NEW YORK (CNN) -- Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," along with Palin lookalike Tina Fey. The show's opening sketch featured a mock press conference with Fey reprising her role as the Alaska governor. The piece then cut to a shot of Palin watching Fey's performance on a television monitor with Lorne Michaels, the show's executive producer. "I just didn't think it was a realistic depiction of the way my press conferences would have gone," she said. "Why couldn't we have done the '30 Rock' sketch that I wrote?" she asked, referring to the NBC comedy which stars Fey.
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Sarah Palin appears on "Saturday Night Live" with former cast member Tina Fey
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Sketch also featured "30 Rock" actor Alec Baldwin
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Fey has played Palin several times on the show
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The opening sketch also featured a surprise visit by Alec Baldwin, Fey's "30 Rock" co-star, who mistook Palin for @placeholder, and tried to convince Michaels not to let Fey appear on the show with the governor.
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Baldwin, still oblivious that he was talking to the governor, continued: "You want her, our @placeholder, to go out there and stand there with that horrible woman," he asked.
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In both skits, @placeholder delivered her lines with a straight face but mostly played the comic foil to the show's cast of mischief-makers.