skippy the bush kangaroo: i'm not an actor, but i play one on tv

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

i'm not an actor, but i play one on tv

steve m., over @ no more mister nice blog, has to point out to the hardly-ever-right wing that there's a difference between the actor and the character they play:

let me summarize. (tina) fey and (sarah) palin are extremely "dissimilar" because fey built a career while she was married and a mother -- just like palin. palin "comes from the i-can-do-it-all school" -- which makes fey "dissimilar" to her even though fey has been a successful actress and writer in tv and movies (and, by the way, has her own multi-million-dollar book coming out). fey, arguably, has "it all" -- and palin, who clearly wants something out of life that's currently beyond her grasp, doesn't. but fey's the one who's unfulfilled -- because the characters she plays are unfulfilled.

oh, and did i mention that fey didn't create the sarah palin character, but was asked to play it -- remember, she wasn't on saturday night live anymore -- and was not the writer of the palin sketches? so how is a characterization crafted for her by another writer a sign of her anger and bitterness?

hey, i've got it -- maybe it's liz lemon who's jealous of palin! maybe fictional characters are real! maybe poor, lovelorn liz secretly resents palin, and created her own creator, tina fey, in order to get back at palin. (yikes, this is starting to sound like a borges story.)

or maybe matthew continetti is just a fool.

we vote for that last one.

posted by skippy at 12:22 PM |