19 Responses to “Tina Fey Should Talk (Less)”

1. 1 Pastafarian Mar 19th, 2008 at 11:32 am

   Tina Fey should look into getting some new glasses. The whole hot secretary look is what 10-12 years old now? She’s still hot, but maybe she should switch to plaid micro mini-skirts or something. I can picture it now. Gotta go!

2. 2 C. Mar 19th, 2008 at 11:45 am

   It was a joke. The entire article is filled with Tina Fey-isms.

3. 3 Holly Won't Mar 19th, 2008 at 11:53 am

   I believe it because it wasn’t funny.

4. 4 The Oversneer Mar 19th, 2008 at 11:54 am

   I have to back up my home-girl Holly on this one. Click here for the RD interview. I think she was slamming Jon Stewart. Or at least his writers.

5. 5 Pastafarian Mar 19th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

   Wow that’s a lot of words. I’m not reading that. I think Jon Stewart is only mildly funny at best anyway so I agree with the summarized version of what she said.

   And if you really want to make some people mad, tell ‘em you think Stephen Colbert sucks(I do). It’s a good, fun way to start trouble at parties in Wrigleyville.

6. 6 Mars Mar 19th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

   Pasta, if I’m ever at a Cubs game and someone starts bashing Stephen Colbert, I’ll totally chime in. I got your back.

   Still think Jon’s funnier than Tina though. Sorry..

7. 7 Anonymous Mar 19th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

   Having worked on SNL I know there is no laugh track. Tina is an extremely talented comedian and the comment in RD was a joke. Jon of course is talented and as a comedian recognized the joke for what it was. Now go accomplish something before you tear people down. Thanks!

8. 8 Tina Fey...Suck my c*ck Mar 19th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

   She’s completely over-rated, not funny, a b*tch and has a disgustingly ugly shaped *ss. F*cking deformed b*tch!

9. 9 Rocko Mar 19th, 2008 at 11:40 pm

   Having worked on SNL, you say there’s not laugh track? Then what do they do, release some nitrous oxide into the studio? Because SNL isn’t funny. I should know, I stopped watching that show ages ago because it wasn’t.

   Stephen Colbert delivers his jokes better than Jon Stewart, but I’d rather watch Tina Fey than either of them and that’s because she’s a girl.

10. 10 Lily Mar 20th, 2008 at 12:25 am

    Oh lord people, it was clearly a joke. Her and Jon are good friends, and Colbert even helped to train her when she first entered Second City.

    And she never said Stewart wasn’t funny, she said the Daily Show had ‘clapter’, which it does. So she pointed out something, and people go nuts. Really?

11. 11 Ali Mar 20th, 2008 at 12:44 am

    Oh yes, because Tina Fey really banks on her ass looking perfect, #8. Tina Fey still wears sexy librarian glasses, even though they’re soooo last year, because that’s what she’s always worn. What, you all aren’t used to a woman BEING HERSELF? Now that’s funny, right? Psh.

12. 12 Tina Fey (not really) Mar 20th, 2008 at 6:46 am

    I used to work at SNL while Jon Stewart was making lousy druggie and clown movies. Listen b*tches I worked my f***ing ass off to have a number one show on network. Jon boy is sucking hind t*t on fucking cable. I got a laugh track for his *ss. I’m laughing all the way to the bank, plus I got a great *ss and much better t*ts. To the guy who said I need new glasses, get a job pinhead, have you ever heard of branding?

13. 13 Ruby Mar 20th, 2008 at 7:44 am

    Well, I GUESS she could have been joking. Unfortunately I had to turn on my laugh track.

14. 14 C. Mar 20th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    I read the copy of Reader Digest at my boyfriend’s grandma’s house (I love Reader’s Digest), and it seemed like one of those jokes that comes across really badly in text but is easier to recognize with tone. Or maybe Tina Fey really doesn’t like Jon Stewart, which would make me sad.

15. 15 I love Tina Fey and want to be her friend Mar 21st, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    Anyone who has seen 30 Rock knows that Tina Fey is the master of self-deprecating humor. She lacks the arrogance and pomposity of such lesser lights as Jon Stewart and people like Letterman. I am shaking with excitement (really) about 30 Rock’s new episodes a few weeks from now. Tina is the type of person I could kick back with and enjoy a brewski or two. She’s not as funny as Colbert, however, his book was hilarious.

16. 16 Pastafarian Mar 21st, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    I must be missing something. I’m one of the approx. 294,000,000 people in the U.S. that doesn’t watch 30 Rock every week.

17. 17 docweasel Mar 22nd, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    I happen to agree with Fey. Stewart DOES go for cheap applause lines. He can tell “Bush is stupid” or “McCain is old” jokes all day long, and the monkeys will dance at the unoriginal, lame, trite, lazy humor. That show must be a snap to write for because you just bash Republicans and take light jabs at Democrats (they especially use kid gloves on Obama, notice no hard hitting parody of Wright forthcoming from the DS) and you get laughs and applause and even cheering all day long.

    Now let’s hear some more Cheney shot someone in the face and Bush is an idiot humor!

    btw, people who actually believe Bush is actually stupid are themselves retarded. Besides the fact he graduated from an Ivy League college with BETTER GRADES THAN JOHN KERRY btw, and also got better scores than Kerry (who is supposed to be some kind of brainiac) on his military tests: which probably explains why Bush flew jet fighters and Kerry ran a powerboat my little sister can steer.

