[Hammer:] Now on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, live from New York, it`s the funniest campaign ever. Our coverage continues on this special Election Day edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT with the top five funniest "Saturday Night Live" moments. From Tina Fey`s Sarah Palin to "SNL`s" CNN spoof. Tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT counts down the top five funniest moments.
[Hilton:] Hey, America, I`m Paris Hilton and I`m a celebrity, too. Only I`m not from the olden days and I`m not promising change like that other guy. I`m just hot.
[Hammer:] It was surprising enough that John McCain used Paris Hilton in a campaign ad. But what about when she responded with her own ad? Tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT counts down the top five things we didn`t see coming. TV`s most provocative entertainment news show continues right now.
[Anderson:] And I`m Brooke Anderson coming to you tonight from Hollywood.
[Hammer:] Well, tonight on this election night, our special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT continues with Hollywood`s vote, an election extravaganza. We are bringing you SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s continuing countdown of our top five campaign moments. Now, we`ve already named the top five unlikely stars of the election. Let`s look at it again. Number five was Palin look-alike news anchor, Cindy Michaels. Number four was Obama Girl. In at three was Paris Hilton. Number two, Joe the Plumber. And number one on our list, Tina Fey. And now, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is naming the top five funniest moments on "Saturday Night Live" from campaign 2008. So with so many to choose from, the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT staff did have a great debate about it. But the votes are now in, so without further ado joining me tonight in New York is Lisa Bloom who is the host for "Lisa Bloom: In Court" [sic] and "In Session" anchor. And from Hollywood, Russell Wetanson of "PopSquire.com." Let us get right to it. Number five on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s countdown of the top five funniest "SNL" moments from campaign 2008, CNN`s electoral map. We`re talking about the high-tech, so-called magic wall that CNN`s John King has been using throughout this presidential campaign on CNN as part of the best political team on showbiz. Well, on "SNL," Fred Armisen stood in front of a moving map of the United States and I`m thinking this was genius. Let`s watch it.
[Fred Armisen, Comedian:] New Hampshire what a pretty state. Wouldn`t it be a drag if he pulled it over to Mexico?
[Amy Poehler, Actress:] OK, Fred, come on, stop goofing around.
[Armisen:] Say, Michigan I can make it bounce.
[Hammer:] Perfection. Lisa, what do you think? Does that just capture the magic wall perfectly?
[Bloom:] It does. I don`t know how they do all that. They get video to pop up out of it. Then he squishes it down and changes the colors. And you`re always waiting for something to go wrong, but it never does. It was the perfect subject for an "SNL" parody.
[Hammer:] It`s really has become iconic throughout this campaign. What do you think, Russell? Did you love it as well?
[Russell Wetanson, Pop Culture Expert, "popsquire.com":] Absolutely. I actually know how they did it. It`s really an extra sketch in real life. And so they shake and start it over. I think what we can do is we can diagnose a new disorder, OMD, obsessive map disorder. And that`s what we`ve seen come out of this election.
[Hammer:] Yes. We don`t know if John King has to go into treatment for once this thing is completely over. We`ll have to wait and see. All right. Let`s move in our countdown. Number four on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s countdown of the top five funniest "SNL" moments from campaign 2008. A truly hilarious skit a Hillary Clinton-Amy Poehler sketch when Hillary stood alongside Amy Poehler who was impersonating Hillary. Watch.
[Sen. Hillary Clinton , Former Presidential Candidate:] Tonight, I just want to relax, have fun, not worry about the campaign.
[Poehler:] So no politics?
[Clinton:] No politics, but I would like to take this opportunity to say to all Americans, be they from the great state of Ohio or Texas, Rhode Island live from New York, it is Saturday night!
[Hammer:] Amy Poehler making that pantsuit come alive. Lisa, viewers really got to see Hillary Clinton`s humorous side in the sketch. Of course, didn`t really help her out in the long run, did it?
[Bloom:] No, it didn`t. But I think Amy Poehler is also one of the great unsung comedians of this campaign. Tina Fey grabbed the spotlight. But Amy Poehler did the terrific moose rap. She did the great Hillary Clinton impression. She even did Katie Couric. And my favorite part about sketch that unfortunately wasn`t in the clip is where she does the Hillary Clinton laugh and Hillary Clinton just stood there and had to smile.
[Hammer:] Yes. And you know, we`ve been talking a lot about Tina Fey, obviously, because of her Sarah Palin impersonations over the course of this campaign. Amy Poehler`s gotten some mileage out of, too.
[Bloom:] Yes, nine months pregnant, too.
[Hammer:] Yes. We`re going to watch her star rise when she`s back from her little pregnancy leave. Well, in at number three on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s countdown of the top five funniest "SNL" moments of the campaign, the Tina Fey-Katie Couric skit. Tina Fey impersonates Sarah Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric, which of course includes the now famous question that Katie asked Sarah about the Bush doctrine. Let`s watch this.
[Fey:] There were some funny moments. For instance, I had 15 to 20 false alarms where I thought I saw Osama Bin Laden driving a taxi. Also, in an effort to bone up on foreign policy, I went to the Times Square area to see a film called "The Bush Doctrine." It was not about politics.
