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19 September 2007
Meet my TV girlfriend Just finished the 30 Rock season one DVDs. Tina Fey is the new Mary Tyler Moore.
I do not understand the love people have for Tina Fey. I find her intensely annoying and 30 Rock entirely unwatchable. And that new Amex commercial is so incredibly solipsistic and smarmy that it makes me want to break something-- anything-- every single time. Her shtick seems to be something along the lines of:
LOOK HOW NEUROTIC I AM! IT MUST BE BECAUSE I'M A WOMAN! I WISH I COULD JUST FIND LOVE TO MAKE ME HAPPY! THANK GOODNESS I'M A SUCCESS! RIGHT? I'M A SUCCESS, AREN'T I? I CAN'T TELL BECAUSE I'M NEUROTIC!
That surprises me, eamondaly, because one of the things I like about Tina Fey is that she doesn't strike me as particularly neurotic. Certainly not in the same way that say Mary Richards or Ally McBeal were.
Umm, no. Tina Fey is MY GIRLFRIEND. We're getting married. I'm having her babies.
And I'm a straight woman in a perfectly happy relationship. Would I dump The Boyfriend for Brad Pitt? No. Ben Affleck? Not a chance. Zac Efron? (Umm, hello, I'm not The Pink Superhero!) Milo Ventimiglia? Almost certainly not.
But Tina Fey? In a heartbeat.
She and I are not only getting married and having each other's babies, but we're going to be best friends and I'm going to be her protege, and she's going to make me very rich and famous, and we'll live happily ever after.
Is she someone I'd have to watch tv to know about? *googles, finds pictures of her in glasses* Oh yeah, I liked her in SNL. I haven't seen her in anything since.