Tina Fey

'Kenneth the Page' Responds to Jindal Comparisons - Posted February 26, 2009
Is Jack McBrayer the new Tina Fey? After Bobby Jindal's very 'Kenneth the Page'-ish response to Barack Obama on Tuesday all eyes (or links) were on McBrayer, who made an exclusive appearance on Jimmy Fallon's Late Night to respond to the Internet response to the Republican response to Obama's Not... [FishBowlNY]

Golden Globes Actually Interesting This Year...Kind Of...Thanks to Tina Fey - Posted January 12, 2009
Okay, we're going to admit that when the Golden Globes was canceled last year due to the strike - we didn't notice. We're that big of fans of awards shows. Last night there were the people watching the GGs and those watching 24. We were watching a rerun on Discovery Health... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 12.29.08 - Posted December 29, 2008
Good morning, Washington. What DC museum is featured above? Think you know? Email us with your best guess. AND: Join us after the jump to find out if you guessed our last contest correctly. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning... [FishBowlDC]

AP Votes Tina Fey 'Entertainer of the Year' - Posted December 24, 2008
No one's going to be arguing with this choice. The AP has made Tina Fey their 'Entertainer of the Year,' recognizing her as the performer who "had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008." ... [FishBowlNY]

Arianna Huffington is Media Person of the Year - Posted December 9, 2008
I Want Media has named Arianna Huffington their Person of the Year, presumably based on your votes. As it happens the top three spots all belonged to women — Tina Fey and Rachel Maddow were the runners up. Says IWM about the choice: "Huffington had a big year in... [FishBowlNY]

WGA Awards Want 'Simpsons,' 'Breaking Bad' And Tina's '30 Rock' - Posted December 8, 2008
Tina Fey is likely to be lauded for more than just impersonating Sarah Palin with the Writers Guild of America awards nominations already announced, Variety reports. Fey, "Breaking Bad" and "The Simpsons" led the nominations that were announced today. Winners will be announced Feb. 7 in simultaneous ceremonies in L.A. and New York. Nominations... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 12.02.08 - Posted December 2, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

I Want Media's 'Media Person of the Year' - Posted December 1, 2008
A the year draws to a close get prepared for the usual onslaught of lists! We all know Time's Person of the Year is a non-compete, but I Want Media, which has just launched its yearly Media Person of the Year poll may provide a slightly more open playing field.... [FishBowlNY]

Rachel Maddow Makes TVWeek's Tops List - Posted November 17, 2008
Rachel Maddow has arrived. The MSNBC host has made a list the includes such TV luminaries as Tina Fey, Elisabeth Murdoch and Tyra Banks. In fact, Maddow is the only TV news host to make TVWeek's Women in Television: 2008 list, unless you include Barbara Walters who made it alongside her... [TVNewser]

2008 Over, But Who's Next For Republicans? - Posted November 9, 2008
The election is only five days gone, but the Republicans (if you can ever believe anything that AOL posts) are already huddling to find a candidate to challenge Barack in 2012. A few names near the top of their list include Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich (remember him?) and... [FishBowlLA]

John McCain on Saturday Night Live - Posted November 3, 2008
SNL has turned into must be seen on TV for the candidates, particularly in these last few weeks. John McCain appeared this last Saturday in what could alternately be viewed as a last ditch attempt to reach voters, or, a last ditch attempt to salvage what remains of his tattered... [FishBowlNY]

Vote for Time's Person of the Year - Posted October 29, 2008
The show must go on! They may be laying off and restructuring but apparently Time still has the ability to nominate the Person of the Year...with your help. Time managing editor Rick Stengel has posted this video on YouTube asking for your recommendations. Depending on the outcome of... [FishBowlNY]

Tina Fey on Conan: Portraying Sarah Palin is the 'Craziest Thing That's Ever Happened to Me' - Posted October 29, 2008
Also, during her visit to SNL Sarah Palin offered to have Bristol babysit Tina Fey's toddler. Who needs fiction anymore when we have this election! ... [FishBowlNY]

Will Next Week's Election Spell Doom for Television? - Posted October 27, 2008
Remember how back in the late nineties no one could really imagine what life would be like after 2000? (And really, who among us could have envisioned YouTube?) And then everyone freaked out about Y2K and welded all the manhole covers shut in Manhattan. Well, with only eight... [FishBowlNY]

SNL's George W. Bush Endorsement: 'The Hot Lady and the Tiger Woods Guy' - Posted October 24, 2008
Will Ferrell's George W. Bush meets Tina Fey's Sarah Palin. ... [FishBowlNY]

