Tina Fey Gets Mark Twain Humor Prize for a Lifetime of One Achievement
She impersonated Sarah Palin. When I heard that Tina Fey would be given the Mark Twain Prize For American Humor I had this comment : Tina Fey?? Give me a break. Let’s take a look a the list of past winners: 2009 Bill Cosby 2008 George Carlin 2007 Billy Crystal 2006 Neil Simon 2005 Steve Martin 2004 Lorne Michaels 2003 Lilly Tomlin 2002 Bob Newhart 2001 Whoopi Goldberg 2000 Carl Reiner 1999 Jonathan Winters 1998 Richard Pryor Look at the lifetime of achievements that each of those previous winners can claim. Does anyone seriously believe that Tina Fey belongs in this class of comics? No. She’s a former actor on Saturday Night Live, has a moderately successful sitcom on NBC, and has made a movie or two with modest results. Oh, and she parodied Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. She came up with the “I can see Russia from my house” quote. NOW we know why she’s getting the award. Yesterday she was given the award and gave a backhand thanks to Sarah Palin while trashing other conservative women : Actress Tina Fey, who was granted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Tuesday, paid a backhanded tribute to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and criticized the rise of conservative women in politics during her award acceptance speech. “I would be a liar and an idiot if I didn’t thank Sarah Palin for helping me get here tonight,” Fey said. “My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that have ever happened to me.” This award was as politically correct as they come. Fey did not have the lifetime of achievements in humor that the previous winners had – she was given this by people who wanted to show how clever they are as they bash conservatives.
Tina Fey Gets Mark Twain Humor Prize for a Lifetime of One Achievement
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on November 10, 2010. Filed under