When Tina Fey won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, she credited Sarah Palin for her success, saying "I would be a liar and an idiot if I didn't thank Sarah Palin for helping get me here tonight." For folks watching the ceremony on PBS, the discussion of Palin ended on that magnanimous note. Only the audience got to hear Fey subsequently rip into the mama grizzly for her stance on evolution, gay marriage, and rape kits. (PBS says everyone's speech got cut since the show was going over time.) Skip to 12:30 in the video below for the jokes that were too hot for public broadcasting.

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