    READ:

    Somewhere in Texas, a Village is missing its Idiot. I chose this one first since it’s the only one that has a particle of real wit. But the Bush is an idiot meme is very tired, and the most cursory look causes it to fall apart like — how can I make them understand? — like a lemon almond biscotti left too long in a grande’ caffe verona.

    For starters, you can of course point to the fact that the man did graduate from both Harvard and Yale, but that was with a C average, and clearly, the idea of being merely in the middle of the pack of those getting advanced degrees from America’s two preeminent universities cuts you no slack from those community-college theater major drop-outs who love to level the charge.

    So let’s leave that aside for a moment – Poppy’s connections and all that – and take a moment to look at this, if you will:

    This is a Convair F-102 Delta Dagger. It is a second-generation, supersonic fighter-interceptor. It cruises at 845 mph.

    There were some minor aerodynamic problems with the F-102. For example, at certain power settings and angles of attack – like, say, take-off – the jet compressor would stall and the aircraft would roll inverted. It is no picnic, skill-wise, to fly a modern F-16 with advanced avionics and fly-by-wire flight control systems. The workload on the F-102 was far higher. The F-16 has an accident rate of 4.14 occurrences per 100,000 flight hours. The F-102’s accident rate was more than three times that: 13.69 per 100,000 hours. 875 F-102A interceptors were built; 259 – almost 30% - were lost to accidents or enemy action while serving in Vietnam.

    George W. Bush flew hundreds of hours in the F-102.

    Now look at this:
    http://docweasel.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/jet02.png?w=220
    This is the cockpit of the F-102 Delta Dagger’s successor, the F-106 Delta Dart (I could not find an F-102 panel, but they would have been very similar)
    http://docweasel.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/jet01b.png
    Now, picture yourself in this chair, at 40,000 feet, traveling at one and a half times the speed of sound. Now imagine that someone has painted the windows white – you are flying on instruments. Now imagine that not only do you have to be able to fly blind, by referencing these instruments, but that you also have to stare into that orange jack-o-lantern of a radar, and interpret a squiggle that will lead you to your target. Now imagine that in addition to not hitting the ground, or your wingman, and watching the squiggle, you also have to turn those switches on the right side panel to activate weapons systems, to overcome enemy countermeasures…without looking outside, as you hurtle through air at -40 degrees F, air so thin that should you lose pressure, you have about 4-6 seconds of consciousness before you black out and die.

    I maintain that the instant George W. Bush closed that canopy and took off on the first of his many solo hours in an F-102, it is quite impossible that he was either an idiot or a coward.

    Here is a random question from the instrument rating exam I had to pass a few years ago.
    http://docweasel.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/map02b.png

    Refer to figure 91:

    What should be the approximate elapsed time from the BOSEMAN (BZN) VOR to the DUBOIS (DBS) VORTAC if the wind is 24 knots from 260 degrees and your intended True Air Speed is 185 knots? (The magnetic variation is 17deg. E)

    A. 33 minutes
    B. 37 minutes
    C. 39 minutes

    (It’s C., obviously)

    If he had been a civilian rather than military pilot, Dubya would have had to have passed 60 questions like this with at least 70% correct. Questions on weather, radio communications, mechanical systems, aerodynamics, pilot physiology, airspace, navigation and a hundred other things. But, since he was military, he also had to know how to operate that primitive in-flight radar, plus weapons systems, rules of engagement, electronic warfare, hydraulics, fuel systems…it goes on and on.

    People like Michael Moore and Bill Maher and Keith Olberman would not be able to figure out how to close the canopy on an F-102. These people would be weeping with fear when those afterburners light up and you barrel down that runway hoping that engine doesn’t flame out and roll you inverted into the asphalt, or when you’re rocketing through the soup at 300mph watching two little needles chase each other, praying the next thing you see out the window is a runway and not a mountain goat.

    George W. Bush is not stupid. It’s not possible to be a moron and fly a supersonic jet fighter, and everyone knows it.

    What George W. Bush is, however, is inarticulate. English is his second language. From what I can see he does not have a first language. Abraham Lincoln spoke in simple frontier language in an age of rhetorical flourish. Like Bush, he was considered a bumpkin and an idiot, and like Bush, he realized that there were times when having people misunderestimate you repeatedly was a real advantage. That’s goal-oriented. That’s playing the deep game. That’s cunning.

    I personally have gotten to the point where Bush’s malapropisms cause me to look at the floor and shake my head with an affectionate smile, in much the same way supporters of his predecessor used to do with every new revelation of coerced sex from former employees. He is what he is. But he is a damn sight more intelligent than the graphic designer in the Mini Cooper with the Village Idiot sticker. Me, personally, I look at the man’s entire catalog of flaws in the same way Lincoln looked at Grant and his drinking: I can’t spare this man. He fights.

    So to me, anyway, given the above information I feel that anyone calling President Bush a moron and an idiot comes off sounding like…well…a moron and an idiot.

18. 18 Anonymous Apr 26th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

    Humor like art is subjective so even if you personally think Ms. Fey isn’t funny it does not make it fact. Also I can reaffirm that there is no laugh track on SNL and the sheer amount of work that goes into putting on that show is unparalleled. Just relax and on a side note if you are going to try and turn people into hypocrites in the public eye at least pick the lazy and untalented.

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