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Tina Fey Plays 'Fey on Gay' with Bravo's Andy Cohen at GLAAD Awards

Tina Fey Plays 'Fey on Gay' with Bravo's Andy Cohen at GLAAD Awards

The 25th annual GLAAD Media Awards were held in New York Saturday, and GLAAD winner Tina Fey was on hand to lighten things up with a quick game of "Fey on Gay," with the evening's host, Bravo's Andy Cohen. Tina Fey answers questions about why lesbians make good talk show hosts and who she'd go gay for on TV.

The 25th annual GLAAD Media Awards were held in New York Saturday, and GLAAD winner Tina Fey was on hand to lighten things up with a quick game of "Fey on Gay," with the evening's host, Bravo's Andy Cohen.

Cohen quizzed Fey with a gay and lesbian pop culture trivia test of sorts. Here are a few of the questions he asked the 30 Rock scribe and star. 

On lesbians as talk shows...

Cohen: Rosie O’Donnell, Ellen, Wanda Sykes, Sarah Gilbert, Dinah Shore — why are lesbians so good at hosting talk shows?
Fey: First of all, Dinah Shore is new information to me.

I always assumed. I assumed.
Um, so why are lesbians? I would say because lesbians living in the United States, they’re very good at pretending to be interested in the boring stories that straight people tell about their dates and families.

On which famous female TV duos may have kissed...

All right. Which TV couple, Tina Fey, do you imagine must have gotten to first base at some point: (a) Kate & Allie; (b) Jane Hathaway and Granny Clampett; (c) Peppermint Patty and Marcie.
I would put my money — I would suspect that maybe Jane Hathaway and Granny made a poultice one night, drank some moonshine out by the cement pond, both kind of picturing Ellie Mae. Eyes closed, picturing Ellie Mae, and making it work.

On where she would come out if Fey suddenly realized she were a lesbian (wishful thinking).

Tina Fey, some gay celebrities have come out on the cover of People magazine, some have come out on Oprah. If you realized that you had been living a lie tomorrow and just decided to come out, how would you choose to do it?
I would say either halftime at the Super Bowl would be good, or also it might be kind of weird to do it in the middle of the in-memoriam at the Oscars.

On who Fey would go lesbian for on TV.

Okay. Tina Fey, in an episode of 30 Rock, Frank unexpectedly fell for Liz’s boy toy Jamie. Liz tells him, “That’s not a thing. You can’t be gay for one person,” which is true, I think. But if you, Tina Fey, could be gay for one person on television, who would you dive in the lady pond for?
It’s a hard one. I mean, really, I’ve been asked this in the past. By the way — how many people in this room are just sitting there thinking I need to work on my triceps? Well, me, one. Um, I don’t know, people have asked me this before, and my stock answer is usually Oprah. But, uh, I would say maybe Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman.

Read the full exchange here.

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