Tina Fey Joins Twitter

You can put Tina Fey on Twitter but you can't make her tweet. Chris Anderson, though? Don't even get the Wired editor started. More »

Michael Phelps' New York Bender

It's all relative: Madonna's way less grounded than her ex; Vancouverites are higher than Britney Spears; Tina Fey is as folksy as her neighbor; and Michael Phelps isn't quite the drunkest clubber. More »

Jennifer Aniston Rumored Single Again

Bad couple day: Robert Pattinson's Tina Fey lust would be inappropriate, except she started it; there's a conspiracy against the Rihanna-Chris Brown reunion; and John Mayer maybe dumped Jennifer Aniston. More »

30 Rock's 'McFlurry' Episode: More Protestations of Purity

Last week we totally harshed on NBC's 30 Rock for writing McDonald's McFlurry into its script in such a sellout-y way. But it was all natural, no ad money, just for fun, allegedly! More »

'30 Rock' McFlurryGate Overshadowing More Persuasive iPhone-Contra Affair

For all the e-ink spilled over whether 30 Rock gave the McFlurry too much product placement last week (even Jane Krakowski is unsure now!), we think there's a different, far bigger case to be made. More »

Tina Fey Denies McFlurry Payola, Disowns Twitter Account

Last night's McFlurry-obsessed episode of 30 Rock? Totally not a McDonald's product placement, avers Tina Fey, the show's writer and star, and we must believe her, as she is everything right and good about America. More »

'Candy Land' To Seduce Your Children Like Sugarcoated Crack

· Tropic Thunder writer Etan Cohen will pen Universal's adaptation of Hasbro's Candy Land, with Enchanted's Kevin Lima set to direct. This will probably wind up matching Enchanted's tone of grownup-servicing kiddie-nip: More »

Jon Hamm Smothered In Frosting For '30 Rock' Appearance

Via Videogum, we bring you a sneak preview of Jon Hamm's "multi-episode arc" on 30 Rock, playing Liz Lemon's ice-cream-making, frosting-smeared pediatrician neighbor and crush object. (He debuts the episode after next.)
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The Creepy Corporate Cult Behind Last Night's 30 Rock

Who's the newest Six Sigma expert? Tina Fey. The cultish quality process observed by her employer, NBC Universal, is a predictable source of profitable laughs for her show, 30 Rock and all too real. More »

Birds Suck

· Say what you want about US Airways—their pilots are emergency-water-landing champs. Experience the terror via the eyewitness account of one scared-shitless passenger. More »

Alec Baldwin Reveals The Secret To His '30 Rock' Performance: Bad Acting

Alec Baldwin has never been a shrinking violet, but his recent rash of revelations (like suicidal thoughts and coked-up alien gunfights) is candid to a fault. Now, he reveals his secret to acting: be bad! More »

The Twitterati Say Far Too Much

One would think that Twitter's 140-character limit would put a cap on oversharing. But one would be wrong. Hints of a 30 Rock star's bowel movements, plans for drinking in public, delicious hair, and more: More »

Internet Unofficially Apologizes To Tina Fey

Awards gadfly Tom O'Neil wasted little time exploiting Tina Fey's indictment of his site's anonymous, comedienne-slagging commenters at last night Golden Globes, nearly tripping over his clown shoes backstage to grovel for forgiveness. More »

Did Tina Fey's Fight With Alec Baldwin Actually Happen?

It wouldn't be Christmas Eve without fighting: Alec Baldwin supposedly slammed Tina Fey's body; Paris Hilton's uncle got attacked and robbed in his home and Nicole Kidman was haunted by Katie Holmes. More »

Celebrity Emails Exposed In Holiday Greeting Screw Up

Marie Claire just wanted to wish everyone a "sparkling, joyful and warm holiday," but the magazine's flack forgot to Bcc, exposing precious celebrity email addresses to 582 people. Christmas is ruined! More »

The Most Entertaining Woman On Earth

· Tina Fey was named AP's Entertainer of the Year, which comes with the prize that she be referred to as "Entertainer of the Year Tina Fey" in every AP mention in 2009. [Variety]

"I'm Gonna Fill It Up With All That Surprise Money I Found In My Coat Pocket."

[The increasingly famous, increasingly rich Tina Fey filming a scene of her show "30 Rock" with Jack McBrayer today; image via INF]

Tina Fey Breaks Campaign Promise, Forced to Play Sarah Palin Once More

Remember this lady, Sarah Palin? She was famous for appearing every Saturday night on the tee-vee, saying cute things about Russia, gays, and Katie Couric. Or maybe that was her portrayer, Tina Fey?

Tina Fey's Command Performance For Greasy Politicos

• Tina Fey agreed to be Lorne Michaels' awkward circus monkey at gathering of Albany lawmakers discussing TV production tax credits. "She seemed incredibly uncomfortable... Someone said, ‘Do a Sarah Palin!’ and she did a Sarah Palin." Cringe. [NYM]

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Report: Sarah Palin destroying Web video

We've uncovered what's really killing the online-advertising business: Sarah Palin! Or rather, the lack thereof. Traffic at Hulu, NBC's YouTube wannabe, tumbled in November without the Web's favorite hot lady governor and VP candidate.

