pretty funny

[kudaspeaks]

I just read kind of a sad little article about how Rachel Dratch can't get a job after getting hosed out of her part on 30 Rock and not invited to that dreadful Vanity Fair photo shoot and cover piece in which the refreshing beauty of our fairest funnee laydeez was extolled. I guess the purpose was to rebut habitual drunken provocateur Chris

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[doraphilia]

That's a sad article. I do love Tina Fey though.

[kudaspeaks]

I don't worry about Tina, except a little bit when she's a little too into her newfound librarian hotness. I do worry about the person who wrote the article in VF though. She gushes and gushes about how conventionally lovely they all are, like real actresses and everything, and meanwhile they are all thinking "Bitch, I worked my funny bone to the marrow to get to main stage at Second City back in the day and you're excited I'm a size four? And who let Chelsea Handler in here?"

Seriously, this writer would have recoiled if a young Carol Burnett had strolled in. Uncute! Uncute!

[oilyrags]

'Racks holding candles' has been added to my interest list. I think it was also a scene in that Madonna/Willem Dafoe movie.

[kudaspeaks]

Mmm, "Body of Evidence." Such a terrible, watchable movie. That was the very first Movie of Shame that my friends and I ever went to. Movies so embarrassing to be caught seeing that you came up with a cover story before you bought a ticket and went to the first show on Saturday morning to avoid crowds.

Don't the Swedes wear rack candles to celebrate Michaelmas or somesuch?

[calamityjon]

I get more and more frustrated with the art directors who insist on photographing Tina Fey in the "Nerd Pinup" array, as though it were some sort of surprise that she is hot, like she's a hot chimpanzee or something equally surprising. "Funny ... AND HOT? Now hold on a second, mister!"

It would be much preferable if they'd just photograph her, you know, like they photograph comedians. Standing there. Being funny. Expressing a personality. YOU KNOW.

[yuriverse]

I have vague memories of a magazine cover back in 90s that had some TV interviewer who was doing a special on "those beautiful women of comedy!!!" or something, and in the photo, he sat there on a stool, arms folded, while - of course - a half-dozen of the year's acclaimed women comedians stared seductively at the camera ... while their hands were pawed all over him like he was teh Hefner & they was bunnies, like. While dressed in glamourous revealing gowns, and looking all posh.

At least Judy Tenuta (numbered among them) had the comedic class to cross her eyes and make a wrinkly-nosed face, bless her heart.

[lauri8]

Oh mang. A-goddamn-men.