Paul Farhi of the Washington Post reports on Tina Fey’s acceptance speech for the “Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.”
In her acceptance speech, Fey touched on her best-known bit — her Palin imitation –and offered some mock hands-across-the-political-divide commentary. The rise of conservative women in politics, she said pointedly, is good for all women, “unless you don’t want to pay for your own rape kit . . . unless you’re a lesbian who wants to get married to your partner of 20 years . . . [or] unless you believe in evolution.”
The lines played first to nervous laughter and then to not much laughter at all.
Not a good sign when you bomb at a humor-awards ceremony.
It could be funny forever if it were done in good spirits
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseF49, that would require Fey to see Palin as a human being and not an evil shrew who must be mocked to death before she destroys civilization as we know it. That is the left's definition of tolerance.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI really, really want to like her. She's a brunette, and I love brunettes. She wears glasses, and I really dig chicks who wear glasses. She's funny, quirky, smart, creative and a serious writing talent – what's not to like?
Well, the smug, condescending and downright nasty attitude that lurks beneath all that and comes darn near close to ruining it. That's what's not to like.
Like Maureen Dowd, Tina Fey often draws a perfect image of the stereotypical "mean girl", but it ain't who she's trying to target with her humor. It's her.
Oh, and I love how everyone from Lorne Michaels to Amy Poehler comment on how wonderful it was that they, along with Tina Fey, were able to "influence an election." And they don't feel dirty when they say stuff like that? Of course not, because to them, Tina Fey's Sarah Palin is more real than the real Sarah Palin. Never mind that Palin's quote about Alaska's proximity to Russia was meant to indicate that she had a unique set of insights into executive governing that was both pertinent to the discussion at the time and worthy of at least some elevated regard.
No, the important thing is that Tina Fey was able to yuk yuk her way into brainwashing America (the "hipper than you" part of America) that Sarah Palin said something she didn't say. And deserved to be ridiculed for it. Mercilessly. There's a character issue here with Tina Fey that rankles me. Those quotes from the Mark Twain prize speech just confirm it.*
(*What is it about liberals who, when receiving prestigious honors in Washington DC, feel compelled to drag the moment through the partisan gutter with such out-of-place comments? Paul McCartney's comments about President Bush were only a few weeks ago, really. And got President Obama to smile, it did. Sigh...)
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