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...Undoubtedly, though, the films would benefit from a bit of refocusing and, perhaps more importantly, a feminine touch.While this is unlikely to happen, it seems as though the women of American Comedy like to do things differently. And most recently, they seem to be doing it better. The Tina Fey and Amy Poehler vehicle “Baby Mama” grossed an estimated $18.3 million dollars this past weekend, coming in at number one. While the movie is certainly the story of a woman reconciling a career and her age with her wish for a family, it seems...
...Mama to the rescue! The movie, written and directed by Saturday Night Live scribe Michael McCullers, dares to imagine that somewhere in this world of carelessly, ceaselessly fertile females there might be one woman who wants a baby but can?t have it. Her name is Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey), she?s 37, lives in Philadelphia, has an OK job working for a goofy whole-foods guru (Steve Martin), yet feels somehow empty: no man, no marriage and especially no baby. ?I just don?t like your uterus,? her gynecologist (John Hodgman) tells her, adding that Kate...
...This finding would seem to put women at a disadvantage when it comes to making jokes themselves. Not only are men less predisposed to laugh, they may even fear that women are trying to push them out of the gene pool. There are, of course, exceptions: Sarah Silverman. Tina Fey. Ellen Degeneres. Rosie O’ Donnell. But the fact that I have to include Rosie O’Donnell in a list of funny people should suggest how slim the pickings are. At Harvard, too, women in comedy are few and far between. Improv groups, humor magazines, tv shows...
...with Clinton against the wall in a bar fight, SNL handed her not one but two broken whiskey bottles: the debate skit and a brilliant girl-power endorsement from Tina Fey, who obliterated the worst arguments against Hillary--Bill fatigue, her age and the charge that she's a bitch. "Bitches get stuff done," Fey sassed. "Bitch is the new black...
...culture noise that doesn't matter. Except it does. Entertainment surrogates can make points you wouldn't put in your candidate's own mouth. (Clinton probably could not compare herself to a mean old nun who forces you to learn the capital of Vermont. Coming from Fey, it somehow works.) They attract free media. They can capture emotion more viscerally than a policy paper. (By playing off the rhythm and call-and-response of Obama's words, Yes We Can literally rendered his prose into lyrics.) And as much as people may say that they don't care about celebrity...