Tina Fey Talks Funny Women

Tina Fey recently sat down for an interview with Town & Country magazine, where she had this to say:

"Amy [Poehler] and I just did two months of press for Sisters and journalists were still bringing up, 'People say women aren't funny.' The next time I'm at a press junket and someone says that, I have to remember to say, 'We need to stop talking about whether women are funny. And we need to acknowledge that black people are funnier than white people. Let's discuss that.' Every single interviewer asked, 'Isn't this an amazing time for women in comedy?' People really wanted us to be openly grateful—'Thank you so much!'—and we were like, 'No, it's a terrible time. If you were to really look at it, the boys are still getting more money for a lot of garbage, while the ladies are hustling and doing amazing work for less.'"

And on aging in Hollywood:

"The greatest challenge for me as an actress is just getting older. Trying to play the scene at hand while also trying to hold your face up. Fast-forward to being 68, and it's a glorious act of bravery. There were people on the Globes in their twenties who were so Botoxed. In their twenties! We've been so conditioned now to never see a real human face, one that moves, with its original teeth. Sometimes we forget that there is a choice. I choose not to do this. It's like wearing multiple pairs of Spanx: Good for you, not for me. Not mandatory. I was looking at Jane Fonda last night. And you know why she always looks great? Because there was never a point where you say, 'Hey, remember those two years when Fonda got fat?' It never happened. You just have to keep that baseline. That goddamn baseline."