Fire them both and give their jobs (and severed heads) to Victoria Jackson!

rabbitboy

There must be something personal between Tina and Jon, otherwise this just sounds too catty. I love 'em both.

DianneRR

I love Tina Fey and I love The Daily Show. Why can't they play nice with each other? Why?

Maybe we need to chain Tina and Jon together until they work out a compromise.

(Hold on, I think that's a chapter in Sarah Vowell's erotica compendium.)

nick_r

@SuperUnison: Come on now. Nobody puts 30 Rock in the corner.

heidiho

@metroville: Good point. The funny thing is she could have just let it go and nobody would have cared in a month. It isn't like Trey Parker and Matt Stones' somewhat Paultardian view of politics makes any of us (that I've ever met) hate them.

@Victor Ward: I skipped the Oscars because spending four hours watching Hollywood congratulate itself for making something other than "27 Fashionable Transformers Hasslle Ben Stiller" seemed like too much to bear.

SuperUnison

Cue the inevitable "it was taken entirely out of context" excuse.

SteamyMcFirecrotch

It took approximately one Reader's Digest excerpt for everyone to turn on the otherwise lauded Fey and her 30 Rock vehicle. Not that I give a shit one way or the other. Anytime politics gets injected into - well, anything, this is the kind of reaction one can expect.

Just sayin'.

bitfactory

There are very often "clappers" on 'The Daily Show' (and they can be somewhat discomfiting to behold), but let's call a spade a spade, here:

Tina's being an apologist for her unabashedly pro-Hillary routine during her guest appearance on 'SNL' a number of weeks ago. Tracy Morgan got far more laughs with his subsequent unofficial counterpoint ("Bitch might be the new black, but black is the new president, bitch"), so now Fey's couching her comparative failure as a bold refusal not to pander to the crowd.

metroville

Since when has Weekend Update actually been relevant outside of Fey and Morgan's arguments about Obama and Clinton?
Yeah, Stewart makes people feel so uncomfortable that he's the primary news source for Americans under 30, never mind that he and Colbert put Weekend Update to shame which is probably what annoys her.
The main difference between Jon Stewart and Tina Fey is that Jon Stewart has guts and doesn't pander to anyone.

judithvansteppes

OH SNAP!!!
Colbert wouldn't let her get away with that

NoGrumpys

@SuperUnison: Because of his Oscar monologue.

Victor Ward

Her mouth has officially gotten as big as her ego. C'mon Stewart...let's see you do something here.

Shumina

So Daily Show is consistently funny and occaisionally great. Meanwhile Weekend Update blows, "Mean Girls" was only tolerable when I saw it cause I was blackout drunk on a fucking airplane, and from what I've seen of "30 Rock" it feels like "Arrested Development" watered down with a potent mix of self-loathing and Diet Pepsi. How is Jon Stewart, then, the bad guy for eliciting laughter with a tinge of political agreement?

SuperUnison

Maybe Mrs. Hartmann should have capped Tina's ass. It would be sad, but at least SNL would have stayed funny.

OreGONE

Um Tina. That's because the Daily Show manages to be informative, incisive AND funny. Weekend Update just tries to be funny, and usually doesn't even succeed.

Sweet Panda Love

Woah. Fey is dissin' Stewart in Reader's Digest, a dying magazine with a 1000-year history of sucking Republican dick? (Editorially speaking, of course.) Even my Republican father finally noticed that they never run negative stories about conservatives. Tina, Tina, WTF????

clarknhilldale

@metroville: There's no way Tracy Morgan "got more laughs" with his "Black is the new president" routine. It bombed, was neither particularly funny nor particularly sincere, and is not something Obama's gonna rush to embrace. A well spoken, biting endorsement from a famous female comedian with her own prime time show? Great. A snarky, semi-uncomfortable shout out from a comedian known for racking up DUI's, wearing an alcohol detection anklet, and being generally incoherent and/or crazy? Not worth much, I'm 'fraid.

procrastinator, esq.

I have a feeling this is all going to end with an "I'm fucking Anderson Cooper" video...

Little Mintz Sunshine

@bess marvin, girl detective: Not at all. This seems like a joke taken completely out of context.

BeAgrestic

@procrastinator, esq.: but it was still funnier. and that's all that is important.

with that said, i have an inkling that tina was just joking here. or am i way off base?

bess marvin, girl detective

Whoa whoa whoa whoa...

