Tina Fey Acceptance Speech | 2010 Mark Twain Prize

[@FairsleyDifference]

She acknowledges on Letterman’s Netflix show that she felt undeserving at the time and she felt it was basically a political reward, but Lorne told her to take it while her parents were alive. It would make more sense if she got it now after finishing up 30 Rock and creating a dozen other shows and movies, along with her monster hit book and musical.

[@PatriCoop]

FairsleyDifference deep cut! Saw that and loved her even more for it

[@julierogers1155]

Maybe, BUT this way her dad was still alive and THERE to see it!

[@dimitrivelkov]

that's bullshit, she deserved it even then.

[@abdulsamadqureshi5346]

when she won that award she was at the peak. sarah palin impression, mean girls, 30 rock and emmy awards, golden globes. At that time she was everywhere, it was the perfect time for that award.

[@erinbailey257]

Love seeing Tina Fey win earn this award - she’s a champion of women in comedy, always uplifting other people. She wrote beautiful things about her parents in her book.

[@radkej]

Tina Fey is such a great comedy writer/performer!

[@calomega]

Meanwhile, in 2022, her writing and acting for Mean Girls is #2 most watched on Netflix 18 years later. Tina was an icon before she knew it herself.

[@noirjacques3274]

I’m still crying from Tina’s “….because I’m a stone cold b!tch”. 😂🤣😂

[@adityamandhane]

Gonna add a comment actually congratulating this brilliant woman in the middle of all this bs. She is an icon. And has earned this by now. More than.

[@eduardocuellar629]

Responsible for Mean Girls, no one should forget

[@julierogers1155]

YES! MEAN GIRLS!! F-ing brilliant.

[@cartoonraccoon2078]

Wow I just love her. So funny and so beautiful. I have been watching a lot of these lately, and she has been the most entertaining one.

[@macbuff81]

I used to live in the DC area and always loved visiting the Kennedy center. The rooftop is really beautiful Tina Fey looks awesome here. Love the entire ensemble. Cool hairstyle, dress and heels. Very Westworld :)

[@MH55YT]

Tina is my favorite entertainer.

[@lindaguida4074]

She is amazing ❤️

[@ShyamkrishnanNair]

She's one of the greatest ever! 💯❤️

[@PatrickNeal323]

Everyone talking about chappelle needs to realize that he was gone at this time. He was MIA and put his career on hold. Not quite the right time for an award nomination lol

[@abdulsamadqureshi5346]

when she won that award she was at the peak. sarah palin impression, mean girls, 30 rocks and emmy awards, golden globes. At that time she was everywhere it was the perfect time for that award. before this she got best actress, best writer , best entertainer

[@Ryan07_20]

Yea, she seems to mostly stick to writing now with Kimmy Schmidt and mr mayor

[@jamesoller4900]

Intellectual humor.

[@PatriCoop]

james oller the best

[@marylhere]

james oller who is this Hawthorne comedian of which she speaks? Aaaaaaaa

[@user-ov4sl7wf7r]

Don’t cha love her .. she is brilliant

[@yvettejones4249]

She is so freakin funny. I wish she would have accepted this award as SarahPalin.

[@kevinbwillson4161]

One of our Best Loveliest Ladies Ever

[@TK0_23_]

"No matter what happens, we retain our sense of humor" Oh well.

[@MarcosIsABaritone]

Some gay hairstylist lied to her about that updo.

[@keeshiabrie]

She used to have hair that short actually

[@julierogers1155]

Brilliant, classy, and F U N N Y!!!!

[@souphonky]

Lorne offered the Beatles a check to reunite on SNL and they almost did it. I think it was $4k. She's so fast, you can tell a lot of 30 Rock comes right out of her brain.

[@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists]

She is the BEST 💜💋

[@brantub]

so good!!

[@zapfanzapfan]

"Orange Alert", well, that came 6 years later...

[@bridgecross]

"Orange Alert" wow those were the days.

[@renleo2836]

is it just me, or she gets prettier and prettier every year?

[@falllee1887]

she got better looking as she got older

[@ehtisham.1878]

it's just you

[@gheller2261]

I love Tina Fey, but this was way too soon. She was still in her 30s. Incredibly, this prize has not been given to Carol Burnett, the woman whose work inspired that of people like Tina Fey. Perhaps it only goes to comedy writers.

[@rajatdurgapal6454]

1:32 It only took the world 10 years to think that

[@kinglaurac]

i caught that and was thinking the same... awkward.

