January 22, 2012
"The problem is that last night’s 30 Rock appeared to be a defense of a good, but dimwitted guy, who sometimes says stupid things. The message seemed not just a defense of the Tracy Jordan character, but the real-life actor who plays him. The problem is that Tracy Morgan didn’t just perpetrate some thoughtless microaggression against gay people a la Jordan. (In the show, Jordan says if he were “turned into a gay” he would spend the day looking at his own “junk.”) Tracy Morgan said God didn’t make gay people because “God don’t make mistakes;” that gay people need to stop being such “pussies” and whining about bullying and violence against them; and that if his own son were to come out to him, he would “stab that little nigga to death."

— EXACTLY. This is exactly what sucked about that episode.

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Filed under: Muffin feminism Tracy Morgan homophobia 30 Rock Tina Fey 
May 10, 2011
I’ve said this before, that, when you’re in school and you’re the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves. I’ve directed all-female groups and I’ve been in them, and I find them really refreshing and challenging. When it comes right down to it, it’s talented people really that I like working with rather than male or female. At some point we, as a society, will have to admit that Amy Poehler is the Tina Fey we always wanted.

I’ve said this before, that, when you’re in school and you’re the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves. I’ve directed all-female groups and I’ve been in them, and I find them really refreshing and challenging. When it comes right down to it, it’s talented people really that I like working with rather than male or female.

At some point we, as a society, will have to admit that Amy Poehler is the Tina Fey we always wanted.

(via stayforthecredits)

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Filed under: Muffin Amy Poehler Tina Fey 
October 3, 2009

Seth MacFarlane is upset that Tina Fey made fun of him at the Emmys. Shame on you Tina Fey.

Link to Article

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Filed under: Tina Fey Seth MacFarlane The Emmys Family Guy Muffin 
October 2, 2009
A few thoughts on Kristen Wiig

Tonight a few of us saw the film Whip It (another of us saw it last week), and I’d like to note something about this movie. One of the lead roles is played by Kristen Wiig, who’s been in quite a few movies lately. She was, as she so often is, terrific in the role. She has tended to play a single character on Saturday Night Live, but her film career has shown that this is a facet of the show’s writing, not her acting ability.This picture was taken from that awful Vanity Fair article

Earlier this year we saw Away We Go, which featured (along with some very delicate emotions and yes it was another movie that made me cry) Maya Rudolph turning in an excellent leading performance.

Meanwhile, Lorne Michaels is readying MacGruber, a movie spinoff of Will Forte’s character on SNL. What we’re getting at here is that maybe it’s time we recognize the talent of the women coming out of Saturday Night Live? It’s kind of made the careers of some of today’s biggest comedy stars, but I have not seen in Will Ferrell a performance that comes close to Maya Rudolph’s work, or Kristen Wiig’s, or Tina Fey’s on 30 Rock, or Amy Poehler’s on Parks and Recreation. And incidentally, Molly Shannon was pretty great on Kath & Kim (sorry guys, it’s true).

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Filed under: Kristen Wiig Tina Fey Amy Poehler Maya Rudolph SNL Lorne Michaels Muffin Whip It Whip It 
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