Nothing quite like stating the obvious is there?

But if she never said "I don't do that, I don't go for the easy clapter" then it doesn't necessarily mean she's not self-aware. It just means she's making an observation about comedy.

If laughter is the best medicine, clapter is the best generic equivalent that sick old Reader's Digest subscribers can afford.

@CodePink: i'm pretty sure that tina fey is under the impression that she is actually funny is the thing there.

Totally. She may not be funny, but she sure isn't stupid.

Tina Fey is God, goddess, Zeus, Hera and urbane tomboy wrapped into a sushi roll so cute you can't help but want to eat it. Oh wait, but then she'd be dead? So never mind. What I really want to say is, Tina Fey is the baddest mutha and cute as a button so say nothing to impugn her, please.

@allyzay: Hey now.

wow...lady, you're on SNL for chrissake. Your humor is so dumb downed, Jay Leno laughs at your stuff.

But I already coined the term clapter to mean transmitting a sexual infection in a helicopter!

@allyzay: Right. But I'm just saying I can say "Zits are gross and can make people look less attractive than they normally look" but it doesn't mean that I've never had them.

I am making a super important point!11!!!

@In Other News...: pistols at dawn?

Of course, they don't have "Applause" signs in The Daily Show studio.

For decades, Reader's Digest has been the voice of wit and humor in America, providing tens of millions of people with timely, clever, clean jokes, cartoons and stories.

This from someone who was head writer of SNL from 1999-2009, a particularly mirthless period of the show (and that's saying something). She's just mad cause The Daily Show covered current events faster, better and funnier and made her stint on Weekend Update obsolete.

Then I wonder what she must honestly think of the writing on SNL under Seth Meyers.

@crooked_teeth: Um, no she isn't.
@allyzay: Heads, you're Hamilton, tails, you're Burr. Call it (flick!)....

@crooked_teeth: *dumbed down, of course. And, that said, 30 Rock is all right by me. But in terms of political humor, such as it is, and a decent interview, I wouldn't mess with Stewart.

@cockfightbarmitzvah: 1999-2005

@cockfightbarmitzvah: Again - she left the show in 2006. Joined in 1997. I AM HER BODYGUARD!!!!

@collegecallgirl: Why don't you have a star by your name?

@collegecallgirl: Or, the midpoint of book the closing of which produces the loudest resulting sound?

@In Other News...: what is Weekend Update then? I'm confused.

Since most people are reading Reader's Digest on the can, wouldn't the appropriate term be "crapter"?

@In Other News...: You want to be Grizz or Dotcom? @allyzay: I'm a cut you on your way to that duel.

Tina Fey wrote sexist humor for Saturday Night Live and got over. Then she wrote sexist Mean Girls and got over some more. Tina Fey is a Mean Girl who gets over. More power to her, I guess. But she also, like poor horse-faced Sarah Jessica Parker, thinks she's way "cuter" than reality proves. Parker seems like the type of girl Fey would have meaned into an eating disorder in high school.

@crooked_teeth: She is not on the show anymore. Like millions of others who saw her "bitch is the new black" sketch online, you probably (mistakenly) assumed she was still on the show, when in fact she was hosting. You also cited "30 Rock," which is the reason she left SNL, so there should be no confusion. STAY AWAY FROM THE TINA!!!

@crooked_teeth: Yeah, he's one of the only people in news today who can be counted on to regularly ask a tough question and then not immediately buckle when the guest responds with doublespeak pablum. And maybe if everyone in the studio audience doesn't laugh uproariously at every joke, it's because you have to think about some of them.

First, the vast right wing conspiracy tries to divide the Democratic Party now attempt to cause a war between two of our best television humorists. I will not play into their vast right wing hands or wings or whatever.

@Conbon: "I miss you, Grizz."

@In Other News...: I see..she was guest hosting when she did that Hillary Clinton bit. Yeah, there wasn't ANY clapter there that evening.

@Bell County: Shhhh. Touchy.

@the Librarian: Wrong, on levels 3, 19, 45, 102, 178, 243, 782, 915 and those in between. Which means WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS.

