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Reading Mack Rawden's commentary excerpted below about comediennes as he gets ready to watch Date Night, I am trying to imagine my better half funnin' about JonBenet Ramsey or the Lindbergh kidnapping. I can't quite get there. Guess that could be sorta kinda close to how Sarah Palin might have felt about Tina Fey during the 2008 election. I am not at all convinced Ms. Palin will ever think Fey is incredibly amusing and entertaining as me and some guys out there do - -
"This Friday, I’m going to see Date Night. Not because I love Romantic Comedies, not because Mark Wahlberg is shirtless, and definitely not because The Office isn’t enough awkward Steve Carell humor for me. I’m going to see Date Night on Friday because I believe in Tina Fey. She makes me laugh, unexpectedly, sheepishly, loudly, thoroughly and consistently. She is, without question, one of the ten best comedians working today. She’s John Belushi doing Joe Cocker. She’s Richard Pryor killing on the mic. She’s Norm MacDonald cracking jokes about O.J. Simpson, Vince Vaughn standing on a diner table and Johnny Carson direct addressing his audience as K-Mart shoppers. I believe in Tina Fey because she makes me laugh, and that’s why, for the first time in my life, I’m going to see a comedy entirely because of its female star.
...it’s not that chicks aren’t funny. My girlfriend makes me laugh all the time. She’s clever and just the right level of cynical, but she never lets herself become a sideshow. My male friends and I are a sideshow. We’re shameless. From whipping out our *beep* to pretending to talk like the deaf, we’ll lower ourselves to outright embarrassment, we’ll stoop to referencing JonBenet Ramsey, sink to making Lindbergh baby jokes, cram in thirty-five chocolate chip cookies at the same time because *beep*, we’re men and for some reason, we can get away with it.
...for the first time ever, thanks to Jane Lynch, thanks to Wanda Sykes, most of all thanks to Tina Fey, and in honor of so many great female comediennes like Gilda Radner who never truly got a fair shake, I’m excited about where female-driven comedy is headed. I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is, the question is whether you’re ready to join me." [read more]
Labels: Date Night, Gilda Radner, Jane Lynch, Joe Cocker, John Belushi, Johnny Carson, JonBenet, JonBenet Ramsey, Norm MacDonald, O.J. Simpson, Richard Pryor, Sarah Palin, Tina Fey, Vince Vaughn, Wanda Sykes
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