Todd and Sarah Palin Revisit People - Posted October 22, 2008
Sarah Palin is making a second appearance in People (they point do out that this is not the Sarah Palin of five weeks ago!) in what is turning out to be Sarah Palin Embraces the Media week! (Lately she's been speaking more frequently with the press and even has an... [FishBowlNY]

Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live: 'All the Mavericks in the House Put Your Hands Up!' - Posted October 19, 2008
We actually only saw the cold open of SNL last night, and were a bit disappointed by Sarah Palin's appearance — the Tina Fey walk-by just didn't live up to...any hype actually. However! Turns out we missed the best part. The Sarah Palin Rap! Amy Poehler should... [FishBowlNY]

Sarah Palin's News Conference, Starring Tina Fey - Posted October 18, 2008
Well, she did it. Gov. Sarah Palin appeared during the opening sketch of tonight's Saturday Night Live. Without going in to too much detail Tina Fey, playing Palin, holds her first news conference, telling the fake assembled press, "I just want to say how excited I am to be in front... [TVNewser]

Sarah Palin's $15 Million Emails - Posted October 17, 2008
If you're Tina Fey you can get a $6 million dollars book deal based on a handshake and a verbal pitch. However! If you're Sarah Palin you can apparently ask the press for up to $15 million dollars for your emails. That's right! Even better than selling... [FishBowlNY]

Politico Confirms What FBLA Has Been Saying - Palin To Do SNL Tomorrow - Posted October 17, 2008
As we have previously reported, Sarah Palin will be on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Rumor is she'll spoof Tina Fey. She's already spoofed the veep race...Palin not Fey. Anyway, Politico's Jonathon Martin points out that Josh Brolin who plays George W. Bush will be hosting this week. Which could make it... [FishBowlLA]

The New Yorker Covers the 'Red Death' on Wall St. - Posted October 14, 2008
We're a bit late to this, but then again, there was no mail yesterday. Anyway, if someone were to make a time capsule of this stranger-than-fiction election year they would do well to include the New Yorker's covers along with SNL's Tina Fey, Sarah Palin impressions. This week's doesn't... [FishBowlNY]

Does Frank Rich Read His Own Comments Section? - Posted October 14, 2008
Yesterday at the Time Politics Summit 2008 we chatted with Frank Rich about the fact the New York Times now allows comments on its op-ed pieces. (A side note: even though Rich has long been ahead of the game in terms of adding in links to his columns, something he... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch: Joy Behar, Star Jones & Another Sarah Palin Doppelganger - Posted October 8, 2008
— DIANE CLEHANE What recession? The joint was jumping at Michael's today. Media mavens, television types and fashionistas were still trying to digest the week's head spinning events but, in true New York style, weren't letting a worldwide tanking economy get in the way of a good time. There was plenty of... [FishBowlNY]

Sarah Palin to Spoof Tina Fey Amex Commercial on SNL - Posted October 8, 2008
Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is going to be on SNL this weekend. She's going to spoof Tina Fey's Amex commercial with Martin Scorsese. Tina Fey is brilliant. Funny. Smart. Talented. Sarah Palin reads at a third grade level. Our suggestion for a title: Pearls Before Swine...With Lipstick. UPDATE: It's not... [FishBowlLA]

If You Can't Beat'em Join'em: Sarah Palin Does Tina Fey? - Posted October 6, 2008
Via Daily Intel comes word that, yes indeed, there is still time for this campaign to get stranger. According to the Chicago Sun-Times Sarah Palin may make her own appearance on this Thursday's SNL special playing, you guessed it!, Tina Fey circa her Amex commercials. Maybe Palin, during... [FishBowlNY]

The Dow Jones: Monday Morning Coming Down - Posted October 6, 2008
That was a fun weekend. Lots of Sarah Palin and Tina Fey. Also bailout packages that navigated the tricky waters of Congress all the way to the Oval Office where it was lickety-split signed by President Bush. However! A Monday morning reality check may be in order... [FishBowlNY]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted October 3, 2008
You Betcha: Mary McNamara notes that the real losers of last night's VP debate were the pundits who were handicapping it: "If the bar had been placed any lower for this debate, they would have had to bury it. So how surprising was it, really, that neither candidate devolved into a... [FishBowlLA]

SNL Portrays Various TVNewsers - Posted September 28, 2008
It was a busy political week, and two of the major TV news events were parodied on Saturday Night Live last night. Friday's presidential debate was the focus of a lengthy sketch, featuring a return appearance by Chris Parnell as PBS' Jim Lehrer. Interestingly, the NBC late-night show decided to take... [TVNewser]

