Tina Fey’s hit comedy series “30 Rock” may have picked up 4 Emmys, but backstage at the TV awards show the show’s creator and star faced almost as many questions about her recent portrayal of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live” as she did about her award-winning show.
As it turns out, Fey would rather not see Palin become a regular character on “SNL.”
“I want to be done playing this lady November 5th,” Fey said when asked backstage about how she feels about the election. “So, if anyone can help me be done playing her on November 5th…”
The U.S. presidential election is November 4th.
Fey added that Palin “seems like a perfectly nice lady,” but that she had been reluctant at first to admit that they look alike.
“I was very resistant to acknowledge that there was a resemblance,” Fey said. “Then my kid saw Sarah Palin on TV and said ‘That’s Mommy.’”
As for “30 Rock,” Fey said co-star Alec Baldwin had told her that her award for best actress in a comedy series meant she could now “stop apologizing for being an actor and being on the show.”
Finally, Fey asked enlisted reporters’ help in finding her purse, which disappeared after she left it under her seat in L.A.’s Nokia theater.
“If anyone sees a small purple purse with an iPhone in it with a picture of a naked toddler,” she said.
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You left a few out, Alex: Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, Tony Rezco, (Chicago Political Godfather) Emil Jones, and the militant activists of ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).
- Posted by FallonI wasn’t aware that the election of Gov Palin requires Ms. Fey to play the part forever.
If you don’t want to play the lady don’t play her.
Although I must commend Ms. Fey for a straightforward statement and not a rant. Perhaps she can give tips to her fellow celebs on making a critical statement with class.
- Posted by P. IngemiTina Fey knows what her fellow left wing actors want to hear to keep her popular among the Hollywood elite and effete, so she vaguely parrots them. I think Fey actually likes Palin (as does Hillary and Geraldine) and would like nothing better than to continue to play her for the next 12 years (4 as VP and 8 as President). Hollywood is continuing to solidify Main Street support for McCain/Palin as actors and comedians are looking more and more deranged, disturbed, self-indulgent, angry and out of touch with normal Americans.
- Posted by FallonHey, here’s hoping all the libs who commented find they have “exploding Head Syndrome” once McCain and Barracuda win in November.
That 50 state strategy is working quite nicely isn’t it libs? Nothing like runaway spending to end a campaigns plans. If he spends like this running the govt, we’ll all be bankrupt by 2010. Heh heh heh.
The only rule implemented, for those of you who can’t research, was to prevent Biden from dominating the conversation and making his typical smarmy comments. Although, I want those, because he is such an arrogant *****.
- Posted by LiberalsSuckIf you don’t like her politics, don’t watch her show. No need to ridicule her performance. She is an intelligent writer, actor, and comedian. If you were famous you would be giving your opinions to the media and she has the right to voice hers. Freedom of speech right?
- Posted by NicoleThe whining panic of the lefties continues unabated. Sarah Palin isn’t going anywhere. Deal with it, preferably by leaving the country!
- Posted by GerryThe moonbats are suffering Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome.
Here are a few nutty claims made by hate filled, rabid Sarah Palin haters of the left-liberal-Democrat variety: She should have aborted her baby. She should not be a successful woman running for the VP slot, but she should stay home with her children. She is not a woman because she does not think like them. Her only qualification is she never had an abortion.
Those are a few of many hate filled screeds against a wonderful person, Sarah Palin.
Victory and success is the best revenge, and, come November 5, 2008, Sarah Palin will have been elected to the Vice Presidency of the United States of America, and the deranged moonbats can go absolutely moonbat crazy, pull their hair out, jump off of tall buildings, jump into the path of oncoming trains, buses, or cars, or leave the country.
They’ll probably become violent and riot.
- Posted by WilliamGet over it Tina, if you don’t want to play the character, then tell SNL you are no longer doing the character and demand they find someone else. It’s getting so pathetic with all the whinning in hollywood about Sarah Palin. I thought Alec Baldwin was supposed to move to another country when Bush was elected back in 2000? He’s still here! Go figure?
- Posted by Shawn“Rules for Sarah - include scripted interviews, not turning in tax returns, not showing up for troopergate.”
Rules for Obama. No questions about Bill Ayers, Rev. Right, Rev. Flagher, Rezko, wives hatred of America, relationship to groups related to Saul Alinsky.
List goes on and on.
Sorry, get ready for President McCain in November. Maybe next time the dems can run a southern conservative democrat rather than a marxist and actually have a chance of winning an election.
- Posted by BorislavioMs. Fey, like all Obama supporters, are ignorant. Obama and the Democrat leadership are ALL socialists whould seek to transform our society into a mirror image of Europe with massive taxes, high unemployment, government meddling in everything, and weak on every front. Why don’t you fools who worship Big Government just leave instead of trying to enslave thiose of us who value our freedom?
- Posted by EricFey is still on? SNL is still on?
- Posted by BuckwheatThe lie about Palin and the AIP is surfacing again? She was never a member of the Alaska Independence Party
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/ sliming_palin.html
There are some possible reasons to oppose Mrs. Palin, but that’s not one of them. Ohm and to liberal posters: please keep posting your Palin-hate, it just makes you look small and bitter.
- Posted by billhedrickKatie: Your facts are WRONG. Palen was never a member of the Alaskan Independance party. And its wrong of you to continue to spread these lies.
- Posted by LilyHottopics.
- Posted by pmooreBefore complaining about setting rules for debates between Palin and Biden, please remember it was Obama who turned down open question, townhall meetings because they were too “structured”. Rules of debate are always set and all of the debaters will have their own set of requirements.
Katie you are one of the many blind followers who believe all the hoaxes against Palin hook line and sinker. Even CNN has debunked that charge, she has always been a lifelong Republican and not
- Posted by ElizaBa member of a secessionist group.
I am no Tina fan, but I hope she gets STUCK playing Palin the next 8 years AND THEN SOME!!! Get over yourself, Tina.
- Posted by EverybodyLovesReaganI love Sarah Palin.
I can’t wait to vote for her.
I have already given the RNC $500; when they asked for “Information,” I entered two words: “Sarah Palin.”
With regard to most of the comments here, get a life. As one example, “Katie,” the Alaska Independence Party stuff was David Axelrod astroturfing. It was proven utterly false.
With regard to the debate format, the parties mutually agreed on the format. The left wants to keep the walking, gibbering gaffe-machine Biden as far from an unrestricted microphone as it can.
Tina Fey: Get over yourself. You are a mere player. Nobody really cares.
- Posted by RJGatorEsq.__________
Katie,
You are repeating lies that have been debunked repeatedly. Gov Palin was NEVER a member of that group. None of the quotes about that group are, or ever have been, platform positions, and while Mr. Palin was a registered member for a couple of election cycles, he is not now and denies he ever supported any of the quotes you have above.
As for Obama, his mentor as a Community Organizer was a Communist named Saul Alinsky who advocated the overthrow of America and the establishment of a Workers State (i.e. Communist). Obama has said repeatedly that he learned more as a Community Organizer then he learned in any other job.
- Posted by SeanHmmm, an ACTRESS humbling a proven exec of a state. Fits the lefty loon platform of irony, at least.
- Posted by BubbGKatie, why do you push such outright lies? You Obama backers should stop the lies out of your mouths.
- Posted by Bill