Posted on 06/02/2010 9:54:18 AM PDT by Nachum
Are they kidding?
That was my first thought when I heard The Kennedy Center had named Tina Fey the 2010 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last week. Fey will receive the honor in Washington D.C. on November 9. The ceremony will subsequently be broadcast on PBS as it has been since 2000.
The Mark Twain Prize was established in 1998 "to recognize those who create humor from their uniquely American experiences." Past recipients include Richard Pryor, Carl Reiner, Bob Newhart, Lily Tomlin and Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels.
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Scarface sucks.
Let’s not kid ourselves. There’s only one reason Fey wins this award.
Tina Fey belongs nowhere in the same ballpark as these four..
They’re just now figuring this out????
If not for Sarah Palin, the response to the words, Tina Fey would be, who?
I thought the “I can see Russia from my house” line was hilarious.
But that’s about it.
Exactly!!
fey is just a slut for the left.
LLS
no--she's pretty well-known... but perhaps not in these circles... the first time i saw a pic of Sarah Palin on FR, i said, she looks like Tina Fey... this was before she was the VP nominee...
In Hollywood, delivering ad hominem attacks aimed at Sarah Palin, Christians, and all conservatives amounts to being “funny”.
Fortunately, I could give a care.
The ancient Greeks understood the power of satire; Aristotle wrote extensively on the subject, and Aristophones made a career out of it. (And we’re still reading “The Clouds” thousands of years later.) The Romans used satire in their political campaigns to devastating effect. Nobody comes back from being laughed at.
Like her or not, Fey helped destroy Sarah Palin’s chances in the last election through classical satire. And since it was on television, it’s all people are going to remember.
/I thought transposing a Palin impersonation with a rather vicious parody of the Hildebeast was rather clever. (”Please stop calling me ‘b***r killer.’)
Tina Fey should be thanking the Almighty for her resemblance to Sarah Palin otherwise Ms Fey would be doing stand up at a Asian strip club.
Obama got the Nobel Peace prize. It’s a good thing he got it before he did anything; it would look even more absurd now than it when he got it.
I thought her Palin impressions were hilarious, and I am an admirer of Governor Palin! Go figure.
It just shows the music industry is right although they are not her talent; that you make a pig sing well.
Notice that every recipient of the Mark Twain Award has been a left-winger. Nothing for anyone like Kelsey Grammer, a genuinely funny conservative. Like the Pulitzer Prize, the Oscar for Best Documentary and the Nobel Peace Prize, it's awarded for political purposes to the people who best serve the agenda.
She is to a lot of people.
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