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Since [Tina Fey] became a head writer [for Saturday Night Live] the words "whore" and "bitch" have flourished on the show. (After the invasion of Afghanistan, she announced on "Weekend Update," "For the first time in more than two years, women took off their veils and walked freely in the streets. Those whores.") Jokes have also become more graphic. "My mom had me when she was forty," Fey said in a personal aside one night on "Update." "This was back in the seventies, when the only ‘fertility aid’ was Harvey’s Bristol Cream. So waiting is just a risk that I’m gonna have to take. And I don’t think I could do fertility drugs, because to me, six half-pound translucent babies is not a miracle -- it’s gross." On another show she told the audience, "Female inmates in the United States have been victims of sexual misconduct by corrections employees in every state except Minesota. So, ladies, if you wanna rob a bank but you don’t want your cooter poked, head to beautiful Minnesota, land of ten thousand lakes." … Her anxiety has shaped her work. On a show in 2001, Fey said, "On Monday, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a terrorism warning, asking all Americans to be on high alert this week…I think I speak for all Americans when I say, ‘Bitch, I can’t be any more alert than I already am, O.K.?’ I’m opening my mail with salad tongs. I take my passport in the shower with me."
-- Virginia Heffernan, profiling Tina Fey in the New
Yorker, November 3, 2003
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