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Her segment on Palin alone should win awards. She nailed it and she's a babe.
Find some spirituality and fuck the money. So money folks with money are miserable. Be comfortable and to he hell with the ficticious pursuits.
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She's a brilliant artist, but of course, you wouldn't know, dittohead.
She's been a major talent since before she did Palin. I've been watching her be brilliant for something like a dozen years, beginning back at Second City in Chicago in which she established her versatility. Sorry you were so badly brought up you feel it's appropriate to say mean-spirited things in public about someone just cuz you don't agree with her politics.
Agree...don't get the Fey hype, she's not that talented and her biggest claim to fame her resemblance to Palin, har, har. What a comedic genius.
You know what I really don't get, this crazy idea that Palin is so good looking, so beautiful.
Just when did anyone ever think Tina Fey was good looking before McCain choose Palin for his running mate?
Neither one of them are raving beauties.....
Her biggest claim to fame is being this generation's answer to Elaine May. She has a body of work that goes back way before Palin was even a blip on the radar screen.
Thanks to SNL the country has to endure one bad Adam Sandler movie after another. Also Eddie Murphy movies & now Tina Fey seems posed to follow in their footsteps after she finishes her TV career. She is no Lucille Ball or even a Mary Tyler Moore. More like a Marlo Thomas but not as deep or as funny
Ahah. I see you didn't receive the memo explaining that the movies you mention are not mandatory viewing to retain your citizenship.
I've seen her act in some sensation serious scenes. The "even" in front of "Mary Tyler Moore" suggests you don't know what a gifted actress Moore is. You certainly don't know what a gifted actress Fey is. You just know how to post slighting crap, and that's not a talent to be envied.
I left out Will Ferrell movies - don't you agree they are even worse than Adam Sandler movies. As for Tina Fey's acting abilities - has she ever tried acting without those ugly glasses she sports? I might be able to judge her acting better if she took a few risks.
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