Tina Fey<\/a> admits she took \u201cthe wrong side\u201d with some of her past \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d<\/a> jokes, but insists that her uncanny impersonation of former Republican presidential running mate Sarah Palin<\/a> was a \u201cfair hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fey looked back on her tenure in Studio 8H during the History Talks celebration in Philadelphia on Saturday. While discussing the show\u2019s political side, the Emmy-winner said that experiencing the first episode after September 11, an anthrax scare and the time President George W. Bush<\/a> met his \u201cSNL\u201d imitator, Will Ferrell,<\/a><\/span> made her realize it was impossible to completely separate their comedy from the real world it parodied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe show\u2019s relationship to current events became a thinner and thinner veil,\u201d said Fey, per Variety<\/a>. \u201cThey said something, we said something back. They\u2019d come over and go, \u2018We want to be on [the show] too.\u2019 It\u2019s thrilling, and almost a scary thing, that something you say will be heard by the person in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But Fey conceded that not all her bits had aged well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI mean, I\u2019ve made jokes, but also, I was pretty dumb and not much better now, but there\u2019s jokes that I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh yeah, I was on the wrong side of that.\u2019\u201d she said, per Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fey, who was a writer and a cast member from 1997 to 2006, also talked about striking the right balance between absurd and astute while playing Palin, who was a veritable gaffe magnet during Sen. John McCain\u2019s 2008 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe always worked really hard to make sure that we felt like they were what we would call \u2018a fair hit,\u2019\u201d Fey said about crafting the GOP caricature with writing partners Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers. \u201cIt only felt like it would work if it was based in something that was true.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Tina](\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/69e576361800007b3e5b2e72.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\")
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