Kennedy Center to present 13th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Tina Fey later this year.Tina Fey?? Give me a break. Let's take a look a the list of past winners:
2009 Bill CosbyLook 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.
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
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.
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As goes the Nobel Prize, so also goes all of the other "prizes".
Sour grapes Rick.
It's easy to parody Sarah Palin.
Just repeat what she has said and done.
Eg, "Obama pals around with terrorists" like William Ayers and, um, ah, William Ayers.
"Betcha"
"Gotcha"
"Mama grizzly"
"Pink elephant"
If it's as easy to parody Sarah Palin as you say, that's all the more reason why an award like this is not merited.
And she is just like Obama. Very skinny on the resume.
Indeed, she owes her fame to Sarah Palin -- people like me never heard of her until Palin came along. Of course I never heard of a tv show called "Lost" either until two days ago.
I've been busy.
I see Lew is back. Taking a wild guess, he has not read Palin's book.
Why do the Dems never read anything anymore?
She's well deserving - check out her bio at www.imdb.com - 2 golden globes, numerous emmys, starring roles in 'Date Night' and 'Baby Mama'. She also wrote the screenplay for, and co-stared in, 'Mean Girls', a #1 film in 2004. A movie made for $17 million that grossed $130 million - not too shabby.
She is more deserving of this award than Elena Kagan is of a seat on the Supreme Court, but that goes without saying...
Michelle Obama Releases New Exercise Program Called “Obamarcise”
While Real American first lady Sarah Palin spent yesterday boarding up her windows with plywood to keep her terrible new spy-journalist neighbor from lookin’ in, America’s elected toned-arms lady Michelle Obama ran around the White House’s South Lawn hopping like a bunny rabbit and picking fights with other people’s children. Obama’s just launched a new program called Let’s Move to encourage kids to put down their frozen PorkPops and Crisco Crunchers and burn off some calories before they get super-sized. What is Michelle Obama’s new five-year fitness plan all about? MORE »
Read more at Wonkette: http://www.wonkette.com/#ixzz0p3oNcRAO
And Ann, I think 400 pages is a lot for a colouring book.
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