For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
Tina FeyI was taken to an examining room where a big butch nurse practitioner came in and asked me if I was pregnant. โNo way!โ Was I sexually active? โNope!โ Had I ever been molested? โWell,โ I said, trying to make a joke, โOprah says the only answers to that question are โYesโ and โI donโt remember.โ โ I laughed. We were having fun. The nurse looked at me, concerned/annoyed.
Tina FeyYou transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: "No, I'm a person. You can't fix my underpants on the subway."
Tina FeyWhat Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.
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.
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