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This Pop Culture Rewind doesn't venture too far into the past but takes you just far enough to just before Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin was conceived.

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In this flashback we see Fey interviewed on the set of SNL during a guest appearance in 2008, a year in which she would later set the world into a roar of laughter with her hilarious, spot-on Sarah Palin impersonation.

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We see Fey talking about how the show could possibly parody John McCain in light of his recent presidential instatement.

"An election year is always a great year for Saturday Night Live," Fey said.

"Great" was quite the understatement. A few months later, Fey created NBC's most-watched video viral video ever with 5.7 million views the following Wednesday after her first Palin impersonation.

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