Tag Archives: tina fey

Aug 29

Born to glee

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Here, in an abridged form, is the hysterical opening of tonight’s Emmycast. In the interest of comedy, I will forgive the desecration of the greatest rock and roll song of all time.

Look for Emmy host Jimmy Fallon, cast members from “Glee” (including Jane Lynch), Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, Betty White, Joel McHale, Tim Gunn, Jorge Garcia and Randy Jackson, among others.

Strangely, they omit the setup – Jimmy arrives for the Emmys and sees the “Glee” kids hanging around outside the theater. They can’t afford tickets for the show. But what if they could win the big cash prize from a conveniently-upcoming glee club competition?

Oct 01

Embed problem

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If your feed reader tried to direct you to a non-existent post titled “Conan and Julia (and Kenneth the Page),” my apologies. I found a really funny clip and tried to embed it, and the embed code was giving me trouble — one version worked on IE but not on other browsers, the other version worked on everything but IE.

Anyway, the clip — which I saw embedded at another blog — was of a scripted comedy bit between Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Conan O’Brien when Julia was a guest on Conan’s show, I assume last night. When Tina Fey won an Emmy for best actress in a comedy, she saluted Julia — one of the other nominees — in her acceptance speech, saying that she sometimes uses Julia as a source of inspiration. Conan and Julia joked about the injustice of Julia losing the Emmy in this fashion, and then Conan tells Julia that “30 Rock” is being taped on another floor there at Rockefeller Center and that Tina Fey has the Emmy in her dressing room.

Julia decides to steal the Emmy. I won’t give the rest of the sketch away; you can find it at Conan’s web site. If they fix the embed code, I may embed it here later.

UPDATE: I now have a link on my Facebook profile.