Palin wanted to interview Tina Fey on ‘SNL’

Sarah Palin wanted to go head to head with Tina Fey on “Saturday Night Live” despite objections from the show’s producers, according to a new book about the former GOP vice presidential candidate.

For her appearance on the NBC comedy show, aides tossed around the idea of having Palin assume the role of a journalist interviewing Palin, as played by Fey.

This idea was vetoed by “SNL” producers, according to Sarah from Alaska, a new book by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe that traces Palin’s rise in national politics. Ultimately, Palin and Fey appeared on camera together for only a few seconds during an October 2008 episode.

Aides also “balked at her planned interaction with actor Alec Baldwin,” a liberal who, in 2000, threatened to leave the country if George W. Bush was elected president.

On the show, Baldwin said to Palin: “Forgive me, but I feel I must say this. You are way hotter in person.”

Palin’s campaign wanted her to respond with: “Hey, weren’t you supposed to move to France after the election?” but the show’s producers settled on: “Oh, thank you. And I must say your brother Stephen is my favorite Baldwin.”

The book also reports that Palin’s children were not informed of their mother’s decision to join the GOP ticket. Instead, they were told they were “going to Ohio to celebrate their parents’ twenty-fifth wedding anniversary” and were thus all “tired, unprepared and underdressed” for the media blitz when the announcement was made.

Stylist Lisa Kline also addresses the controversy over the cost of clothes Palin wore on the campaign trail.

When “Palin ... expressed concern over the exorbitant expense of some” of the items, Kline and Palin’s assistant removed the price tags to keep her unaware of the cost.

Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue, is due out Nov. 17.

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