Fey 'More Palin Than Palin'

Fox News chief also explains why Glenn Beck is off the network

(NEWSER) - Roger Ailes is probably the last guy Anthony Weiner expected to rally to his defense. But in a new interview the Fox News chief does just that. “The media’s had enough giggles over Mr. Weiner and his name,” Ailes told Howard Kurtz of the Daily Beast . “Sometimes the families take a bigger hit than the person that people are trying to destroy.” Ailes had good things to say about another Democrat, too: “I’d like to hire Hillary Clinton. She looks unhappy at the State Department. She’d get ratings.” More»

Boss uses wrong shot in story about possible run for presidency

(NEWSER) - How good is Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin? So good it even fooled Palin employer Fox News. Fox posted a photo of Tina Fey posing as Sarah Palin last week while reporting that Palin says she's still "50/50" about running for president, reports Sheya . Maybe Fox meant that Tina Fey is torn about running. Two years ago after Fox goofed by using old Palin campaign footage to represent a book tour , Fox officials sent out a memo to employees declaring that on-screen errors would no longer be tolerated . Guess not. (In other Palin news, she says she "didn't mess up about Paul Revere." ) More»

She hosts Saturday Night Live, returns to form

(NEWSER) - Tina Fey returned to both Saturday Night Live and a familiar character last night. Her Sarah Palin persona made another appearance during a debate skit with other GOP candidates, including The Donald, notes Entertainment Weekly . “It’s just so great to be back on Fox News, a network that both pays me and shows me the questions ahead of time,” Fey said as Palin. “I just hope that tonight the lamestream media won’t twist my words by repeating them verbatim.” PopEater also loves the pregnant Fey's sketch with Maya Rudolph about a "horrifying birth class." Click to see that one . More»

'SNL' was a 'misogynistic environment,' she tells Oprah

(NEWSER) - You hear a lot of nostalgic reminiscing about John Belushi and how funny he was , but not from Jane Curtin. Yesterday on Oprah she recalled the "misogynistic environment" of Saturday Night Live in the 1970s, noting that Belushi was particularly to blame. "[John] said, 'Women are just fundamentally not funny,'" she recalled. "You'd go to a table read, and if a woman writer had written a piece for John, he would not read it in his full voice. He would whisper it. He felt as though it was his duty to sabotage pieces that were written by women." New York magazine has video. More»

SNL impersonation may have hurt 30 Rock ratings, Fey writes

(NEWSER) - Tina Fey's new memoir Bossypants deals with stardom, sexism, and, to nobody's surprise, Sarah Palin. ABC breaks out a few nuggets from the new release:

• "Some may argue that exploiting Governor Palin and her family helped bring attention to my low-rated TV show," Fey writes of 30 Rock. "I am proud to say you are wrong," she writes. "My TV show still enjoys very low ratings. In fact, I think the Palin stuff may have hurt the TV show. Let's face it, between Alec Baldwin and me there is a certain 50% of the population who think we are pinko Commie monsters."