Tina Fey and her awesome show 30 Rock scored some major Emmy victories last night. They took home seven awards including best comedy, best actor and actress for Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey. She also won a best writer award.

Family seemed to be on her mind a lot during the evening, as she thanked her parents but gave them a most unusual (and self-deprecating) compliment.

“I thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities. Well done. That is what all parents should do,” said Fey, who also won for best actress and writing in a comedy series.

[From Yahoo News]

There’s a similar theme surrounding Fey’s character on 30 ROCK, who often seems hard to distinguish form Fey herself. Although she’s obviously being funny, that’s one of those jokes you can tell has a lot of truth behind it, especially because it’s a reoccurring theme. Nonetheless, it’s also a funny way of thanking her parents for always making her feel good about herself and feel like she had self-worth, so I bet she makes sure to be that kind of parent.

There were also a lot of questions about Tina’s Sarah Palin impersonation, which got rave reviews and became the number one most watched viral video on NBC.com. Fey said Palin is not a character she plans on playing again, and she was initially hesitant to even acknowledge the uncanny resemblance. However she gave in when her daughter was watching Palin on TV and thought she was Fey.

As it turns out, Fey would rather not see Palin become a regular character on “SNL.”

“I want to be done playing this lady November 5th,” Fey said when asked backstage about how she feels about the election. “So, if anyone can help me be done playing her on November 5th…”

Fey added that Palin “seems like a perfectly nice lady,” but that she had been reluctant at first to admit that they look alike.

“I was very resistant to acknowledge that there was a resemblance,” Fey said. “Then my kid saw Sarah Palin on TV and said ‘That’s Mommy.’”

Finally, Fey asked enlisted reporters’ help in finding her purse, which disappeared after she left it under her seat in L.A.’s Nokia theater. “If anyone sees a small purple purse with an iPhone in it with a picture of a naked toddler,” she said.

[From Reuters]

I really have a special love for Tina Fey. That came out wrong. But I think I do have a girl crush on her. There’s this great line in 30 Rock when her character Liz Lemmon meets her idol, who’s also a television writer, played by Carrie Fisher. She greets her by saying, “You are my heroine. And by heroine I mean lady hero; I don’t want to inject you and listen to jazz.” I’m pretty sure that line right there won her at least 2 Emmys. And made her my heroine. Though if I were ever to inject anything, it’d totally be Tina Fey.

Tina Fey is shown in a PR image from Saturday Night Live and at the Emmy Awards last night with Alec Baldwin. Credit: WENN

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