On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: Fallon's First Show > From: "Kevin M." <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, March 05, 2009 1:56 pm > To: [email protected] > > >> Seriously? You consider "Mean Girls" to be Tina Fey's "big > breakthrough"? > >> You'd never heard of the woman before she rode Lindsay Lohan's coattails > >> to fame? :) > > > > I didn't post this initially, but I'd concur with it. "Mean Girls" was > the > > only thing Fey's ever done that I liked, and it is one of the last times > > film captured Lindsey Lohan before she completely skanked out. > > *shrug* I won't argue the point too much, other than to say I just held > a quick poll among ten co-workers sitting near me. Age range heavily > weighted toward the early/mid-20s, up to a couple of folks in their > early 40s (since I excluded my late-40s demographic), and simply asked > "where did you know Tina Fey from, before '30 Rock'?" The most popular > answer (10 out of 10, to be exact) was "Weekend Update, on Saturday > Night Live." Not a single mention of co-starring with Lindsay Lohan.
Sure, and I'm certain any sampling I took would get the same results. But if you were able to determine approximately WHEN they first took notice of Fey's work, I believe it was post-Mean Girls. It was at that point in her career when people saw her as more than just another unfunny SNL cast member, and started to take an interest in the work she was doing on SNL (including Weekend Update). -- Kevin M. (RPCV) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
