The Saturday Night Live alums were at The Baby Mama premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last night to support Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Among the familiar funny faces were Molly Shannon, Chris Kattan, and Rachel Dratch - who has found a job after mentioning her unemployment plight earlier this month. The film is about a career woman played by Fey who hires a goofy irresponsible woman, Amy Poehler’s character, to be her surrogate. There is some speculation that Poehler might be coincidentally pregnant since she’s wearing this flouncy dress, but I think it’s just the style of the dress. Poehler, 36, has been married to Arrested Development’s Will Arnett, 37, since August, 2003, and they have two dogs but no children yet. Her co-star Tina Fey, 37, has a daughter, Alice, who is two and a half.

Fey told People Magazine a funny story about how she gained weight quickly during her pregnancy by eating too many donuts:

“Somewhere during my pregnancy I gained something like nine pounds in two weeks and my doctor was like, ‘You know what it might be? Are you drinking a lot of juice?’ I was like, ‘Yeah. That must be it.’ ” said the 30 Rock Emmy winner, 37. “I was eating like a box a day of Entenmann’s donuts.”

[From People.com]

Here’s the trailer. It looks amusing but not incredible, and is getting mixed reviews.

Also shown at the premiere are Will Arnett, Steve Martin, Romany Malco, Sigourney Weaver, Chevy Chase, Annabella Sciorra, Dax Shepard, Chris Kattan, Kristin Bell, Maggie Grace, Molly Shannon, Rachel Dratch, Robert DeNiro, Fred Durst looking old, and Padma Lakshmi. Thanks to PRPhotos and WENN for these pictures.

A couple of weeks ago we reported on how Tina Fey, star and creator of the super-funny “30 Rock,” was dreaming of casting Oprah Winfrey as her best friend on the show. That dream may become a reality, according to a source who was at a recent taping of Oprah’s show, on which Tina was a guest.

Dreams really do come true, and don’t let anyone tell you differently!

Just two weeks ago, while discussing some dream casting options for her NBC comedy 30 Rock, Tina Fey told reporters, “I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I feel like I want to spend time with Oprah, and I don’t know what I need to do to make that happen…”

Well, as of today, it might happen. A Chicagoland source just wrote in with this fantabulous news, “I just got back from a taping of The Oprah Show starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler for Baby Mama—it’s hilarious, BTW. Anyway, it looks like Oprah may be a guest on 30 Rock next season! Oprah said she had heard Tina wanted to be her best friend, and so Oprah asked whether Tina meant in real life or on the show, and Tina said both. Oprah said ‘Have your people, call my people,’ but she was definitely interested, and she said she’d like to do it. Tina gestured to the people in the audience, to the effect of ‘You heard her say it.’ They also addressed it on-air very briefly. And there is even a shout-out to Oprah in Baby Mama!”

[From E!Online]

I am excited about this- not because I like Oprah, but because having Oprah appear on the show might actually get more people watching it. Normally, I’m not a big fan of stunt casting, there are a few instances where it’s done really well and with great results, but at this point “30 Rock” can use the ratings.

Tina Fey, one of my favorite smart, funny actresses, was recently interviewed by USA Today regarding the future fate of her award-winning but under-watched sitcom, “30 Rock.” Tina, after being asked about the recent stunt casting on CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother,” admitted that she’s been holding out for a certain guest appearance of her own: Oprah Winfrey.

here’s one star Tina Fey would really like to have on 30 Rock. “I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah,” Fey said in a press conference call a few minutes ago. “And I don’t know what I need to do to make that happen.”

She said Tim Conway (one of her childhood favorites) will be a guest this upcoming season, kicking off April 10 with five new episodes. And as for who she would like to see cast as a love interest for Liz Lemon, she says: “You know who would be good? Peter Dinklage. That guy’s awesome.”

By the way, Peter Dinklage is the actor who appeared in “The Station Agent” and played the angry little person who beats the crap out of Will Ferrell in “Elf.” I agree- he would be totally awesome as a love interest for Liz Lemon! Tina also said that if the right part and the right storyline came along, she wouldn’t rule out asking Britney Spears to appear on her show.

Fey said she’d be happy to have Britney Spears on, but explained that “usually we write a part first and then think about who would be good. If there were a part that was appropriate, I don’t think we’d hesitate to go with somebody like that. I worked with Britney twice at SNL and she was very professional and nice.” She didn’t catch her last night, however, on How I Met Your Mother. She said she’d have to watch it on “the computer.”

[From USA Today]

It might not be a bad idea for “30 Rock” to pull some stunt casting- “How I Met Your Mother,” which is a supremely inferior show, boasted its best rating ever with the Spears cameo. “30 Rock” actually has great writers and an amazing cast, but nobody has noticed- just think what they could do with a big star. They definitely could use the ratings.

