“I love to play strippers and to imitate them. I love using that idea for comedy, but the idea of actually going there? I feel like we all need to be better than that. That industry needs to die, by all of us being a little bit better than that.”
- Tina Fey says she’s no fan of stripclubs in her recent Vanity Fair interview.
Fey’s Palin character helped Saturday Night Live’s ratings skyrocket this season with viewership up a whopping 70%. Ratings for Fey’s show, 30 Rock, also rose 20%.
She names her television show as the main reason she will not continue with the Palin impersonation. “I have to retire just because I have to do my day job.”
Her spot-on impression of Palin was so good that we can’t imagine anyone else even attempting it. But when asked who she would likely pass the torch to, she replied,
“I think [Kristen] Wiig would do a really good job. Maybe we could get a real torch. Or I could give Wiig the Palin wig.”
[HI]
Saturday Night Live scored its highest ratings in 14 years, it’s highest since Nancy Kerrigan hosted the show in 1994.
I still cannot get over Tina Fey’s dead on impression of Palin. She not only looks a helluva lot like her, she’s nailed the accent!
Tina Fey, how can you not love her?
Tina made the cover of Parade, and in it she talks shop – with a dash of saucy sarcasm, of course.
On not being able to have it all:
“I think my generation has been slightly tricked in that you’re really encouraged to try to have it all. And sometimes your body will not let you wait as long as you want.”
On her 43-day maternity leave and return to Saturday Night Live:
“I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I only have a verbal agreement.”
On how she intends on capitalizing on her fame:
“I often feel like a complete fool. I’m here laboring over this tiny show so much, and around me people are making money by the fistful. It’s like, ‘Oh, man, how can I turn my personality into a line of crappy products?’ Rachael Ray sells, like, spoons. I could sell pencils.”
I’d buy your pencils, Tina.
Playboy magazine interviews Tina Fey in the January 2008 issue of Playboy, and as usual, the feisty TV star pulls no punches.
Her victim? Train wreck Paula Abdul. Fey says that Abdul was a nightmare to work with during an episode of SNL in 2005.
“I was pregnant [with daughter Alice] at the time and probably a little moody, but I remember thinking, ‘She’s a disaster! I gotta prop this lady up and get her on TV.’“
She went on to describe Abdul as difficult. “It was an American Idol sketch, and she wanted to change parts. So Amy Poehler had to play her.”
A year later, the two women ran into each other at an airport. It was just as lovely then.
“We both looked at each other like, ‘Do I know that girl?’” she said. “And then we both had that moment of recognition, and she was like, ‘uuuggh.’ I saw it register on her face that she had had a terrible time with us.”
I’m just surprised Paula remembered her, or that she was even on SNL.
(Yay, it’s almost January…almost time for American Idol…which means it’s almost time to rip on Paula Abdul on a regular basis again!)
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From Tina Fey and Shanna Moakler.
Oh…and these are gooood!
First off, Shanna…
“The ongoing feud between Paris Hilton and former Miss USA Shanna Moakler has gone beyond the level of “No she didn’t,” climbing into “Oh, yes she did” territory.
When X17 asked Shanna if she had anything to say to Paris Wednesday night, Shanna advised her frenemy to “take her Valtrex.” (Valtrex is an anti-herpes drug.)”
Then Tina really gets in some good jabs..
“Tina Fey, the former head writer of Saturday Night Live, and creator and star of the new NBC show, 30 Rock, dropped by Howard Stern’s Sirius Satellite radio show on Wednesday to share her thoughts on various past SNL guest hosts.
She revealed that Paris Hilton asked the writers to make a skit in which she could play Jessica Simpson “because I hate her…she’s fat.” Fey also claims that Paris was so self-centered that staffers had a bet going on as to whether she would ask anyone something personal (like “How are you?”) during her week on-set. They only lost when she asked, “Is Maya Rudolph Italian?” (she’s half Black, half Jewish).
On Paris Hilton:
HS: What is Paris Hilton like?
TF: She’s a piece of sh-t. The people at SNL were like maybe she’ll be fun, maybe she won’t take herself so seriously. She takes herself so seriously! She’s unbelievably dumb and so proud of how dumb she is. She looks like a tranny up close.
HS: Was she bad on SNL, was she hard to deal with?
TF: She was awful. People never come in and say “I’m not doing that.” So, this guy Jim Downey wrote a really really funny sketch, it was supposed to be Lorne Michaels just finding out that she had a sex tape and telling her she couldn’t host the show because SNL has standards… So she was like “I’m not doing it!” and refused to come out of her dressing room. Also, you would walk down the hall and find what just looked like nasty wads of Barbie hair on the stairs… Her hair is like a Fraggle.
HS: Did she give you ideas for sketches?
TF: Yeah, she wanted to make fun of all the girls she hates. She was like “I want to play Jessica Simpson, I hate her.” She would come in the room and say “you should do a show about Jessica Simpson because she’s fat.”
HS: What was the bet you guys had going about her?
TF: The cast had a bet if she would ask anyone on the cast anything about themselves, you know like how are you? where are you from? anything. I think Seth Meyers won because at one point, she asked him if Maya Rudolf was Italian.”
