Sunday Diva/Three From The Hip: Tina Fey

Sunday Diva/Three From The Hip:

Tina Fey

In my own personal big gay church, there is a wing dedicated to the Ladies Of Comedy. Theses are the gals who made us laugh and, on occasion, brought a tear to our eyes. They are visionaries, capturing aspects of the human condition while holding up a mirror to the world. Their characters, style, and phrases have helped form our daily vernacular in ways we are not even always aware of - but that is the power of comedy and the magic these ladies all possess. Breaking ground while breaking all the rules?

The whipsmart Tina Fey!

The world remains in awe of this woman. She's so insightful, so dead-on. Time and time again she nails it... perfectly.

And while it's easy to fall under her spell... you fall under this woman's eye at your own risk!

But don't worry - she never 'goes after' people. She merely gives you the devil, and sits down and levels with you. She tells her truth - the unvarnished kind.

The great thing is, she does it with such style, I promise, you won't even mind being exposed. 

She's that way with people and with the world at large. For this diva sees things and isn't afraid to share what she finds. 

It's refreshing. And I think it's her honesty that has us all enthralled. She never shies away from telling us the whole stinkin' truth. 

And we, the world? Are all the better for it!

The gospel according to her?

Well, here are three from the hip dropping from her lips.

The topic? Growing Funny

"Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward."

"I was a very confident little kid."

"Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity."

"The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to."

"I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing."

"I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it."

"I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too."

"After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you."

"Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great."

"We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn't let us watch The Flintstones if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of The Honeymooners. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old Honeymooners."

"I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities."

Tan France & Tina Fey Give Rachel Dratch

 An Arianne Grande Look

Dressing Funny

Girls Meet Blerta - Tina Fey and Cast

SNL

A QVC/HSN Christmas - Tina Fey w/ Busy Philipps

Busy This Week

And one last parting shot...

"I 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."