[@sukritvarshney6896]

Her children would definitely know why their parents were tired all the time.

[@afris6074]

9 years later....🤔

[@juliusdaviesd]

It's weird how her hair kinda looks like Mark Twain's 😁

[@HarshulJain06]

She got a mark twain award before Will Ferrell. Awesome!

[@LolaSunshine3535]

Amber Ruffin needs this award!

[@sg639]

Wanda Sykes or Maya Rudolph would win first. Next generation would be Haddish, Jones, Ruffin, etc., no?

[@johnquigley3671]

Love you Tina

[@TheFXofNewton]

She really pompadored it up.

[@mariyamwaniki]

I wonder why she went with the Frankenstein hair?

[@Krb1986]

👑 of 👑's ♾️

[@ExclusiveLM]

Why is Tina with that Kid and Play hairdo. Anywho. As a famous philosopher (psst, her daughter) once said. ... I want to go there. Tina did go there with that Grace Jones hair cut. Loves ya Tina.

[@ponderingsfromthemothercit8347]

I can't wait to see Mindy Kaling receive an award🤞🏽

[@pravin614]

🙏🙏🙏

[@Axel-ll2jp]

WHEN WILL kristen wiig GET ONE?

[@PatrickNeal323]

Dont get greedy, we have go award more men first

[@davidtuck9084]

Is it too late to change the hair ?

[@raynemichelle2996]

1:33 "Wow, that is actually pretty racist" She didn't have to wait 100 years

[@bradstapleton2041]

Why does she have Christopher Walkin's haircut?

[@jjjpetersen]

Intelligent, funny, classy & soo hot. What a great combination. ❤️

[@nikosnikos1]

Well, the award was created in 1998... one award a year... she won hers in 2010... and at that time now three women so far getting it... seems all right for now without needing too critical a note.

[@julianglickman8956]

What was the getting ideas thing about?

[@letstargaze]

She is actually funny af

[@ronwade5646]

They made Carrol Burnette wait 3 years for this? Yuch!

[@terrycrews1760]

She’s actually funnier than I thought

[@noirjacques3274]

I so love you Tina but, dammit, after listening to this I’m going to need my tear ducts replaced… if that’s surgically possible! ❤😂❤

[@davidmayhew8083]

Isn't she alittle young???

[@NiaDeBose]

She was 40yrs old when she won this award. Born in 1970.

[@rainbowsandlove]

Also, what has age got to do with achievement in your field?!

[@bartstarr6728]

She has some weird obsession with asians. Always writes passive aggressive jokes about them.

[@Sbannmarie]

Boy Tina has great legs!

[@davideaston6944]

Shouldn't people be AT LEAST "middle-aged" before getting an award like this? Wondering... 🤔

[@Zett76]

"because my style is so typically Austrian"... Huh? Can someone explain?

[@Zett76]

@@graceh4670 ...you really think there is a single country on earth, where comedy isn't "a thing"? 😊 I thought it was a reference to something she did or wrote, or maybe her ancestors. Greetings from Austria... 😜

[@Zett76]

@@graceh4670 it's more morbid and sarcastic. :-D Thanks - I simply thought she made a reference, e.g. to an (Austrian) snl character...

[@isk9094]

@@Zett76 nope

[@justgotserious9124]

Austrian humour or Wiener(Viennese) Schmäh is analogous to black humour, it is considered to be subtle, indirect and full of hidden innuendo.

[@Zett76]

@@justgotserious9124 ...am Zentralfriedhof is' Stimmung, wia's sei Lebtoch no net wor Weu olle Tot'n feiern heite seine erscht'n hundert Johr'... 😀 I know. But I'd never thought it's a known thing in the English speaking world.

[@mkechandler5776]

Wait? She won before Jon Stewart? How?

[@SaltyTowers]

ROFL what did you animals do to me?

[@millerforester6237]

I don't you could describe Mark Twain as a smart-aleck insult "comedian".

[@A._2byxr]

He said this and other stuff like this ITS NOT THAT THE WORLD IS FULL OF IDIOTS BUT LIGHTENING ISN'T DISTRIBUTED PROPERLY

[@TheSighphiguy]

i love Tina...but shes was too young to deserve this award yet. maybe she does NOW...but not then. i mean,...in 2010 she ONLY had an 11 year body of work. and Kevin Hard WAY doesnt deserve it.

[@M7MD-80]

why are they giving this award to anyone !! now it has no value

[@hadihassan372]

She got one before Chappel !?

