She's so great it kills me

A recent article noted Tina Fey's comedic ability in capturing Sarah Palin (on a side note, the article had nothing to do with Tina Fey's impression.  The author started out talking about Palin's performance at the debate and ended in this excerpt.  I personally do not see the connection, but I appreciated the author's viewpoint on Tina Fey). Here is the excerpt:

We must take happiness where we can. Tina Fey's Sarah Palin has become, in that old phrase, a national sensation, and Ms. Fey is becoming, with her show "30 Rock," and now the Palin impression, one of the great comic figures of her generation. Her work with Amy Poehler (as Katie Couric) in last weekend's spoof on "Saturday Night Live" was so astoundingly good—the hand gestures, the vocal tone and spirit—that it captured some of the actual heart of the Palin story. Ms. Poehler as Couric: "Mrs. Palin, are you aware that when cornered you become increasingly adorable?" Ms. Fey as Palin mugs, adorably.

To spoof someone well takes talent, but to utterly nail a political figure while not brutalizing him takes a real gift, and amounts almost to a public service. After all, to capture someone is a kind of tribute: it concedes he is real, vivid, worthy of note. We are not as a nation manufacturing trust all that well, or competence, or leadership. But some things we do well, and one is comedy. Ms. Fey plays characters who are sour, stressed and who, on "30 Rock," live in a world that is cynical, provisional and shallow. But to observe life so closely takes a kind of love.

Joel and I are huge fans of 30 Rock and Tina Fey. Her renditions of Sarah Palin are priceless and like this article notes, she nails them.