I loved this moment when she "locked and loaded" the gun, it was a real turn on ...
Posted on 04/13/2011 6:10:33 AM PDT by wmileo
Tina Fey may have been the darling of the left for her Emmy-winning impersonations of Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live.” But the comedic actress-director is now expressing regrets about her Palin pokes in her new book, “Bossypants.” As a matter of fact, Fey suspects that mimicking the former Alaska governor may have hurt the ratings of her NBC sitcom, “30 Rock.” “Some may argue that exploiting Governor Palin and her family helped bring attention to my low-rated TV show,” Fey writes in an excerpt published in USA Today. “I am proud to say you are wrong. My TV show still enjoys very low ratings.” “In fact, I think the Palin stuff may have hurt the TV show. Let’s face it, between Alec Baldwin and me there is a certain fifty percent of the population who think we are pinko Commie monsters,”
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Hmmm...biased at several points (not usually actually), having the perpetually unfunny Tracy Morgan front-and-center, a weak third season (mostly because it literally leaned left, which ruined the show’s balance), all true, but stupid? No. Witty at many points. Savagely funny against NBC in particular and sitcoms in general, yes. Sparkling acting from the secondary characters? You betcha, especially the intern.
You won’t want to, but if you wanted to have an informed opinion (and have enjoyed yourself) you’d watch a few episodes. The first season midway is your best bet for getting something conservatives could watch, enjoy and not cringe at.
And, if a cruel laugh at Alec and Tina is your piece of cake, try to find the episode in which Jeff Dunham guested. He eats them alive, especially Tina, whose character richly deserves it in situ.
And I bet she knows how to clean house too!
Thanks! I'm really looking forward to being home for a while.
And on your recommendation, I'll pick up "30 Rock" at the Haji-Mart. they'll have it all the way to the latest televised season (that's the beauty of bootlegs - and they're good quality and cheap, too.)
I'm still here for a few more weeks - I can probably get through a lot of it if not all of it.
I just finished "Weeds" Season 6, so I'm looking for something new to watch in the evenings.
It is to watch!
NewsRadio rocked! Very, very funny. Today, it’s the Big Bang Theory. Another very funny sitcom.
I’m glad your bootleg sources are ok. We thought we were buying a complete package of “Bones” up through season five. It was, except it was bootlegged from Communist China and still had the local station bugs in the corner of the screen! The special features didn’t work and some of the episode quality was suspect.
I like some of Weeds. Isn’t Kevin Nealon in a recurring role there? They guy I’m thinking of is good but I may be confusing him with another SNL alum.
Yes, indeed. Kaley Cuoco turns out to be quite a comedienne. Not quite Alyson Hannigan, but pretty good.
What's it about?
I’m happy you enjoy it.
Very astute and very accurate.
Differenc of opinion. :>) I think Kaley Cuoco is better than Alyson Hannigan. I especially liked Kaley in the first season of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. She was a wonderful foil for John Ritter.
"I once had a dog that had no nose."
"How did it smell?"
"Awful!"
Well, guess it’s a matter of taste. I find Alyson’s humor to be deeper and subtler. Perhaps from being in the biz longer and having worked in drama (Buffy is sort of a drama, yes?). If you can wring comedy out of something like Buffy, then How I Met Your Mother will be slumming (which to me Lily is doing). Kaley was marvelous in 8 Simple Rules, but it was harder to see because the whole cast was top-notch. When your mom is played by Katie Segal and your dad by John Ritter, the bar is set pretty high. But, she did stand tall and even wangled a few good narrative arcs.
Good on her. Just wish she could get better film roles.
Dear Tina:
Your argument is at odds with logic, space, and time. The premiere of 30 Rock pre-dated anyone knowing Sarah Palin’s name (outside of Alaskans). And your ratings sucked then.
They suck a little less now, after you introduced your parody. If anything, you should be thanking Mrs. Palin for the slight uptick in your still dismal ratings.
Signed,
Logic, Space and Time.
P.S. Your show is a smug, unfunny, inside-baseball hollow crapfest no one likes. Hence the low ratings. Mystery solved.
What goes around comes around.
Ha Ha Ha
She can be taught.
NBCU must be at the point where they realize dividing 30 percent of the entire pie between the other pinko commie monster networks isn’t a viable business plan.
SNL was pretty good until they started going after politicians, starting with Ford. I didn’t like the Clinton stuff either. Belushi, Aykroyd, Morris, etc. didn’t need politics to win. It used to be appointment TV.
As for 30 Rock, would never watch it, just to see it bankrupt. I notice Couric’s going the way of Gore TV. Won’t be long before she’s anchoring that with Dan Rather somewhere.
Wow! Here, here!
I was just thinking the other day that the studios could make bazillions in digitizing their vaults and getting it on either the net or the street.
One reason I think they don’t is that they are recycling a TREMENDOUS amount of it.
Watch TCM quite a bit. It’s catch as catch can.
TCM is good that way, but NetFlix is the bomb. I’ve watched films as old as the Melies shorts (as in 1898). It was how I found Metropolis and Dr. Mabuse. My list runs to hundreds of films now mostly in noir and mystery just because I’m old and I like twisty unexpected plot twists with clever dialogue.
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