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Post by Admin on May 10, 2020 18:57:45 GMT
Tina Fey stopped by Weekend Update on last night’s Saturday Night Live season finale with some very needed quarantine commentary, covering everything from her newfound love of passwords (“All my passwords are a little bit different and beautiful in their own way and I see that now. Also my kids are here”) to a useful baking life hack (“If you’re baking cookies and you don’t have any flour, you can just go to bed. Yeah. You can all just shut your mouths and go to bed”).
Fey also confesses to “making up gibberish” instead of teaching her kids Latin, and has a good laugh over the fact that “three months ago, everyone was so worried about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.” She closes things out by offering a special prayer for Mother’s Day: “This pandemic is far from over and there will be many emotional ups-and-downs. Ride those waves, mothers. Ride them like a day-drunk boomer at a currently open Georgia water park.” Amen.
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Post by Admin on May 11, 2020 19:38:48 GMT
Former Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update host Tina Fey has returned to the iconic set at 30 Rockefeller several times since leaving the long-running variety show in 2006, but on Saturday night, Fey marked a first by appearing on Weekend Update from the privacy of her own home. The writer, actor and comedian returned for the season finale of SNL and gave her take on the ongoing quarantine like only Tina Fey can.
Don’t have any flour to make cookies? You can just go to bed. Fey appeared alongside current Weekend Update host Michael Che and hilariously covered a laundry list of topics in less than four minutes, including her commitment to remaining upbeat. “Like so many of us, I’m trying to focus on the positive. This is a historic time, an opportunity to be still and focus on what really matters in life. For example, I’m getting to spend so much time with my passwords: Apple ID, Hulu, Nintendo, Slack, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Spectrum Cable, Amazon, that other stupid Amazon app for watching things,” joked Fey. “All my passwords are a little bit different and beautiful in their own ways and I see that now. Also, my kids are here.”
Former Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update host Tina Fey has returned to the iconic set at 30 Rockefeller several times since leaving the long-running variety show in 2006, but on Saturday night, Fey marked a first by appearing on Weekend Update from the privacy of her own home. The writer, actor and comedian returned for the season finale of SNL and gave her take on the ongoing quarantine like only Tina Fey can. Don’t have any flour to make cookies? You can just go to bed. Fey appeared alongside current Weekend Update host Michael Che and hilariously covered a laundry list of topics in less than four minutes, including her commitment to remaining upbeat. “Like so many of us, I’m trying to focus on the positive. This is a historic time, an opportunity to be still and focus on what really matters in life. For example, I’m getting to spend so much time with my passwords: Apple ID, Hulu, Nintendo, Slack, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Spectrum Cable, Amazon, that other stupid Amazon app for watching things,” joked Fey. “All my passwords are a little bit different and beautiful in their own ways and I see that now. Also, my kids are here.”
The mother of two has been struggling like every other parent to remember anything, literally anything from her elementary, junior high and high school years. Fey has even resorted to making up gibberish in an attempt to teach her daughter Latin, which is a homeschooling hack will definitely be copying. As for how quickly things have changed since COVID-19 became a global pandemic, Fey reminded viewers of simpler times. “When the news is too much and I need to laugh, I like to think about three months ago when everyone was so worried about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. You’re free, guys! No one cares who pays for your Vancouver security detail anymore,” joked Fey. “I can’t even remember what they looked like. I think they both had eyes?” Fey closed out her appearance only hours before the start of Mother’s Day in North America by offering a prayer for her fellow moms. “Give us the grace to accept the things that cannot be changed – like the sheets. I’ve changed them like eight times now. I can’t do it anymore,” said Fey.
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Post by Admin on May 11, 2020 23:44:56 GMT
Tina Fey is hosting Rise Up New York!, a virtual telethon benefit being presented by Robin Hood and iHeartMedia. The event, which aims to support New Yorkers impacted by COVID-19, will air live citywide and nationwide tonight (May 11) from 7-8 PM ET. The telethon, featuring A-list appearances and musical performances, will air across various outlets including all New York City TV stations, iHeartMedia and Entercom broadcast radio stations, News 12, Spectrum News NY1, and nationally on CNBC and SiriusXM. (See the full list of outlets below.) Fey, who tested her Zoom connection during a segment on Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update this weekend, will preside over a guest list that includes New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Barbara Streisand, Ben Platt, Bette Midler, Jennifer Lopez, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Chris Rock, Danny Meyer, Eli Manning, Idina Menzel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jimmy Fallon, John Mulaney, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robert De Niro, Salt-N-Pepa, Spike Lee, Julianne Moore, Trevor Noah and more.
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Post by Admin on May 19, 2020 19:02:03 GMT
In the “Reunion” episode of 30 Rock, Jack Donaghy is able to blend in with Liz Lemon’s high-school class because, he explains, “rich 50 is middle-class 38.” By that logic, Tina Fey turns 38 today. And what a 38 years it’s been!
Since becoming the first woman to serve as Saturday Night Live head writer and especially after broadcasting a fictionalized version of her SNL tenure on 30 Rock, Fey has been a highly visible member of the upper echelons of comedy. She is the rare writer-actress who is respected by industry peers, lauded by critics, and rewarded by awards shows who is also commercially successful and stars-in-AmEx-ads-level famous. Now her repertoire has expanded to books (well, one book so far) and Broadway musicals (well, one musical so far), and she’s followed in the footsteps of her longtime producer Lorne Michaels by executive producing her colleagues’ projects.
As one of the most influential writers of our time crosses the Sally O’Malley Line (at home! She stayed in the city!), here’s look through 50 of her funniest jokes, best performances, most interesting quotes, revealing moments, and important contributions to comedy, plus a few fun facts for the die-hards.
Fey was hired for the SNL writing staff in 1997 and promoted to head writer in 2000, at which point she started appearing in sketches and co-anchoring “Weekend Update.” If you’ve read Bossypants, you might remember the anecdote about this sketch, but if not, let me summarize: The male writers of SNL didn’t understand this sketch … because they couldn’t visualize an old-school sanitary pad. Eventually Fey figured out that it was an issue of ignorance, not humor, and got the sketch on air, exemplifying the need both for diversity in writers’ rooms and for giving men the (occasional) benefit of the doubt. Sometimes they just don’t get it.
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Post by Admin on May 20, 2020 6:53:38 GMT
Fey coined the term “mom jeans” long before skinny hipsters made them trendy. This commercial parody works on its own and also completes the niche trifecta of SNL Commercial Parodies for Hypothetical Denim with “Jewess Jeans” and “Bad Idea Jeans.” When Fallon left SNL in 2004, the show sent him off with a Grease spoof in which he and “Weekend Update” co-anchor Fey played Danny and Sandy. The following season, Fallon returned to pick up his son, Lorne, who is basically a mini-Tina (“If he has a nightmare, just play him that Nichols and May DVD”). They lean so far into their personas as deadbeat dad and mom-who’s-moved-on (with Amy Poehler!) they almost make out, showcasing the chemistry that made them such a popular pair behind the “Update” desk.
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