“Couldn’t give it away.  That’s just good, Christian values, or, being homely.”

Tina Fey on last night’s Letterman, explaining that she couldn’t get anyone to have sex with her until she was 24 years old.

Today Forbes released their list of the highest paid women in primetime and I’m sure that more than one of the names will completely shock you. Tyra Banks took first place with her America’s Next Top Model hosting gig (making over $30 million in a twelve month period), and was followed by the Snow Princess herself, Katherine Heigl, whose earnings will also shock you. The complete list is here:

1. Tyra Banks: $30 million
2. Katherine Heigl: $18 million
3. Marg Helgenberger: $9.5 million
4. Eva Longoria: $9 million
5. Mariska Hargitay: $8.5 million
6. Julia Louis-Dreyfus: $8 million
7. Maura Tierney: $8 million
8. Tina Fey: $7 million
9. Marcia Cross: $6.2 million
10. Jennifer Love Hewitt & Ellen Pompeo (tie): $6 million

For the most part these ranking make sense, except for Tina Fey’s #8 spot, as she also writes and produces her hit show 30 Rock. Also, Jennifer Love Hewitt can still rack in 6 million a season for a TV show? Who knew? Do people still care about her? I was unaware. I’m also a bit surprised that a Seinfeld alum like JLD isn’t worth more than Heigl, who beside being a complete brat on and off the set of Grey’s, only makes crappy romantic comedies these days.

“We’re gonna take it week by week. If she wins, I’m done. I can’t do that for four years. And by ‘I’m done,’ I mean I’m leaving Earth.”

Tina Fey, on her doppelganger and current meal-ticket, Sarah Palin.

Can Tina Fey play Sarah Palin on this show too? Please?

Tina rocks it again on last night’s SNL in a parody of the Katie Couric interview.

Tina Fey’s SNL spoof of Sarah Palin was NBC.com’s most-watched viral video ever, scoring nearly five times as many views as second-place finisher, Justin Timberlake’s “Dick in a Box.”

This is partly due to NBC’s hardcore efforts to keep the video off of YouTube, which they didn’t do with “Dick,” but still …

Oh, Tina. Please do this every week. Make SNL watchable again.

Tina Fey is back on SNL … as Sarah Palin.

OMG.

Can’t stop laughing.

Genius, genius.

Thanks Rebecca!

“I was pregnant at the time and probably a little moody, but I remember thinking, ‘She’s a disaster! I gotta prop this lady up and get her on TV. [She was] disastrous … in the way she generally appears to be.”

Tina Fey talks to Playboy about trainwreck Paula Abdul’s 2005 hosting gig on SNL.

After StupidThoughtlessLittlePigGate and splitting from his agency (and then crawling back), Alec Baldwin stated on The View that he would not be returning to his hit show (and the thing keeping Aaron Sorkin up at night since he quit smoking crack), 30 Rock. “If I never acted again, I couldn’t care less,” he said.

Baldwin’s 30 Rock contract pretty much assured he’d be coming back, but Tina Fey said in a recent interview that if he comes back, it will be because he wants to.

“I was on vacation so I didn’t actually see him on ‘The View,’” Fey said. “It was my one week of vacation this year, and that went down. I figured, I’m going to let all the talking happen and see what the actual action is, and the action is, he’s going to be at work. No one’s going to make him do it under duress.”

When asked about Baldwin’s famous temper, Fey responded that “thankfully, my relationship with him is solely professional and I have not had to deal with that at all.”

Here’s a nice small interview with Tina Fey from 30 Rock and Jenna Fischer from The Office. They both seem to be that rare example of smart, funny, attractive gals (just like our own EvilB and EvilT).

Some of the better quotes: (On losing in the ratings)

Tina Fey: Now we’re just going to get our asses handed to us by Grey’s Anatomy. But that’s classier, I think. It’s like getting dumped by a really handsome guy.

and

TV Guide: You appeared on People magazine’s Most Beautiful list this year.
Jenna: I was 32nd most beautiful. I counted.
Tina: Wow. In the world?
Jenna: The whole planet.

Fun stuff, and both shows are worth watching so long as you are rocking the dual tuner TiVo.

Editor’s Note: Expect some slow news days coming up, so we may end up talking about what I should get people for Christmas around here.