Tina Fey Trades The Secret Of The Scar For A Solo 'Vanity Fair' Cover

Every so often, Vanity Fair will consent to putting a television star on their hallowed cover, but there's typically an implicit bargain that actor has to make to earn it. Think back to Teri Hatcher, who grabbed VF's top spot only after revealing how childhood sexual abuse led to fantasies of suicide (which the magazine teased on its cover with some disconcertingly unclad pictures of the star, because of course). Now, Vanity Fair has placed Tina Fey on the cover — an utterly justified spot, to be sure — and has finally nudged the actress and her husband to reveal something Fey always said she wouldn't: just how she got that famous facial scar.

Did Steve Martin Undo The '30 Rock' Celebrity Cameo Curse?

Well, that depends on how you define "undo." Ratings-wise, it's down a tenth from Jennifer Aniston's episode last week, which itself was down from Oprah's the week previous. (THR suggests that's not so much a bad sign for the sitcom as it is a natural settling after the season premiere bump it enjoyed following Feylinmania.) But if you define it as a return to form, then yes, something about Martin's presence—playing Gavin Volure, an agoraphobic Ted Turner type you later find out is actually under house arrest for embezzlement and racketeering—clicked the show back into all cylinders after a subpar third season start. Among its gems: the introduction of the term "away-toilet situation" into the popular lexicon, hand-puppet voodoo, and a description of Toronto as being "just like New York, but without all the stuff." Then there's the first date sequence above, in which Volure unwittingly presents himself as Lemon's sexless, TV show-goofing dream man. [30 Rock Full Episodes]

Tina Fey Suggests That Defamer Has Some Issues

Few things made us laugh harder than Tina Fey's devastatingly precise Sarah Palin send-ups on Saturday Night Live this season (or the fact that the quote that will be attributed to the candidate for all time, "I can see Russia from my house," was said not by Palin but by Fey). Still, as the hardest working woman in comedy was repeatedly spirited away from her 30 Rock duties, we grew worried for her — after all, she has a show, a kid, a book, an Emmy, an upcoming Steve Carell romcom... couldn't Lorne Michaels let the woman rest? We voiced our concerns after the SNL sketch where Fey appeared with the actual John McCain (her sixth appearance on the show this season), and now Fey is telling EW that she took our words to heart: More »

Tina Fey Counting on Oprah to Keep 30 Rock Ratings Boom Going

After Tina Fey's massive exposure as Sarah Palin on pre-election SNL, the season premiere of 30 Rock was given every chance to succeed. That push resulted in the show's highest ratings ever, but the show is far from out of danger: it still finished in third place in its timeslot behind CSI and Grey's Anatomy, and now it has to contend with the dreaded second-episode drop-off. Fey was obviously planning ahead for that, saving an Oprah cameo for tonight. Click for three clips in the preview, including a classic Alec-Tina scene. More »

Tina Fey Fires Herself as Sarah Palin

Oprah may have been vibrating out in Chicago, but Tina Fey nearly burst with relief at Sarah Palin's expulsion back to Alaska on Tuesday. "I have to retire just because I have to do my day job,” she told Entertainment Weekly this morning, suggesting Kristin Wiig as her flute-rockin', pageant-walkin' heiress apparent should Palin persist as figure worthy of late-night ridicule. We agree, if only to provide a cannier doppelganger for all those confused, frustrated European photo agencies. [EW]

John McCain's Cold War With Tina Fey

• Tina Fey was "frosty" and "awkward" with John McCain on the Saturday Night Live set. Which is weird because McCain has been so polished and friendly in all his other televised appearances. [Scoop]
• Barack Obama has sewn up the crucial Tyra Banks endorsement. Presumably, the talk-show host waited until the last minute to keep us all in suspense. [Us]
• A "snarling" Diane Sawyer is asking her gang, the Good Morning Americas, why Barbara Walters and her posse of simps at The View are moving in on GMA's territory. Page Six is forecasting a bloody turf war. [P6]
• Unsurprisingly, Shannen Doherty is not too concerned with the future of print media or of the modeling skanks at Radar's party. [P6]
• Peaches Geldof "forgot" to pay for something before removing it from a store. For the fourth time. The latest shoplifting accident was at a clothing boutique in East London. [Sun]
• While trying to reconcile with ex-husband Kevin Federline, Britney Spears is communicating with her terrible paparazzo ex, from her crazy days. "Adnan searches the Internet for photos of her and then calls and comments on her outfits and her hair, and she loves it." [National Enquirer]
• Joaquin Phoenix is acting weird. Drunk/high weird? Unclear. [P6]
• Mickey Rourke was going to kill this guy who raped his friend, but was stopped by a priest. No further details are available at this time, or probably ever. [Sun]

Why Did McCain Allow SNL Palin Slams?

John McCain was reasonably funny on Saturday Night Live last night, but the show's most entertaining moments came during Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impression in his opening sketch. One was a joke about Palin's $150,000 wardrobe, the other about how she wants to run in 2012. It's funny because Palin's a terrible, out-of-control pick of a running mate and because McCain is broke and doomed. Ha.... ha? In the attached clip, McCain says the SNL gig was to "humanize" him with people who don't watch Meet The Press, but instead it's already being read as a "big... 'fuck you'" to Palin. Credit should probably go to Fey: She's a charmer but will most definitely cut you. Sort of like Palin. Sketch highlights are after the jump. More »