Also why is no one rating this?

Eating pineapple

"Tiny's scar?" I nominate myself for typo of the day.

I enjoyed "Bossypants" very much and would recommend it.

Bort, may I please borrow your time machine?

BORT'S TIME MACHINE IS FUCKING AWESOME

(PS she's kind of a bitch about it)

Yeah I also thought that she presents her stance as if it's the only logical stance to have about this kind of thing, when in fact I know several people with visible scars or physical handicaps that have told me they'd rather people asked than have them do that that pathetic thing where everyone is trying to pretend it's not there but it is obviously on their mind.

Also, ***** for Ursa. "Keloid wasteland"

All she says is that people who have asked about her scar in the past have usually *ended up* being egotistical assholes. Which makes sense because people that would point out something on someone else's body that is potentially a source of deep trauma or self-consciousness without having the sensitivity and respect to wait for that person to bring it up herself or respecting her choice to not talk about it is something that an asshole would do.

Also, your rambling textual opera of offended misogyny is revealing a lot more about you than it is criticising Fey for having the audacity of preferring not to discuss the traumatic source of her facial scar.

Hey Jane, how'd you get that scar?

Oh, Jesus Christ. EVERYTHING about any person is "potentially" a source of deep trauma. I have a pretty noticable scar between my upper lip and my nose, and when people ask about it, I tell them the story (riding my bike in the rain as a kid, the wheels jackknifed and I fell on the side of the handlebars, which the grips had slid inward on). It's been obvious to me that people who ask are just curious. In Tina's case, she has some baggage associated with it and it has led to this wild psychoanalysis. You guys are just buying it.

Slow, muffled golf clap for Ursa.

Yeah, this person who has a highly visible reminder of a traumatic childhood event right on their fucking face is really kinda overreacting about spending their entire life being reminded of it constantly by people who give no fuck about anything but their own curiosity. WHAT A MAROON!

TINA FEY I WAS JUST MAKING CONVERSATION WHY WON'T YOU FUCK MEEEEE

Jane, I know. That was the joke. Baggage, overreaction, projection and stuff.

Nevermind.

If I may just briefly change the subject, I'd just like to mention in passing how much I loathe condescending faggots who pontificate about "what passes for X in this country." Don't like "30 Rock", do we, Stanley? What are we, a Fawlty Towers fan? Oh, how you must suffer, living among what us inferiors think is funny!

I want to defend Tina Faye here, but I don't know if I should. I don't want to come across like I'm emotionally invested in this clip that I submitted, but I do feel like I understand it better than some people in here, if only because I listened to this about six - seven times while I was preparing the clip. Let me make a few points as quickly as possible.

1. Is she not being cool? Can anyone think of a cooler stance on this than not wanting to talk about it. I didn't hear any blustering or self pity.

2. She may very well have baggage, around this. Why wouldn't she? I don't feel like I've fallen for it (that is, I'm not assuming that she can be completely objective about this) but I do respect it. It's not an objective accounting of the motives of everyone who has crossed her path. It's her experience, and as her experience, it's valid.

3. If you listen carefully, she gives a nod to the empathy of those who wait to get to know her and let the subject come up naturally, but then, being a humorist, she goes into much greater detail in making biting observations of those who bring up the subject in a forced and self-serving way. She may be misjudging some of these people, but I doubt that she's misjudging ALL of them.

4. More than anything else, the passage seems to be designed to discourage questions from the celebrity press. Can't blame her for that.

5. Somewhere in the world there may well be a 68 year old mental patient who has been taking his meds and hasn't hurt anyone else over the past 35 years, and she may be wary of leading the public in his direction.

Do you talk to people in real life in this pointlessly rambling fashion, or do you just save it for us?

John, calm down, most of us here really like Tina Fey. She's brilliant and funny and wrote Mean Girls.

Ursa's diatribe was still hilarious and well written.

See, that's exactly what I meant. I'm perfectly calm, and I knew that if I responded in the way that I wanted to, I would seem more emotionally invested than I am. What I have invested is a lot of time getting to know this passage initimately, and what I strongly feel is that a lot of you are wrong, and that left me with a lot to argue with.

