"Sometimes I tell myself, 'Well, what would a guy do? He'd take it.'"
December 9, 2016 10:33 PM   Subscribe

The Tina Fey Interview, by David Letterman (Hollywood Reporter)

THR's Sherry Lansing Leadership Award honoree confesses to a fellow late-night pioneer her fear of bombing onstage (his response: "It's like I have a twin") as two comedy greats talk Trump's feud with Alec Baldwin ("dignity of a seventh-grader"), the "endless anxiety" of parenting and why TV is "better than movies."
posted by Johnny Wallflower (9 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
Love her so much. The title quote is literally something I have said out loud this week!
posted by ellieBOA at 1:00 AM on December 10, 2016 [2 favorites]


How I wish this was an audio interview.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 2:31 AM on December 10, 2016 [5 favorites]


About the Trump/Baldwin feud:

At one level, it just makes me feel sick for the state of the world because it's so beneath a president, but also my feeling is: "You think you're good at being a jerk on Twitter? You will now face the grandmaster of being a jerk on Twitter."

Ha! I love Tina Fey so hard. I could have read pages and images of this. Letterman (ironically on purpose?) mansplaining the fact that many men are jerks notwithstanding.
posted by billiebee at 4:00 AM on December 10, 2016 [2 favorites]


That's a great interview! I'm a bit older than Ms. Fey is, but I remember Gilda Radner the same way: from when I finally got to stay up and watch SNL. Rosanne Roseannadanna, I miss you!
posted by spacewrench at 6:14 AM on December 10, 2016 [3 favorites]


Shit if I remembered to do my homework by the time 60 minutes came on I was doing great.
posted by emjaybee at 10:01 AM on December 10, 2016 [2 favorites]


I love Tina Fey. But I grew up with Letterman.

Dave got me through the Reagan/Bush years. Deep down I wish he would be there to get me through the Trump years. He's the man for the job. One can dream.
posted by JoeZydeco at 9:22 AM on December 11, 2016 [1 favorite]


Fey: Then the president-elect says [to the Hamilton actor who read a statement about diversity to Vice President-elect Mike Pence after a performance], "You owe him an apology." Immediately, my brain went to Lorne Michaels. I thought, our president-elect is a chump of a manager because don't put yourself in a position where you're asking for something and you're going to be told no. I learned that from Lorne. You're the president. You demanded an apology that you can't get. Bad management skills.

That is brilliant!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 9:12 AM on December 12, 2016 [2 favorites]


I have a group of women that I worked with at SNL — Maya Rudolph, Emily Spivey, Paula Pell, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, Rachel Dratch — and we talk as a group through the computer every single day. Dozens of times a day. And it's very nice. It's something we've come to in our 40s.
That sounds like a very good Slack!
posted by ignignokt at 9:53 AM on December 12, 2016


Tina Fey's acceptance speech from Women in Entertainment 2016 - Includes Jon Hamm's introduction, which is pretty great.
posted by gladly at 6:34 PM on December 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


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