[Hammer:] All right. Russell, over to you. Another priceless moment on "SNL." Which part was funnier to you, the part about "Bush Doctrine" or seeing Osama Bin Laden, the taxi driver.
[Wetanson:] You know, it`s really a toss-up, but I have to go with the Osama Bin Laden taxi driver. Because in one line, you have commentary about not finding Osama Bin Laden, concern about Sarah Palin`s foreign experience and it`s all in one line. That`s comedic genius and writing in one line.
[Hammer:] Yes. And Lisa Bloom, over to you. We`ve talked about it throughout the campaign, one of the things that made many of these moments brilliant is the fact that they were using some real language from the campaign, some real language that Sarah Palin was using, of course.
[Bloom:] Well, that`s right. They used many of her own lines verbatim and you did have to wonder as a native of Alaska how much she came into contact with people of other nationalities like we do here in New York. She just talked about how New York seemed so very different from her hometown.
[Hammer:] Yes.
[Bloom:] So it`s not that much of a stretch.
[Hammer:] And as I`ve said before, funny yet sad at the same time. We`re not done yet. We do have Amy Poehler with some more action. She`s in at number two on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s countdown of the top five funniest "SNL" moments of the campaign. In at number two, the now infamous Sarah Palin moment talking about her qualifications to be vice president. Watch this.
[Fey:] You know, Hillary and I don`t agree on everything
[Poehler:] Anything. I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy.
[Fey:] And I can see Russia from my house.
[Hammer:] Lisa, back to you, will Sarah Palin ever live that down?
[Bloom:] That was the key line of this campaign. Sarah Palin never actually said, "I can see Russia from my house." She did say, "You can see Russia from parts of Alaska." I think most people after that "SNL" clip was played over and over again actually thought that Sarah Palin said that. The remarkable thing was she didn`t back down in the second interview. She really did maintain the proximity to Russia gave her foreign policy experience. I think this was devastating to her.
[Hammer:] Yes. Russell, appropriate to be there at number two?
[Wetanson:] Absolutely. I mean, you can imagine so many lines being funny. I mean, you almost wish Sarah Palin said, "Well, I was in model at U.N. I had a pen pal." You know, most of us see a Starbucks or something like that from our backyard. But Russia is a neighbor to Alaska. It`s more like a tourism booklet than it is a campaign for vice president.
[Hammer:] All right. We`ve got move on now because we have arrived at the funniest moment on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s countdown of the top five funniest "SNL" moments. This is number one from the campaign and let`s just roll it.
[Poehler:] When I say Obama, you say Ayers Obama
[Chorus:] Ayers.
[Poehler:] Obama
[Chorus:] Ayers.
[Poehler:] I built me a bridge, it ain`t going nowhere.
[Chorus:] Oh.
[Poehler:] McCain and Palin they`re going to put the nail in the coffin of the media elite.
[Chorus:] She likes red meat.
[Poehler:] Shoot low humping moose.
[Unidentified Male:] Now you`re dead
[Hammer:] All right. Let`s run that back. You`ve got the real Sarah Palin. You`ve got some moose hunters. You`ve got a Todd Palin look-alike. And of course, you have a giant moose. Lisa Bloom, for you, does it get any funnier than this?
[Bloom:] I`m telling you. Amy Poehler was really a star. Can we talk about Amy? Nine months pregnant bringing it as a rapper. Hitting the bullet shots on the moose and never breaking her character at all. I mean, this is just a terrific moment for her. Very funny. And by the way, "SNL" seemed to be a little bit more friendly to the Republicans, I think, in the last couple of weeks.
[Hammer:] Yes, I guess maybe they saw the writing on the wall. I don`t know. Ten seconds for you, Russell Wetanson. Clearly number one?
[Wetanson:] It`s all about the dance moves. Sarah Palin talks a lot. "Dancing With The Stars" is next if today doesn`t go so well for sure.
[Hammer:] And a certain humor in Sarah Palin raising the roof during that sketch. Lisa Bloom, Russell Wetanson, thanks for being here, guys. And thanks for raising the roof along with us. All right, Brooke. Our top five countdown coverage continues tonight.
[Anderson:] That`s right, A.J. Next, we are counting down the things that we just did not see coming.
[Hilton:] Hey, America, I`m Paris Hilton and I`m a celebrity, too. Only, I`m not from the olden days and I`m not promising change like that other guy. I`m just hot.
[Anderson:] Yes, who can forget the "Paris for president" videos? But that`s just the beginning. Straight ahead, we are counting down the top five things we did not see coming during the campaign.
[Hammer:] And that includes how influential "The View" became. On Election Day itself, no exception the co-hosts really went at it today. Wait until you hear how the ladies went bonkers when Elisabeth brought up Rev. Wright. That`s coming up.
[Anderson:] And there`s one contest among the candidates that you may not have heard about it. The results are in for which candidates` cabbage patch doll is the most popular. So who won this very important race? It was a complete landslide and we will have the results still to come on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.