If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
Tina FeyTo say Iโm an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
Tina FeyWhen I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.
Tina FeyI got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.
Tina FeyWhen humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
Tina FeyOne afternoon a girl walked by in a bikini and my cousin Janet scoffed, โLook at the hips on her.โ I panicked. What about the hips? Were they too big? Too small? What were my hips? I didnโt know hips could be a problem. I thought there was just fat or skinny. This was how I found out that there are an infinite number of things that can be โincorrectโ on a womanโs body.
Tina Fey