She was hilarous in 30 Rock. I loved that show. Not bad for a working Mom with two kids but I fail to see the point maybe because I never watch Letterman.
A helpful guide to the flavours of fame: Part one - hysteria and the media 2. MEDIA FAME "...30 Rock was a show about showbiz, and its audience was showbiz. They showered the show and its cast with praise, prizes and enough hullabaloo to make it seem like it was huge. Tina Fey also enjoyed some notoriety for an impression of 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. It had become so big, at least in the media, that Palin often found herself being asked to explain things said by Fey as if they had been said by her.
Fey would often muse aloud if her Palin impression had kept her show from finding a wider audience. Probably not, but it probably didn’t hurt its chances for staying on the air despite its low ratings because of the hyper-partisan nature of American politics, and Hollywood’s revulsion at anything and anyone associated with the Republican Party.
As 30 Rock scraped the bottom of the ratings barrel, Fey also starred in several movies, none of Fey's "successful" starring vehicles cracked the $100 million barrier at the box office, and several bombed horribly. None of that underperformance has slowed her career one bit.
...Because in the eyes of people in the media, it's not about the quantity of the audience, it's about the quality. Few people watch her, but a lot of those who do have TV shows of their own, or write magazine/newspaper columns and/or entertainment websites. So it's okay for the companies to lose money on her projects because for two reasons:
A. Their massive parent companies can swallow those losses. It's not their money, it belongs to their investors who mostly don't have a say in the matter.
B. Those losses are the cost of getting the media-folks to tell the world just how cool the executives spending other people's money on her really are.
Media fame can go really great for a while, with TV/movie deals, big money book deals, and the adoration of the critics and award voters, but it's a double edged sword. When you have that sort of fame, and are subject to fawning coverage almost every day, the audience can get sick of the sight of you without seeing anything you've done, and one of the fundamental truths of the world is that you will eventually run out of other people’s money."
"Their massive parent companies can swallow those losses. It's not their money, it belongs to their investors who mostly don't have a say in the matter."
I'd leave the investors out of it. The money lost on Tina Fey is so small it wouldn't change the EPS by one cent. If your Corporation is big enough, you can throw away tens of millions and it won't effect the stock price one bit.
My guess is that Tina Fey has been doing this to gain attention since she was three years old.
So has every girl, Pogo.
Not every girl can be as perfect and perfectly asexual as connies wish they could be. But then, that sort of mismatch occurs when it comes to everything they believe.
Tina Fey's slightly over-rated for my cup of tea, but she's obviously very talented and interesting. These are obviously non-starters for certain sorts, for reasons that no one can explain.
I'm surprised Lem posted this. Does anyone watch or care about...
Looks like it links back to Reddit, which classifies itself as "the front page of the internet" and caters to a different crowd than the geezers who used to watch Letterman after Johnny.
Mama - LOL. Go to Reddit and type Letterman you'll see most of the topics with him have 0-5 comments. If this is on Reddit, its because of Tina Fey - not Letterman.
The median age of Letterman's audience is 60. He has 2.6 million views vs. 7 million in the early 90s. He and audience are old liberal geezers.
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Half Naked Feminist!
Long way to go for no pay off.
Please put your clothes back on.
I can't unsee that.
If she was better built, I could see a point.
Quit bitchin. It could have been Lena Dunham.
Makes me miss Kirstie Alley, all the more.
I was just about ready to bitch when I read Rebel's thoughtful insight.
Ugh.
No wonder liberals have 0-1 children.
I want my rib back.
I don't like how she throws her arms up in the air - and that is somehow supposed to be entertaining. I don't find her funny at all.
She was hilarous in 30 Rock. I loved that show. Not bad for a working Mom with two kids but I fail to see the point maybe because I never watch Letterman.
A helpful guide to the flavours of fame: Part one - hysteria and the media
2. MEDIA FAME
"...30 Rock was a show about showbiz, and its audience was showbiz. They showered the show and its cast with praise, prizes and enough hullabaloo to make it seem like it was huge. Tina Fey also enjoyed some notoriety for an impression of 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. It had become so big, at least in the media, that Palin often found herself being asked to explain things said by Fey as if they had been said by her.
Fey would often muse aloud if her Palin impression had kept her show from finding a wider audience. Probably not, but it probably didn’t hurt its chances for staying on the air despite its low ratings because of the hyper-partisan nature of American politics, and Hollywood’s revulsion at anything and anyone associated with the Republican Party.
As 30 Rock scraped the bottom of the ratings barrel, Fey also starred in several movies, none of Fey's "successful" starring vehicles cracked the $100 million barrier at the box office, and several bombed horribly. None of that underperformance has slowed her career one bit.
...Because in the eyes of people in the media, it's not about the quantity of the audience, it's about the quality. Few people watch her, but a lot of those who do have TV shows of their own, or write magazine/newspaper columns and/or entertainment websites. So it's okay for the companies to lose money on her projects because for two reasons:
A. Their massive parent companies can swallow those losses. It's not their money, it belongs to their investors who mostly don't have a say in the matter.
B. Those losses are the cost of getting the media-folks to tell the world just how cool the executives spending other people's money on her really are.
Media fame can go really great for a while, with TV/movie deals, big money book deals, and the adoration of the critics and award voters, but it's a double edged sword. When you have that sort of fame, and are subject to fawning coverage almost every day, the audience can get sick of the sight of you without seeing anything you've done, and one of the fundamental truths of the world is that you will eventually run out of other people’s money."
My guess is that Tina Fey has been doing this to gain attention since she was three years old.
"Their massive parent companies can swallow those losses. It's not their money, it belongs to their investors who mostly don't have a say in the matter."
I'd leave the investors out of it. The money lost on Tina Fey is so small it wouldn't change the EPS by one cent. If your Corporation is big enough, you can throw away tens of millions and it won't effect the stock price one bit.
I'm surprised Lem posted this. Does anyone watch or care about Letterman anymore?
The man's been a boring has-been for 10 years - at least.
My guess is that Tina Fey has been doing this to gain attention since she was three years old.
So has every girl, Pogo.
Not every girl can be as perfect and perfectly asexual as connies wish they could be. But then, that sort of mismatch occurs when it comes to everything they believe.
Tina Fey's slightly over-rated for my cup of tea, but she's obviously very talented and interesting. These are obviously non-starters for certain sorts, for reasons that no one can explain.
I'm surprised Lem posted this. Does anyone watch or care about...
Looks like it links back to Reddit, which classifies itself as "the front page of the internet" and caters to a different crowd than the geezers who used to watch Letterman after Johnny.
I could see the gag coming immediately. Letterman is an unfunny, liberal, asshole curmudgeon.
Always good to see you MamaM.
Mama - LOL. Go to Reddit and type Letterman you'll see most of the topics with him have 0-5 comments. If this is on Reddit, its because of Tina Fey - not Letterman.
The median age of Letterman's audience is 60. He has 2.6 million views vs. 7 million in the early 90s. He and audience are old liberal geezers.
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