The only person I was really annoyed at in the thread was StanleyPain, for reasons that had more with him being a condescending douche than Tina Faye any one topic.

Hooker. you're not paying attention. I responded to several different people, point by point, in one post. There's nothing rambling about that.

Slowly rises to feet and joins in on the slow clap.

It's called manners. People with manners don't ask strangers about their deformities. It's fucking rude.

five for UM.

Yeah, it's true. Tina Faye is really weird and touchy about the time when she was five years old, and a maniac randomly attacked her with a knife, and she thought she was going to die. Strange, isn't it? If only there was some way to get the bottom of this mystery.

Goddamn Ursa. You got that screed outta something weird inside you not the video. Might wanna get that checked out.

This was supposed to be lower down on the page.

She is quite hot... in a "not out of my league" kind of way that makes her seem much more appealing.

Did anybody happen to see "Baby Momma"? Not a great movie, but it impressed me to see that she had the looks and the appeal to seem right at home as the female lead in that kind of romantic comedy. You could have dropped Jennifer Anniston into that role and it would have seemed perfectly normal, no stretch at all.

I was never curious about the scar, but when I happened to learn how the scar was created, it made me far more curious about the woman. Does it seem more visible to her than to everyone else? If she feels like the scar earned her unwarranted attention, perhaps that's why she doesn't like to talk about it? Is she afraid that if the scar gets a lot of public attention, it will bring her attacker back to her, in one way or another? It does raise a lot of perfectly fascinating questions that people who are fascinated by people would be legitimately fascinated by, even though she has a perfectly legitimate right to not answer.

That's cool. I'm not going to disagree with what you're saying because your points are valid. It's just that to me, celebrities might as well be aliens living on some far flung planet, or lost to the currents of time. I'm hardly aware they exist at all.

Beautiful and appealing people are (to use an overexploited term) ubiquitous. I guess celebrities seem artificially familiar to us and from there grows some kind of one-sided imaginary opinions about them. I don't know how it works with regular people; I'm just guessing.

It's not the case with me. I just see them as part of a machine designed to sell products. Salespeople. I know life is hard and people need something to take the edge off sometimes. I don't blame anyone for that.

People go through far worse than she did and they can be really cool about it. I've had prominent scars for years and I had to deal with curiousity and some ridicule, sure, but people are just people. I've known kids who got way more fucked up than I did, like this kid who got his toes run over and squished by a car, and he had to learn to walk all over again. Or some little girl and her brother who had horrible burn scars and had to keep telling people about the night their house burned down. I remember, when I was in the hospital, thinking I had it bad, when I saw some little girl holding a bloody hankerchief pressed against the back of her head, waiting in line, and she was only 6 years old. I asked her what happened and she said someone had thrown a brick at her. I could keep going on but you get the idea.

Sometimes when people seem concerned, they really are. After one of my accidents, I had a lot of people ask who beat me up, and offered to find them and teach them a lesson. They were dead serious and they didn't even know me. Maybe Tina Fey's jaded as hell and doesn't think human beings are capable of empathy, but they totally are. Maybe working in show business skews your world view and makes you think everyone has an ulterior motive, but people are diverse and will surprise you sometimes.

She's really short. Tiny in fact.
But very nice, and very funny.

I didn't notice it right away on Weekend Update because I was too busy staring at her horrible delivery and shitty jokes leading her into a successful career.

yeah but how could any of us know what's going to happen in the far flung futuristic tomorrowland of 2010?

Reading the comments again a year later, it strikes me as interesting that we're all talking about the scar, which is pretty ordinary, and not so much about a random person slashing a random five year old's face, which is deeply strange and traumatic. This applys to myself, and to Tina Faye, and everybody else. Later in the book, she talks about asking her father if she was going to die. This is not everyday celebrity stuff or everyday person stuff, and I don'r know how she could refer to it or not refer to it and not have it be somehow pointed or odd or mysterious or exhibitionist or something.

dont fight it, just let the glorious weirdness of the comments wash over you

yeah, five stars for creepy

five stars

There are not enough stars.

The video was interesting, but here's five more for the comments.