Anchor Woman - Tina Fey rewrites late-night comedy

[Snellius]

On a Monday afternoon last spring, at a diner in Manhattan, Tina Fey recalled her first days on the job at “Saturday Night Live.” She told me, “I’d had my eye on the show forever, the way other kids have their eye on Derek Jeter.” As we were talking, a man in his twenties, with wild tufts of dark hair, stopped by our table, which was near the soda fountain. Over the roar of a blender, he shouted to Fey, “Can I tell you that you are amazing? I don’t want to interrupt, but you are truly, truly amazing!” Fey thanked him, staring down at her plate. When her admirer retreated, she grinned. “Most of the time you’re too busy to think about it,” she told me. “But every now and then you say, ‘I work at “Saturday Night Live,” and that is so cool.’”
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Her anxiety has shaped her work. On a show in 2001, Fey said, “On Monday, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a terrorism warning, asking all Americans to be on high alert this week. . . . I think I speak for all Americans when I say, ‘Bitch, I can’t be any more alert than I already am. O.K.?’ I’m opening my mail with salad tongs. I take my passport in the shower with me. I am watching so much CNN I am having sex dreams about Wolf Blitzer.”

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031103fa_fact

[ixion]

1. I've always liked Tina Fey...

attactive, intelligent and funny... she's one of those people who gives 'humans' a good name. :-)

[Swede]

2. I love Tine Fey.

Adds some lustre to SNL.

[GOPisEvil]

3. Mmmm...Tina Fey...

:9

[Richardo]

5. I second that...

:loveya:

[GOPisEvil]

7. Look at post #4!

Yeeeowch! :9

[Richardo]

9. Yoiks!

Tina: "How do you spell 'Skelter'?" :D

[mac56]

4. hubba hubba

[gWbush is Mabus]

6. AWESOME INTERVIEW!!!!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. Where did she get her scar?

Just curious.
Duckie

[theemu]

10. She doesn't ever say

Apparently it's not an incident she likes to talk about, so she avoids it whenever possible.

[moof]

11. more Tina & more SNL news.

B.U.M.P.

[Bozita]

12. "Weekend Update" is a shadow of its self in '01

SNL is NBC is GE

Now what does GE do to make money?

Is GE making more money as a result of this war?

Maybe that's where the edge went.

[HornBuckler]

13. This Season Is Shaping Up To Be A Great One

Damn Shame Tracy Morgan Is Gone - But The New Guys Are Doin' Fine - I Hate Justin Timberlake, But He Did An Excellent Job ('Cept When He Sang)

Bring It On In To Omletville