Chicks Aren't Funny: your Tina Fey update

Posted at 4:11 PM Dec 01, 2008

By Andrea Grimes

Sometime soon I'm just going to start calling my Monday girl-comedy column "Tina Fey Update, Other Stuff." Reading the news, you'd think she was the only funny gal in this U.S. and A. And she may be, especially if this month's Vanity Fair cover has any say. It features Fey in pompous American regalia, sexy but not aggressive. I'm not sure we're ready for our funny women to be sexually aggressive as well as funny. Pick your poison, as they say.

Anyhoo, the VF article is by Maureen Dowd, which can go one of two ways: Maureen lets Tina tell the story and we get some new insight into "A New American Sweetheart!" or Maureen Dowd tells a story about Maureen Dowd and we just have to be thankful for Annie Leibovitz's photo talent. In any case, the big story has broken: in the article, Fey's husband tells the world about the source of his wife's signature cheek scar. Seems some asshole stranger walked right up to a 5-year-old Fey, playing in her front yard, and cut her. WTF? Also, sidenote: those sexy stems are apparently the result of a Weight Watchers kick during Fey's SNL days, before which her husband describes her as "Rubenesque." I ask you, television, is nothing good enough?