SNL Portrays Various TVNewsers - Posted September 28, 2008
It was a busy political week, and two of the major TV news events were parodied on Saturday Night Live last night. Friday's presidential debate was the focus of a lengthy sketch, featuring a return appearance by Chris Parnell as PBS' Jim Lehrer. Interestingly, the NBC late-night show decided to take... [TVNewser]

Frank Rich Thinks Joy Behar is the New Edward R. Murrow - Posted September 22, 2008
"In our news culture, Behar, a stand-up comic by profession, looms as the new Edward R. Murrow." Actually we're not sure Frank Rich means it literally -- one interview does not a journalistic cornerstone make -- but still, point taken. Why is it the comedy world always seems to be doing... [FishBowlNY]

Frank Rich Thinks Joy Behar is the New Edward R. Murrow - Posted September 22, 2008
"In our news culture, Behar, a stand-up comic by profession, looms as the new Edward R. Murrow." Actually we're not sure Frank Rich means it literally -- one interview does not a journalistic cornerstone make -- but still, point taken. Why is it the comedy world always seems to be doing... [FishBowlNY]

Greta/Todd Done, Sean/Sarah Up Next - Posted September 17, 2008
Greta Van Susteren's two part interview with Todd Palin, the first since his wife was named the VP nominee, garnered big ratings for FNC. The 10pmET program had a two-day average of 665,000 viewers in the demo and 2,712,000 in Total Viewers. Yesterday's broadcast was the 2nd highest in the demo in... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 09.16.08 - Posted September 16, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

Tina Fey Takes on Sarah Palin - Posted September 15, 2008
NBC has successfully (at least for now) taken all the clips of this off YouTube. It's available at NBC.com but there's not code to embed it. So we improvised. Link is here. This is Tina Fey doing a brilliant Sarah Palin impression. Amy Poehler does Hillary Clinton. Poehler says, "I invited the... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 09.12.08 - Posted September 12, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

FBLA Exclusive: Inside the Microsoft Campaign - Posted September 5, 2008
We just got word from our person on the inside that the new Microsoft commercial featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates was most likely directed by Bryan Buckly. The same commercial director that did the American Express Ellen Degeneres spots. The one with the animals that won an Emmy and the... [FishBowlLA]

FBLA Exclusive: Inside the Microsoft Campaign - Posted September 5, 2008
We just got word from our person on the inside that the new Microsoft commercial featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates was most likely directed by Bryan Buckly. The same commercial director that did the American Express Ellen Degeneres spots. The one with the animals that won an Emmy and the... [FishBowlLA]

Like Sands Through the Hour Glass: Obama and the Press - Posted July 25, 2008
Obama and the press: it's not easy to keep up. In lieu of a flow chart, a brief recap. Over the winter the Press had such a crush on Obama that SNL's parody was considered an act of intervention, and Tina Fey was heralded as a sort of feminist hero.... [FishBowlNY]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted April 25, 2008
Last Laugh: It's been argued that Jimmy Fallon would be nothing without Tina Fey. We'll get a chance to find out when he takes over for Conan O'Brien after Conan succeeds Jay Leno next month year. Side Show Freaks: Carla Hall turns her attention to Pellicano's co-defendants "the disgraced cop, the... [FishBowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted January 28, 2008
Tina Fey A Fan of The Envelope: We've always had a soft-spot for Tina Fey, but it grew 10 times softer when we got to the end of this interview and heard her explain how The Envelope fuels her paranoia during the awards season. Coming To A Bookstore Near You: Screenwriters have... [FishBowlLA]

FBLA 20 Questions: John Griffiths - Posted May 21, 2007
John Griffiths, whose bio tells us that he's a noted entertainment journalist, currently the television critic for Us Weekly and also a contributing editor to Women's Health magazine. He contributes to FBLA's health by answering our pressing questions. He's also got a radio show, The Hollywood Pitch. What he doesn't have... [FishBowlLA]

Well, At Least It's Better Than Having Jimmy Fallon Pick Your Outift - Posted May 11, 2007
From Wake Up Call!: Did you know? "Tina Fey gave Chris the now-famous green tie he wore to moderate" ("Hardball Briefing").... [FishBowlDC]

Inside The Time 100 Party - Posted May 9, 2007
America Ferrera and John Mayer It's arguably the most exclusive magazine party of the year. (Graydon Carter's Vanity's Fair Oscar party perhaps being the other.) John Edwards mingled with John Mayer. Sir Richard Branson (just back from dogsledding in Alaska) commandeered the corner of the bar like a Virgin spaceship, and allowed... [FishBowlNY]