[@KvnDWr]

I'm one of the biggest Chappelle fans on the planet and don't think this is that unusual. Fey was prominent before Chappelle on SNL and 30 Rock (which she created and starred in) was a powerhouse in terms of critical acclaim winning 3 straight Emmy's for best show. Chappelle at this point only had 3-4 years at the top and had disappeared. So I can understand her getting one before him. What I CAN'T understand is her and Will Ferrell getting one before EDDIE fucking MURPHY! That makes absolutely no sense. Eddie was literally the biggest comedian in US history in his prime (in terms of dominating standup, TV and the box office).

[@Uziavenger]

Yes

[@ededdneddy988]

To be fair, Chappelle got one before Chris Rock. Which imo is crazy. Chris Rock hasnt got one yet he has done far more for comedy than Chappelle

[@PatrickNeal323]

Chapelle was gone dude. Youre not going to award someone who said fuck show biz and moves to africa. Kind of a difficult time lol.

[@brettpettinger9200]

Not going to refute that she is very funny, but the timing of her receiving this award was just absolutely wrong. Welcome to the woke, afraid to offend, kiss the ass of every gender and race generation. This award should've gone to a ton of other people in 2010.

[@jasonbalisi7377]

No offense to Tina, but I could never understand how she received this award before Dave Chappelle did. It just blows my mind.

[@judekristo]

Jason Balisi I literally clicked on this video to comment this... and I rarely comment but, my thoughts exactly

[@gregdambrosi4528]

Who cares. He got one. Theres many deserving that havent yet.

[@RecklessFables]

Yeah, it is weird. Seinfeld too.

[@analopes312]

@Milestonecomics shut up. Tina's humor is nothing like Chapelle's humor.

[@PatrickNeal323]

Chappelle was gone during this time. You cant award someone who put their career on hold.

[@iamjaysaul1169]

How in the hell ? Of everyone that received a Mark Twain award, it is in my opinion that Tina fey is the most underserving person to ever receive this award.. she got one before Chappelle which is odd but look who got one before her since 2005.. this actually does not make any sense, ive never laughed at one joke she’s made, too hacky

[@KvnDWr]

Naw man... she was the #1 star and writer on SNL during her run and created/starred in 30 Rock, which has mopped up a ton of awards. The award is not just about standup prowess... it's about overall contributions to comedy. She's not underserving... but probably shouldn't have gotten the award before Eddie Murphy

[@gregdambrosi4528]

Wah wah boo hoo

[@PatrickNeal323]

Chappelle quit show biz during this time. Stop talking about chappelle. Do people only know the mark twain prize because of chappelle? Grow up.

[@fppro1679]

Is it just me or do they only give liberals this award? No one deserves it more than Ron White.

[@millerforester6237]

I would pick Foxworthy above most of these insult comedians.

[@fppro1679]

@Alexandra Grace IDKman depends if liberals are guilty as charged or not. So far it's running about 99 versus 1.

[@shawny2scrawny]

Ron White IS the one of that bunch who actually understands timing. The rest of them are minor leagues. High school ball vs the Pros.

[@mattym8]

Who is Ron White?

[@fppro1679]

@@mattym8 I would suggest to get on KZbin and look it up.

[@drdavidtee]

one of the least funniest people around

[@bigdaddybhavyaa]

Is that what you're known as?

[@gunbutter830]

Talk about a one hit wonder. If it weren't for Sarah Palin she'd be a nobody so she should have spent some time thanking her.

[@slappypap2700]

What the hell are you talking about? This woman is brilliant, maybe take a second and Google her. Where is Sarah Palin now?

[@gunbutter830]

Slappypap? Palin was instrumental in getting Trump elected so I guess she got her revenge.

[@slappypap2700]

@@gunbutter830 that's sums it up doesn't it? You think some Americans need revenge exacted on them? I bet you think trump won in some wonderful landslide. Maybe look at the results in 08 and 12. Most of America rejected her ideas and policies. You, my friend, are the minority and a bad American if you get an erection when it comes to " getting revenge" on fellow Americans

[@gunbutter830]

Slappypap? No revenge from me my friend. Trump is doing all American a good service so there has been no revenge enacted. Palin was drug through the mud by the media and Tina Fey became "relevant" to the media elite because they believed Tina destroyed her. Sadly, for them, Palin led a republican take over of the House and Senate. She encouraged Trump to run and endorsed him early. America is doing quite well right now. Your welcome very much.

[@slappypap2700]

@@gunbutter830 Palin is just like trump as in how thin their skin is and for how well they divide this nation.