Easy what we say here, kids. This type of in-party-celebrity-satirist-Hollywood fighting is exactly why McCain can take sit back and watch the Democrats run themselves into the ground.

NO ONE wants four years of "tiger cage" monologues.

TheStarterWife

@metroville: Thumbs up for you, that's exactly what's going on here. I love Fey... but she's politicking in exactly the way that makes one seem bitter, ungracious, and un-funny (and wrong, when they stick with their losing horse to the end.)

Sleepyhead

@Little Mintz Sunshine:

Snap! Made me spit out my beer!

DianneRR

Team Stewart

junkie

HOLY SHIT READ THE WHOLE THING

Det. Philangie

She's as deluded as her preferred candidate - "but I'm supposed to be funnier!!!"

D.B. Cooper-Nichol

Why can't she be more like Liz Lemon and damage herself instead of others??

CrankYank

@procrastinator, esq.: Tracy pretty-much killed his hilarious editorial throughout and his delivery, near the top of his talents... Tina's return to weekend Update (i love you tina) would've benefited had it been read by Liz Lemon.

That being said, this is clearly a minor dig said to be a joke to the reporter and yall are jumping all over her b/c she's a Hillaryhead or whatever you call those people... Which is fine, if that's your thing I guess...

jackvinyl

@Superawesomerad: And I'm REALLY not seeing how this has anything to do with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Holy shit, you guys. I thought you were a little more rational that that.

Superawesomerad

I'm not seeing where she says TDS isn't funny, or that she's funnier than Jon Stewart, or whatever other bullshit you're projecting onto this story. Come on guys, I know you love Stewart and all, and I like him too, but you can't really deny that his show has a hell of a lot of "approval applause".

Although any regular watchers of "Real Time With Bill Maher" know that TDS is far from the worst offender in this regard.

Superawesomerad

Is it legal to read Reader's Digest when you aren't in the bathroom?

cassius

You are witnessing the beginning of the "Hate Hillary and all Opinionated, Smart, Threatening to our Manhood, Career Bitches Like Her" Backlash.

Interesting, considering that Howard Stern is a Clinton supporter.

(Just kidding. Love Howard - he's the biggest woman out there.)

TheStarterWife

Yes, Superawesomerad, indeed.
Wow. Pay close attention, incredibly savvy Defamer posters. You are witnessing the beginning of the "Hate Hillary and all Opinionated, Smart, Threatening to our Manhood, Career Bitches Like Her" Backlash.
You posters who are hatin' know who you are. And so do we.
Oh, and Tracy Morgan has it right.
Women are the new Black.
But not in the good way.
Just watch any nutsack commentator on MSNBC.
Time to lock up your brains, sisters.
(www.Mediagate2008.com)

KittyCarlisle

I wonder if Victoria is still with her cop?

Magister

This is all just a UVA/William & Mary pissing contest.

Storming the Floor

Tracy had good delivery towards the end. "If Hillary's last name wasn't Clinton, she'd be just another crazy woman. And believe me, I don't want to call that kind of woman at 3 in the mooonin'"@jackvinyl:

rudeboy7969

@cassius: No, it is not legal. In fact, that's where I originally read this article. That being said, I didn't really see this as a crack on Jon Stewart; I actually saw it as commiserating with him for the tough sell that political jokes can be sometimes.

susiefaye

As Tracy would say, if Tina Fey wasn't Tina Fey, she'd be just another crazy woman who doesn't like Jon Stewart@metroville:

rudeboy7969

I know Tina Fey considers her work to be the most important since Descartes "Meditations" but, if she could kindly go away, you know, NOW!, that'd be great.

PickleTitsTurner

I thought we were just snarking on Tina Fey, not making grand political statements. Don't go Wonkette on me Defamer!! Continue to be my shallow oasis in my otherwise newshoundy life.

BTW, with Readers Digest's and that wacked Parade cover on bike, Fey be rushing the middlebrow.

CrankYank

I blame the scientologists.

SanFranBetsu

@D.B. Cooper-Nichol: Yeah, sounds that way to me too.

Crazydogggz

I like 30 Rock a lot, but I gotta say The Daily Show's Larry Wilmore kicks Tracy Jordan's black stereotype ass.

Crazydogggz

Anyone who worked 9 years at SNL understands every version of the cheap, easy and predictable audience reaction game. She should not throw stones.

DrFeelgood