Tina Fey reprised her role as Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live" in a star-studded season finale for the variety show. With guest appearances from Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller to Alec Baldwin and John Goodman, "SNL" closed Season 43 with a bang.
And while Baldwin's President Trump impression was hit and miss in the cold open Saturday night, Fey brought some impressive consistency to her Palin parody.
Fey greeted the audience by announcing she was "the ghost of Sarah Palin," an unnecessary joke considering she embodied the right-wing provocateur. In case someone was unfamiliar with Palin, or had forgotten who she was, Fey gave a quick refresher.
"I was the first female on the Republican presidential ticket and now I get paid to tweet for Bass Pro Shops. Take it from me, politics is a wild ride," Fey said. "One minute you are on top and then you are gone in the blink of a Scaramucci."
Fey's Palin was joined on stage by a variety of former White House staffers and personalities who failed to survive the "Apprentice"-style operation that is the Trump administration.
Fey checked in with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, played by Aidy Bryant, Kellyanne Conway, by Kate McKinnon, Michael Wolff, donned by Fred Armisen, Stormy Daniels, by Cecily Strong, Rex Tillerson, parodied by John Goodman, and Omarosa Manigault, played Leslie Jones.
The crew of misfit toys sang "What I Did for Love" as they commiserated their short, brief stints in the limelight.
"Being fired by Trump was the best thing to ever happen to me," Goodman's Tillerson said. "I'm the only person to go into a situations scathed and come out unscathed."
"Trump thinks he fired me, but I fired myself," Jones' Manigault quipped.
Of course, Fey's Palin stole the show, who ended the sketch by giving advice to current White House staffers who may soon find an exit.
"Nothing wrong with doing Dancing with the Stars, just don't do a quickstep on the first week. It's too darn hard," she said.
Watch Fey's reprisal of Palin below:
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