Tina Fey one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 25 performers of 2007
Well here is some good news to break through all the bad news regarding the writer’s strike. Our very own Tina Fey has been named among Entertainment Weekly’s Top 25 performers of 2007. Below is a reprint of the article on the EW website:
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2007′S CLASS CLOWNS: TINA FEY
It takes a certain self-confidence to play a woman who accidentally dates her third cousin, erroneously assumes her neighbor is a terrorist, and gets called the C-word by a colleague. Especially when said character is based on you. ”I love going to those uncomfortable places,” says Fey, who stars as 30 Rock’s workaholic TV maven and is also the NBC show’s creator and exec producer. ”I’ll go down any weird avenue.” Maybe this year’s surprise Emmy win for best comedy will empower Fey to pursue some dreams for her alter ego. ”Liz Lemon could do an international adoption for a Russian baby and get the paperwork wrong with the European dates and somehow end up with a huge, muscular 13-year-old. Yeah, I could see that.” Hopefully we will too. —Jessica Shaw
Entertainment Weekly what took you so damn long? We’ve known how awesome Tina Fey is for years. And we hope that the extra exposure will help 30 Rock’s ratings and standing with the network. But we also have to say that we are a little bit sorry to have Tina getting such wide exposure … we sort of liked it when she was “our little secret.” But hey, we’d rather share the awesome and have her stay on TV than keep her all to ourselves and have her not on our TV screen anymore. We can’t be selfish!
Tina is in excellent company with the list as well. Others included in the “Class Clowns of 2007″ list are Will Ferrell and Andy McKay of Funny or Die, Judd Apatow and his “crew” (including Paul Rudd and Seth Rogan), The Simpsons, and Vanessa Williams. And writing that, I have to say, how awesome would it be if Tina Fey and Judd Apatow were to work together? Some combination of Mean Girls and Superbad would be awesome. She’s already worked with Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live and we know how (usually) great that could be. And I would dig seeing Vanessa Williams show up as a guest star on 30 Rock (or Tina Fey show up as a guest star on Ugly Betty.) Come on, how about some Entertainment Weekly inspired crossovers here?
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