@In Other News...: Worldcom. [Sigh]

@In Other News...: And what of her promoting Jimmy Fallon to co-anchor Weekend Update during her period there as well (she definitely had some say in it as head writer)? That alone is grounds for comedy court marshall. And did they have to coin the term "masturlaughing" (continually laughing at your own jokes cause no one else would) for him too. If not, I just did.

@crooked_teeth: We are SO going to the videotape:

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She seems smart and all, but looks like she has no idea what to do with that vibrator she's holding there.

@cockfightbarmitzvah: Jimmy Fallon was Lorne Michaels's fault. And Jeff Zucker's. And Satan's. NEXT.

@moff: exactly. No offense to Tina Fay, who I generally like...but doing 5 minutes of material once a week -- her SNL gig back when -- that has to kowtow to the sensibilities of an audience in Florida does not compare to being the centerpiece of a half-hour show, 5 days a week, where you're doing material and an interview. I mean, honestly, she's...(out of respect to In Other News)...being a bit obtuse.

"30 Rock" is genius. Tina Fey is hot. I [Heart] her madly. That is all . . .

Chapster is when you do a joke while wearing chaps.

@Conbon: well that's not fair, cutting a preoccupied duelist. i'm withdrawing!

@SuperBien: You are wise.

Reader's Digest can also be read out of the can.
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@allyzay: Preoccupied with how awesome Tina Fey is? That's okay. You win by default then.

@crooked_teeth: 5 minutes? The show is 90 minutes long last time I checked.

@cockfightbarmitzvah:
Not for nothing, when Tina did get to be in charge of casting, she hired Tracy Morgan, Alec Baldwin, Scott Adsit, Judah Friedlander, Jack McBrayer, and Elaine motherfucking Stritch.

@crooked_teeth: Misspelling her name... getting her show wrong... admit it, you like her.

Tina Fey: meh.
Jon Stewart: genius.

That is all.

@In Other News...: hmmm....I distinctly heard a difference in audience laughter pitch level during the first minute of the clip vs. the latter portion where she goes with the easier jokes.

@Conbon: i'm talking about comparing her weekend update segment with The Daily Show. But you're right, she did have writing duties as well for the other..ahem, skits.

@Conbon: It must be true if it's on the Interweb.

@crooked_teeth: Point - on other side of the room, like twenty feet away. You - stretching your arm out as if to grasp at point. which means YOU ARE REACHING.

@crooked_teeth: I like her too, but obtuse is the right word. (Just don't say that to Liz Lemon! She has enough body issues as it is!)

On a related note, I think Stewart deserves megaprops for getting the show together every day during the writers' strike. I don't know what that entailed exactly, but I do know that when we went to the taping in January, he alluded to being pretty fucking exhausted and he looked it, too.

@Gwinny: Yeah, in BIZARRO world, said Stephen Colbert.

@In Other News...: I don't mind Tina Fey at all. And, actually, I kind of admire her for having the stones to take on Stewart. But listen, you want funny, edgy women. I'll still take Garofalo any day of the week.

@In Other News...: I've had this talk before. You're marrying my mother, aren't you?

@crooked_teeth: Ahem, sketches!

She's right, when they're clapping, they're not laughing. That's a comedy truism, though. Rule one- make 'em laugh. Rule two- see rule one.

And to be fair, Jon Stewart doesn't exactly revel in the applause, does he? He looks downright peeved at times, like, "let's get on with it!"

@crooked_teeth: She was head writer. Which is something I would not necessarily put out there as brag material, given that Weekend Update is the only consistently funny segment of the show.

Please note that I feel OK with saying this since the little woman and I do nevertheless watch it pretty much every week.

@crooked_teeth: OK, now we have to part ways.

Actually, she's 100% wrong. I've been to the Daily Show and they don't have applause signs. That's all the rabid Jon Stewart fans.

All this is silly. They're both funny, but Tina is Jon with tits and no modesty. And she should be taken to task for casting aspersions on anything unfunny, given that SNL's very existence is a mystery to all and has been for at least 20 years.

@Conbon: Jeez, why doncha marry her already?

@crooked_teeth: Come on. Garofalo? Really?!?

@In Other News...: i fully admit that 75% of my prejudice against tina fey is completely irrational so you shouldn't really mind me at all here. i'm sure she's lovely.