By GottaLaff
Someone get me a box of tissues, because I'm about to laugh so hard I will literally stream tears all over the wine- and coffee-stained Victoria's Secret catalog sitting on my desk. Too much info?
Not compared to this Goofus and Gallant comparison of Tina Fey to you-know-who:
Liberal-leaning feminists, especially comic Tina Fey, the 30 Rock star who portrayed Palin on Saturday Night Live, were jealous of Palin. "Palin's sudden global fame rankled those feminists whose own path to glory had been difficult. To them, Palin was less a female success story than she was the beneficiary of male chauvinism," writes Continetti. He holds out Fey and her TV character for special criticism. "It was telling that Fey should be the actress who impersonated Palin. The two women may look like each other, but they could not be more dissimilar. [...]
Palin comes from the I-can-do-it-all school. She is professionally successful, has been married for more than 20 years, and has a large and (from all outward appearances) happy family. And while Fey is also pretty, married, and has a daughter, the characters she portrays in films like Mean Girls and Baby Mama, and in television shows like 30 Rock, are hard-pressed eggheads who give up personal fulfillment—e.g., marriage and motherhood—in the pursuit of professional success," he writes. "On 30 Rock [...] None of her relationships with men works out. She wants desperately to raise a child but can find neither the time nor the means to marry or adopt. Lemon makes you laugh, for sure. But you also would be hard pressed to name a more unhappy person on American TV."
Oh my.
This is comedy gold. Pathetic, unintentional comedy gold, but comedy gold just the same.
Let me see if I can say this slowly enough for the author to understand: "30 Rock" is a Tee Vee show. It's fake. Liz Lemon is a character, a fantasy. So are the women in "Mean Girls" and "Baby Mama".
Tina Fey is an ac-tress. Say it with me, ac... tress.
Her characters' lack of fulfillment are the products of her writers' (and her own) imaginations set down on paper for pure entertainment value. Her "unhappiness" is a story vehicle. See?
Barbie McLipSchmutz, on the other hand, just
thinks of herself as real.
There is lots and lots more
here.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go set my DVR to record a completely made-up show with completely made-up words spoken by a completely made-up character portrayed by an actress.
Oh, and maybe after I'm done recording one of Palin's speeches, I'll set my DVR for "30 Rock" too.