeping look back at the opening scenes and subsequent spoofs that have made up the humor track of the current election campaign soon to finish.
Let’s start in the present. As you’ve now learned, the real Sarah Palin made her way back to New York after a few days of ...
Hulu's SNL Sarah Palin Clips Play Overseas, More International Streaming On The Way?
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The first comment on our post yesterday praising Hulu for its next-day posting of SNL Sarah Palin clips: "Finally! These clips are now also viewable outside the US!" supposedly from Johan in Holland. He's not alone: Aussie blogger Duncan Riley says the SNL clips work for him, and H.B. Richman on Twitter says they're working in England, too. (Anyone else? Let us know in comments.)
If true, that's good news for SNL fans outside the U.S., and could be a sign of more overseas streaming to come, especially for SNL clips. Hulu is half-owned by SNL's NBC (GE), so we assume Hulu didn't have ...
Sarah Palin SNL Clips More Popular On Web Than TV
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Soon, more people will have watched Sarah Palin's "Saturday Night Live" appearance on the Internet than on TV. AdAge's Michael Learmonth (Go, Michael!) did the math:
Nielsen reports 15 million people watched the Palin's two skits on TV.
6.1 million people watched the skits -- a "Weekend Update" appearance and one where Palin watched Tina Fey impersonate her during a press conference -- on NBC.com.
They've been watched another 2.85 million in online news coverage and pirated clips on YouTube and other video-sharing sites.
The clips are the second and third most popular clips on Hulu in the last week, ...
12 Viral Videos from the 2008 Campaigns
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There have been a whole host of memorable moments in this election cycle, and few people are as happy as I am to see this thing finally come to a close. As a political junky, I peaked way early in this process, and the protracted primary season served me heartbreak after heartbreak. At this point (having already cast my early vote), I’m ready for the pain to be over with and move on to the regular pain of day to day political coverage in a non-election season.
Given that this is one of the last opportunities for it to still be topical, I figured with only a few days left it might be a decent time to go back over the last year or ...


