Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin Remarks Cut by PBS (Video)

In a taped ceremony of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday, PBS chopped recipient Tina Fey‘s remarks regarding Sarah Palin.

Now an executive producer of the broadcast tells the Washington Post the move had nothing to do with politics. “It was not a political decision,” Peter Kaminsky says. “We had zero problems with anything she said.”

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Kaminsky says the 90-minute show ran almost 20 minutes over time. “We took a lot out. We snipped from everyone.”

The specific “snips” Fey’s speech incurred are apt to raise eyebrows, though. Read on.

Tina Fey thanked Sarah Palin for her own comedic success, referencing a recurring, dead-on impression on ‘Saturday Night Live‘ during the 2008 election.

“I would be a liar and an idiot if I didn’t thank Sarah Palin for helping get me here tonight,” Fey said. “My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that ever happened to me.”

Then she forged ahead to more brazenly anti-Palin territory: “Politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women … unless you’re a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years — whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know, actually, I take it back. The whole thing’s a disaster.”

Those remarks were trimmed significantly, leaving PBS viewers with a tamer, less potentially offensive bit from Fey: “I’m so proud to represent American humor, I am proud to be an American, and I am proud to make my home in the ‘not real’ America. And I am most proud that during trying times, like an orange [terror] alert, a bad economy or a contentious election that we as a nation retain our sense of humor.”

Tina Fey is the third woman to win the Mark Twain Prize since its inception 12 years ago; at 40, she is also the youngest honoree.

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Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin Remarks Cut by PBS (Video)

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