Tina Fey News Archives

“Girls Just Want to Have Fun"? There's a genius. Memo to "Baby Mama": Your formula has curdled. Rated PG-13. At AMC Loews Boston Common, Regal Fenway Stadium and suburban theaters. ("Baby Mama”

Talented team delivers a dud "BABY MAMA": C+ I n Preston Sturges' 1944 screwball comedy "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," comedienne extraordinaire Betty Hutton plays Trudy Kockenlocker , a not-so-innocent ... via Boston Herald

“Saturday Night Live") would say in the film, "Yeah. I like all of those words.”

By: Megan Dwyer /The Daily Cardinal - April 28, 2008 Tina Fey and her crew of "Saturday Night Live" vets can't support "Baby Mama's" shoddy plot. via The Daily Cardinal

If this weekend proved anything it's that when it comes to movies Tina Fey should stick to writing instead of acting. via Cinema Blend News

"Baby Mama," starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, isn't as bad as it could've been. via Oregon Daily Emerald

"Baby Mama" has delivered more than $18 million for Universal Pictures. That's enough to make the comedy about surrogate motherhood the weekend's top box office draw. via WJRT

“I still want Oprah to play my best friend”

File photo Tina Fey was an unknown in 1997, when she joined Saturday Night Live , a show notorious for closing the door on its female stars. via Columbus Dispatch

This week on Drew's Review, the new Tina Fey movie "Baby Mama." Will this be the new hit comedy or next bust? Since Saturday Night Live, I've been a big fan of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. via WXIA-TV Atlanta

“There are more women obviously than were even included in the article”

You've herd of glass houses. Well, Tina Fey lives in a house of glasses. "There are four or five pairs everywhere," says the Queen of Comedy. via Beacon News

“Odd Couple"-style comedy stars Fey as a busy executive whose baby is being delivered by a gum-cracking, cocktail-swigging surrogate mom. Meanwhile, "Harold & Kumar”

Tina Fey's "Baby Mama" and the "Harold & Kumar" sequel -- two new comedies with no overlapping audience -- will take the top spots at the weekend box office in North America. via WNED.org

“An intriguing new thriller that abandons that intrigue for a messy and unsatisfying finale.”

Director Errol Morris is shown during the making of "Standard Operating Procedure," a documentary on the abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at Abu Ghraib prison. via Myrtle Beach Online

“Infertility and who can have a baby and who can't has been a big issue with a lot of people in my life. Though there is a lot of emotion and anger there is a lot of humor and funny stuff that goes with it”

Last week, at the ever-so-swanky Ritz-Carlton near Central Park, Universal held a press conference for its upcoming feature, Baby Mama , which opens the Tribeca Film Festival tonight. via Cinematical

“I knew I was supposed to have a baby”

Baby Mama ? Really? That's where we're going with this? We're turning supposedly grown women into juvenile idiots like we've been doing with supposedly grown men of late? Look: Babies are great. via Salt Lake City Weekly

“Things are going well right now, but I am pragmatic and I am always like, 'Now I need to be ready for a long silence,'”

She is known as the political and media-savvy comic from "Saturday Night Live," the sketch comedy show that helped her launch her own award-winning "30 Rock." Now Tina Fey hopes to parlay that television ... via Reuters

Caught an Austin sneak screening of Baby Mama on Tuesday night, and I'm not totally sure what to make of the movie. via Blogs.indieWIRE.com

“And, secondly, this is a time when women need to say `We're going to this movie.'”

Single businesswoman Kate Holbrook explains the house rules to her surrogate, working girl Angie Ostrowiski in the comic story of two women, one apartment and the nine months that will change their lives in ... via Kansas.com

Although it certainly sets the stage for some fertile comedy, "Baby Mama" -- which pairs Tina Fey with Amy Poehler -- never fully delivers. via Reuters

“It was called Inside Vladimir. I forget who coined the name, but it was after a porn movie at a store called J.J. Peppers.”

If her Hillary Clinton imitation seems especially accurate these days, it might be because Amy Poehler has been sharing another trait with the senator: serious sleep deprivation. via Beacon News

“The impetus for the movie was really about working with Tina and Amy”

If Amy Poehler is about to become the next Saturday Night Live cast member to break out as a movie star, she has clearly chosen the right comedy partner in Tina Fey. via London Free Press

“Normally it's about a guy who gets dumped by a pretty girl and ends up with a prettier girl. This is not that.”

THE unwritten rule of Hollywood comedies is like that classic admonition given boxers the night before a fight: Women weaken legs. via Chicago Tribune

In addition to her gig on SNL , Amy Poehler serves up laughs in the new cartoon The Mighty B! and in the not-so G-rated Baby Mama . via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“You don't see this all the time”

It's a star-gazer's paradise - that is if you can be patient. Workers at Osgood Landing learned that they're going to need a little more time than a mere lunch break if they want to catch a glimpse of a movie ... via GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA

“I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I feel like I haven't -- I want to spend time with Oprah, and I don't know what I need to do to make that happen.”

NBC's 30 Rock has had its share of big guest stars -- Jerry Seinfeld, Isabella Rossellini, Edie Falco -- over the course of its two seasons, something for which creator-star Tina Fey is more than a little ... via Zap2it.com

“A lot of these parts who are regulars, I wrote with people in mind”

Tina Fey. "TinaFey" ... you somehow can't keep yourself from stringing the name together, like Tracy Morgan always used to on Saturday Night Live - " before he started calling her "LizLemon" on 30 Rock. via The Toronto Star

'30 Rock' with Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey returns from the writers' strike stronger than ever. via New York Daily News

“And Bucky tells Kenneth some very shocking and racy stories about the old days of television.”

"30 Rock" is one of the few returning shows that could have some fun with the three-month writers' strike settled in February. via KXAN-TV Austin

Posted Apr 7th 2008 4:02PM by Patricia Chui Filed under: Fandom , Interviews , Unscripted An upwardly mobile career woman wants to have a baby -- but she's fertility-challenged; so she enlists the help of a ... via Cinematical

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made for a dynamic duo when they hosted Weekend Update on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, and the pair reunites for this comedy. via Rotten Tomatoes

Last week, Tina Fey was kind enough to talk to the press on a conference call about the return of the hilarious comedy series, 30 Rock . via Cinema Blend News

“Actually, we do have a storyline coming up where Jack tries to enlist Tracy to be the new black face of the Republican Party.”

On a conference call with journalists Tuesday afternoon, Tina Fey, creator, writer and star of "30 Rock," discussed what's coming up for the comedy as it returns to NBC from the writers' strike on April 10. via Los Angeles Times