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Proud "Baby Mama" Tina Fey

If it seems like Tina Fey is everywhere these days, well, it’s probably because she kind of is. Last week, she graced the cover of Vanity Fair to refute those ridiculous “Women Aren’t Funny” claims. This past Sunday, she was smiling up from your Parade magazine, cute as fresh-picked daisies. And, very soon, she’ll be delivering the funny in a theater near you with Baby Mama.

A new featurette for Tina and Amy Poehler’s odd-couple comedy hit the web recently, and the more I see, the more I can’t wait until April 25. The two-minute spot intersperses clips from the trailer with Tina and Amy talking about the film.



The two women play polar opposites who come together when white-collar Kate (Tina) hires working-class Angie (Amy) to be her surrogate. What ensures is what Tina calls “as close as you can get to seeing me and Amy in a movie version of Laverne & Shirley.”

Really, if you think about it, aside from those delightful schlemiel, schlimazel gals, the female buddy comedy is a rarity indeed. At this point, someone is probably going to bring up Thelma & Louise, but I’d argue that any movie that ends with our heroines taking gravity’s elevator to the ground floor of the Grand Canyon should, at the very least, be labeled a dramedy.

In her Parade cover story, Fey talked about what drew her to the film. The 37-year-old said the idea that women can have it all informed the film’s humor. Ever the funny feminist (no, that’s not an oxymoron), Tina recalls the exhilaration of growing up in the Title IX generation:

    "We’re going to sign you up for coed baseball, and you’re going to play basketball ..." It was a good time to be a girl. You know, watching The Bad News Bears — it was takeover time.

Just as deep-seated are Tina’s comedy roots. At the tender age of 7, she drew a picture of people holding hands and carrying wedges of Swiss cheese that read: “What a friend we have in cheeses.” Oh, man, that’s still good, even 30 years later.

The Parade story also comes with a quiz that asks, “Are you a Tina Fey fan?" While I don’t want to be immodest about my Tina Fey obsession prowess, let’s just say I scored in the 11–15 range, which is lovingly described as “Your obsession with Tina Fey is unrivaled.”

Though, really, when she says stuff like this, how could your love for all things Fey not be unrivaled?

    I think for women especially, you need to have a plan. I need to have some other ways to generate income, so I don’t have to stretch my face or lift the top of my head with surgery or something ... I often feel like a complete fool. I’m here laboring over this tiny show so much, and around me people are making money by the fistful. It’s like, ‘Oh, man, how can I turn my personality into a line of crappy products?’ Rachael Ray sells, like, spoons. I could sell pencils.

Oh, Tina, I would buy those pencils by the truckload.

carolinagrrrl's picture

Tina Fey-Fandom

I don't think there is a word to describe my love for this woman. I have had April 25th marked on my calendar for a while now, and it's just not coming any faster!

HURRY UP, APRIL 25TH!

 

And, PS--Dorothy, wanna go halfsies on those pencils?

 

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renee1144's picture

Gotta love her

I'm really excited for this. She's brilliant and funny, a wickedly beautiful combination.
Pyewacket's picture

Score!

I took the quiz too and got only two questions wrong.  And I wasn't even trying that hard.  lol  At least the good news for Tina is one of the two I got wrong concerned her current neighborhood.  At least that shows I am not stalker material.  :)
JuicyJoss's picture

She's really amazing...

People must understand that a woman can be smart and funny at the same time, and Tina is the perfect combination of style and brains...and most of all don't forget that B**** IS THE NEW BLACK! LOL

imthey's picture

I'm so there...

I saw the preview for this a while back and thought, oh yeah, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in one movie together... now that's worth shelling out my $10 for!
 
It's easy to fall for Tina and Amy... smart, sexy and funny to boot, what's not to love?
 

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JeSsIcA25's picture

I am SOOOOOO excited for

I am SOOOOOO excited for Baby Mama to come out!! I love Amy and I love Tina...together they are the perfect couple....of funny ladies I mean.
jennifer from pittsburgh's picture

Fey

Tina Fey is brilliant. She brings the funny, wraps it in harsh reality, and then stomps it with her bi-curious shoes.
gypsywee's picture

Dude!

I so totally agree.

Now I'm going to run off and watch the Junior year abroad in Frankfurt clip...again...just because I can.

jennifer from pittsburgh's picture

More Fey

As much as I hate to reply with a smiley face...:)
mikka's picture

Perfection

These two ladies together are like a dream. I have all their WU episodes on my computer and they never fail to crack me up. Smart and funny = hella sexy!! Their beautiful and i am soooooo gonna see this movie :D.
Mari SanGiovanni's picture

Love Tina Fey!

Damn that woman is funny.

 

Have been Netflix-ing 30 rock to catch up---she is brilliant. As for a female buddy movie that does not involve tragedy or a bank robbery---bring it on!!!

 

--Mari

 

Mari SanGiovanni

Author of: Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer...

www.GreetingsFromJamaica.com

xadiz's picture

can't stop posting

about tina fey. i luv her so. =) i saw Baby Mama in an early screener. She and Amy are great!! I have to go get Parade magazine and a Vanity Fair this month.
afterellen_fan's picture

Screening of Baby Mama

I was lucky enough to catch a pre-screening of Baby Mama a couple of weeks ago.  Coming from someone who has never seen Tina Fey or Amy Poehler in action, I thoroughly enjoyed it!  Based on the audience reaction, I'm sure I wasn't the only one with my sides aching from laughter after the first hour.  I'm planning on watching it again when it comes out in April. 

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LoveLillianGish's picture

Baby Mama

The trailer alone makes me laugh hysterically. In fact I'm such a geek I did a little happy dance in my seat before viewing Mrs. Pettigrew Lives For a Day when the trailer came on (Mrs. Pettigrew had great music, great acting, wonderful costumes but a sadly very predictable plot) No matter what is going on that day I will be in the theatres seeing Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in action, I wish they would hug more often cause they're cute. Smart women are awesome.

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