Pregnant pause
I was talking the other day to a friend about the movie Baby Mama. The conversation went something like this:
Me: So, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have a new movie coming out.
Her: Oh, I heard about that. I wonder if it’ll be any good?
Me: I’m sorry. Did you hear what I said? Tina FEY and Amy POEHLER have a new movie coming out.
Her: Yeah, I heard. I said, I wonder if it’ll be any good.
Me: LISTEN TO YOURSELF. Have we met?
You see, the tendency around CHHQ is to lose the thread of the conversation somewhere after “Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.” Rule #4 of the CHHQ Constitution states clearly, and I quote, that “all movies written by and/or starring Tina Fey must be of higher-than-average quality and may, in fact, be cultural touchstones for girl nerds everywhere.” Combined with statute 7c of the same document (”Amy Poehler is like our crazy, not-right, bottle-blonde cousin, and we love her, so there”), things are looking up for Baby Mama, as far as Cinema Hype is concerned, sight unseen. Also, John Hodgman! He makes us giggle just by showing up. Wait ’til he actually has lines!
Except for one detail: neither Fey nor Poehler wrote Baby Mama. That honor goes to one Michael McCullers, the pen behind Undercover Brother and Austin Powers in Goldmember; he also wrote for SNL a decade ago. This all, frankly, gives us pause. We want to believe that anything starring Fey and Poehler must be sprinkled with the dust of smart, funny fairies. Still: Undercover Brother.
Judge for yourselves, CH readers.
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