Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: the best friends we want to have
As a spastic person who has always considered Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Elaine to be her hero and role model, I'm so glad there are women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. They're smart, they're quick, they get the joke, and perhaps most importantly, they don't shy away from a topic because it's considered shocking or un-PC. In their new film, Baby Mama, Tina Fey plays a woman who put her career first and now desperately wants a baby.
Enter Amy, a trashy, no-boundaries party animal who get knocked up with
Tina's egg and has no choice but to move in with the mom-to-be. From her horrific karaoke-ing, to her freaky, deer-in-headlights faces when Tina catches her misbehaving, it's refreshing to see a woman make herself so physically and emotionally vulnerable. Likewise, Tina plays a successful yet lovable awkward lady who blunders her way through dates and sets herself up to be humiliated in a horrendously tacky outfit when hitting the club scene.
When Tina is hooking uber-talented Amy up with roles in projects like Baby Mama or Mean Girls, we know it's with that best friends kind of love. When she's not scared to dis Madonna for being full of herself on SNL's "Weekend Update" we wanna give her a high-five. And every time Amy puts her all into characters from Hillary Clinton to the one-legged, farting reality show contestant we cry with laughter and wish there were a way to give her props. So here you go ladies: we only wish you knew us so you could know we're as cool as you are.
