Amy Poehler's Smart Girls at the Party finally debuted with even more awesomeness and fanfare than we previously expected. The premiere episode features Cameron, a 10-year-old writer who has more potential in her pinky finger than all of Hollywood's starlets combined. Amy handles her like a pro and makes us hope that one day she can teach everyone's daughters how to be as great as her. The best part, however, is at the end, where there's a full-on dance party with Will Arnett and Kristen Wiig. Too many amazing people in one scene, if you ask us.
So the same guy who sold us on the old "Joe the Plumber making out with Kristin Wiig scam" apparently got Fox News and the rest of the country believing his story about Sarah Palin not knowing that Africa was a continent and not a country.
S'crazy, right? Because wouldn't Fox News have people to fact-check this? And yes, Martin Eisenstadt (pictured left next to Joe) says he's a McCain strategist and shares/stole the name of a conservative analyst but didn't the flack over at News Corp bother to Google him or anything? This dude is a total phony.
But it gets weirder.
FEY RETIRES PALIN IMPRESSION; SNL TO BE CRAPPY AGAIN "Tina Fey’s hilarious turn as Sarah Palin put Saturday Night Live on the electoral map like nothing else in recent memory — viewership is up nearly 70 percent this season. But will Fey continue to moonlight as the gorgeous governor, who could be a parody-worthy public figure for years to come? 'I have to retire just because I have to do my day job,' reveals the creator and star of NBC’s 30 Rock (which experienced a 20 percent ratings uptick for its Oct. 30 season premiere). 'I think [Kristen] Wiig would do a really good job.'"
The best part of last night's Saturday Night Live was actually a skit featuring Will Forte as a Halloween sexual predator, but stupid NBC won't release the video (much like the amazing Fancy Pants sketch from the season premiere). Instead, here's a clip of the opener, which parodied the Joe Biden and John Murtha remarks made at recent Obama rallies. It was fairly humorous, but not nearly as awesome as Kristen Wiig's tiny hands from a few weeks back.
On another note, why was Coldplay allowed to perform four times throughout the show? That seems a little unfair, no? If anyone has an explanation, feel free to enlighten us.
OK OK, one more thing and then we'll be done: Congrats to Amy Poehler, who had her baby Saturday night and was unable to make the show. Archie Arnett is the luckiest little boy in the world.
Bless Tina Fey's heart. The only person who provides a positive in the whole Sarah Palin fiasco is the former SNL funny lady, who has graced the television show week after week to expose the vice presidential candidate's ignorance. This week was, of course, a spoof of Thursday's night's VP debates, and Fey nailed it, down to the constant usage of the word "maverick" and blatant disregard of the moderator's questions. And good news for the Palin crazies: The skit also ripped into Joe Biden.
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The photo spreads are in from Vanity Fair's article about funny women. We don't care enough to read the entire piece, because we already know what it says.
The pictures do plenty of talking: Some of today's most popular female comedians — including Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig and Jenna Fischer — are featured in ground-breaking photos … dressed up as celebrities. Clever.
Last year, when I mentioned on this site Christopher Hitchens' Vanity Fair article "Why Women Aren't Funny," the backlash was great, in many senses of that word. "YOU ARE AN IDIOT, CORD," a commenter calling herself A FUNNY WOMAN wrote to me. As it turns out, women don't take kindly to men saying they can't do things well, nor do they like men mentioning men that say women can't do things well.
Such feminine rage was probably the impetus for Vanity Fair's latest cover story, "Who Says Women Aren't Funny?" Penned by drab New York Times television critic Alessandra Stanley, the rebuttal piece gets by with a little help from top comediennes like Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig and Wanda Sykes. And it could have been great, had it not included passages like this:
It used to be that women were not funny. Then they couldn’t be funny if they were pretty. Now a female comedian has to be pretty—even sexy—to get a laugh.
At least, that’s one way to view the trajectory from Phyllis Diller and Carol Burnett to Tina Fey.
Hey now! Isn't tacitly calling Phyllis Diller and Carol Burnett uglier than Tina Fey the same hierarchical bullshit chauvinists pull? Is this supposed to be a joke, lady?
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