Any Tina Fey fans on? 30 rock is one of my favorite comedies ever but I have found her other work sort of boring

[Anonymous]

I know someone who knew both Tina and Amy at Second City and said both were hilarious and that Amy was also nice.

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Anonymous wrote:30 Rock is absolutely my favorite show of all time, and I think Tina Fey is brilliant on it.

Everything else she is just awful. She is a great writer/show producer/creator - I love Girls 5 Eva, Kimmy Schmidt - but her guest spots on those shows are not great.

Worst on the list is Haunting in Venice - she drags down that movie so badly. An absolutely insane casting decision.

I completely agree with first and last paragraphs here. (I didn’t like Kimmy Schmidt or Girls 5 Eva, though.)

The Haunting in Venice thing was so bad. I think she was great as Liz Lemon because she was essentially playing herself. She’s not a good actress whatsoever for any other kind of role.

[Anonymous]

I love her and think she's grown as an actress. I like "The Four Seasons," and one of the things I like is that she plays her role so naturally. She seems like an ordinary mom in my town.

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Anonymous wrote:I read this once about Tina Fey's comedy and now I can't unsee it - there's an undercurrent of meaness to it.

I loved 30 Rock, so maybe the writer's room helped create a great product.

On the other hand, as a genX myself, maybe now we worry too much about being nice. Maybe everything doesn't always work out. Maybe the world can be m ean. I grew up with movies like pretty in Pink and 16 candles and characters were perhaps more realistic (sort of). There was and is bullying. People are mean.

There’s an episode of 30 Rock where she goes back to her high school reunion and everyone she thought was really mean was actually nice and she was the mean one. There’s some good self-awareness there.

I think it’s complicated for women (or maybe men, too) who felt like outsiders in adolescence/teen years. You develop defense mechanisms that can be as off-putting as the behavior that made them feel necessary in the first place.

[Anonymous]

People forget about additional writers on her projects.
I don’t know how many on any particular project, but 30 rock was certainty not just her. There was a team. Donald Glover was one until he left.

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Anonymous wrote:YOU NEVER SAW MEAN GIRLS?! That one is the best.

No and I know. I have to watch it. I was bullied in junior high so I think I’ve been sort of avoiding it

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Anonymous wrote:People forget about additional writers on her projects.
I don’t know how many on any particular project, but 30 rock was certainty not just her. There was a team. Donald Glover was one until he left.

Op that’s my point I guess. Was 30 rock so great bc of her? Or others?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the writing on Kimmy Scmidt is great- especially Titus Andromedon's lines. Kimmy can't be that funny because she's in a 14 year old brain time warp and Jane Krakowski just plays the same character with the same beloved out of touch lines. But the writing is really there and hilarious. Agree not as good as 30-rock but better than so much else out there.

Titus’s lines on Kimmy are decent but also cliche imo (exuberant but bi!chy g-y man has been done so so often, no?).

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^^ added the symbols bc my first attempts were rejected.

Are these banned words??

[Anonymous]

I think she is very smart, funny and likeable. I think her TV shows, as well as her movies are usually hysterical. Baby mama and Date Night were very good, in my opinion. I also think the supporting cast in her movies are often top notch.

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I like Tina Fey, I enjoy mean humor, and I identify very much with Liz Lemon (well, her work self, anyway) as a successful “normal one” in a creative field, but I think it was the writers’ room that made 30 Rock, not just Tina herself.

[Anonymous]

I love 30 Rock and I think Mean Girls is her masterpiece.

My feeling is that in her other work she's often kind of phoning it in or doing the project because Amy or somebody else needs/wants it to happen.

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Anonymous wrote:She seems like a mean girl and very full of herself (not in a good way). Much prefer her counterpart Amy Poehler.

I actually like this aspect of Tina's personality because it's very Gen X. I wouldn't want everyone to be this way (judgmental, cynical) because that would be miserable, but sometimes the swing in the other direction with Millenials is annoying.

I listened to Amy interviewing Tina for her podcast recently, and they had a conversation about "selling out" basically, with Tina taking the attitude that she doesn't like when people who are already very rich come up with these money-making side projects. Like when a successful actor launches a tequila or something. Amy's perspective was "I think you need to get over it, this is the world now." I am not even sure which one I agree with -- I was born in 1980 and the Gen X part of me kind of agrees with Tina and the Millenial part of me kind of agrees with Amy. But I like that there's an argument at all and appreciate that Tina and people like her still make these arguments. Friction is actually good and we need people in society who challenge and criticize and raise moral and ethical issues, even if they are sometimes wrong. Sometimes it is not, actually, "all good."

I don’t think she’s a mean girl at all. She’s an average looking woman with truly amazing talent and has to deal with all these sex scandals and bimbos and plastic surgery and product launches. I think she’s an awesome role model and if she’s a bit smarter and snarkier than everyone else, she’s earned it.

[Anonymous]

I think a lot of these shows were hits "in their time" and don't really land the same now. I loved Parks and Rec, The Office, and Arrested Development when they aired but find them mostly unwatchable now except for clip reels.
Other writers/actors changed their tone - Steve Carell's work is very different now from the Office years - but I don't think Tina Fey figured out how to shift, or else maybe she's happy with her her new tone but it's less funny.

[Anonymous]

Never saw 30 Rock, Mean Girls was good, I barely remember Date Night or Sisters, kind of plays herself in Only Murders, up and down on SNL (like everyone), UKS I liked.

When I hear Tina Fey I think Baby Mama, If that's on TV I'm probably watching it again.