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Those simpler times seem like ages, ages ago.
MEA CULPA
Tina Fey Admits She Screwed Up With Controversial SNL Charlottesville Bit
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tina-fey-admits-she-screwed-up-with-controversial-snl-charlottesville-bit
I felt like a gymnast who did a very solid routine and broke her ankle on the landing, Fey told David Letterman in a sit-down interview for his Netflix show.
Matt Wilstein
05.04.18 3:00 AM ET
Five months and five episodes into his Netflix interview show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, David Letterman finally welcomed a fellow comedian onto his stage.
Newly crowned Tony Award nominee Tina Fey joined Letterman for a discussion about her career in comedy, from starting out in the Chicago improv scene to becoming the first female head writer of Saturday Night Live, to writing her best-selling memoir Bossypants and her hit Broadway adaptation of Mean Girls.
...............When Letterman suggested that Feys impression of Palin moved the needle in the 2008 election, she said, I dont think it did. But now it seems like such a folksy, simpler time, doesnt it? That election was so civilized, comparatively.
Fey said that she and Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler, who all collaborated on those sketches, were so careful not to write anything into them that didnt believe in. They werent writing the sketches to convince anyone of anything, but rather to observe the truth and say it.
After just six weeks of playing the vice presidential candidate on SNL, the real Sarah Palin was invited to appear side-by-side with Fey on the show. Fey went to Lorne Michaels and said, Please, I dont want to do it with her. Because I just didnt feel right about it. And I was like, if I do it, thats what theyre going to show at the Emmys when I die.
CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)The GOP should have shut her racist rhetoric down & taken her off the ticket if she didn't comply. The media should have shamed her mercilessly. Instead, the bigots got the message that their hate speech was now acceptable in the public sphere.