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Tina Fey doesn’t want your heavy-handed speeches on the cultural issues weighing heavily on our’s and Hollywood’s shoulders, oh no. The Queen of Comedy can see right through it, your bleeding heart attempt at kickstarting societal change. You’re all over the place, you see. There’s probably a better place to crusade for your cause of choice, instead of an awards ceremony where multi-millionaires attempt to gain validation via the tastes of other millionaires through a relatively arbitrary voting process. She made her thoughts known in a rant on Howard Stern.
First up on Fey’s Menu O’ Judgement was Chris Rock’s opening monologue, which pushed back against the utter lack of diversity at this year’s Oscars. She was pleased.
“I thought his monologue was fantastic. That’s the tricky thing about shows like that – you don’t get a dress rehearsal. You don’t get that opportunity.
Then she explained that you wanted Chris Rock, you got Chris Rock. (And anyone who thought Chris Rock wouldn’t be Chris Rock obviously doesn’t know Chris Rock.)
“This is what you ordered – you wanted this.”
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“because, let’s face it, actors are very stupid”
That is quite true.
Leo is a lot of things, smart is not one of them. He thinks Chinooks and climate change are the same thing. He’s the worst possible advocate for stopping climate change, he’s totally uninformed on the issue and a massive hypocrite
Plus he totally could have climbed onto that floating wreckage with Kate Winslet and didn’t.
@Homo_Erectus I initially read that as “he totally could have climbed onto that floating wreckage, Kate Winslet, and didn’t”
@MickTravis4Life now I wish I *had* typed that.
>Chinooks
no need for that type of language, it’s Asian Americans please!
Jason, I read a piece on this very website stating that the new thank you scroll will hopefully free up time for actors to address social issues. Good to know not everyone is so out of touch. Thanks.
“Then she explained that you wanted Chris Rock, you got Chris Rock. (And anyone who thought Chris Rock wouldn’t be Chris Rock obviously doesn’t know Chris Rock.)”
Chris Rock. CHRIS ROCK.
Uh-huh….I guess all those times she and Leslie Knope makes gender jokes when hosting and/or presenting don’t count?
^THIS.
I think the word is “jokes”.
She’s fine with Chris Rock doing a politically-tuned comedic monologue because it’s still funny.
Her problem is with these endless screeds that aren’t funny and are vaguely hypocritical.
Doesn’t Tina Fey take nearly every opportunity to make points about the way women are treated in Hollywood? Yea, but don’t preach about race.