In Tuesday’s new issue of Vanity Fair, famed photographer Annie Leibowitz captures a photo shoot of some of entertainment’s funny women dressed as Hollywood’s most troubled starlets. The shoot is part of a story in VF about the rise of female comedians like Tina Fey and Sarah Silverman.

The ladies channel pop tarts for the photog (it’s doubtless Amy Winehouse ever got a laugh for political parody). Sarah does her best Amy, complete with pinup-girl tattoos, The Office sweetheart Jenna Fischer goes Lindsay Lohan (center) and Wanda Sykes gets nasty as Lil Kim (right).

“There is no question that there are a million more funny women than there used to be,” writer Nora Ephron says of the featured femmes, also including E!’s Chelsea Handler (second from left) and Sandra Bernhard (left).

Alessandra Stanley’s cover story explores the recent inundation of female-driven comedy that, while capturing mass audiences (good move on f***ing Matt Damon, Sarah), relies heavily on sex appeal.

30 Rock creator Tina thinks you can thank Jennifer Aniston for that.

“In the ’90s, it seemed like every person on a sitcom — think of the cast of Friends —was just really foxy,” Tina says.

Joan Rivers echoes the sentiments.

“Nowadays, you can’t even get on open mike with less than a C cup,” the Botoxed comedy vet said.

The issue, C cups and all, hits newsstands nationwide next Tuesday.

[From Page Six]

Jenna Fischer, who plays Pam on “The Office,” says the idea of playing Lindsay Lohan in a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz was such a source of stress and excitement, she had trouble sleeping the night before the shoot.

Turns out Jenna, 33, was more concerned with impressing the legendary photographer shooting her than with La Lohan.

“I couldn’t sleep the night before the shoot because I was so nervous to be shot by Annie Leibovitz. As a result I would sit and stare off into space when she was focusing on the other girls,” Jenna tells PageSix.com.

And about Lindsay?

“Then all of a sudden I’d hear Annie say, ‘That’s perfect, Jenna!’ and she’d be clicking away,” the actress says. “I guess for me, channeling Lindsay meant not getting enough sleep.”

[From Page Six]

I think it’s great that female comic actors are getting some much deserved attention, but it is ironic that the girls they’re lampooning in the shoot get more attention for their drug-addled, cooch-flashing antics, though. Tina Fey has more talent in her pinky finger than Blohan, Paris and Britney put together, if you ask me.

Pictures from Vanity Fair via ONTD.

Actress and writer/producer Tina Fey ripped on Paris Hilton in an interview with Howard Stern in November, 2006. She dished on how immature Paris was when she appeared on Saturday Night Live, annoying cast and crew and coming up with idiotic suggestions for skits. Here’s the relevant part of the interview in case you’d like a refresher. She called Paris a piece of shit and said she’s dumb and self important:

HS: What is Paris Hilton like?

TF: She’s a piece of sh-t. The people at SNL were like maybe she’ll be fun, maybe she won’t take herself so seriously. She takes herself so seriously! She’s unbelievably dumb and so proud of how dumb she is. She looks like a tranny up close.

HS: Was she bad on SNL, was she hard to deal with?

TF: She was awful. People never come in and say “I’m not doing that.” So, this guy Jim Downey wrote a really really funny sketch, it was supposed to be Lorne Michaels just finding out that she had a sex tape and telling her she couldn’t host the show because SNL has standards… So she was like “I’m not doing it!” and refused to come out of her dressing room. Also, you would walk down the hall and find what just looked like nasty wads of Barbie hair on the stairs… Her hair is like a Fraggle.

HS: Did she give you ideas for sketches?

TF: Yeah, she wanted to make fun of all the girls she hates. She was like “I want to play Jessica Simpson, I hate her.” She would come in the room and say “you should do a show about Jessica Simpson because she’s fat.”

HS: What was the bet you guys had going about her?

TF: The cast had a bet if she would ask anyone on the cast anything about themselves, you know like how are you? where are you from? anything. I think Seth Meyers won because at one point, she asked him if Maya Rudolf was Italian.

[From US Weekly]

Star Magazine has quotes from Tina Fey’s interview in Gotham Magazine’s yearbook issue, and the Golden Globe winner reveals that it was her gynecologist that made her have second thoughts about her public diss of the heirhead. Can you just picture her laying there in the stirrups with a contemplative look on her face? Anyone who criticized me at that point would get special consideration due to the circumstances:

When Tina went on Howard Stern and dissed Paris Hilton… she got flack from her gynecologist! “She was like… ‘That was very hostile. Are you alright?’ And I was like, ‘You know what? You’re right… What business is it of mine?”

[Excerpt from Gotham Magazine article found in Star Magazine, print edition, January 28, 2008.]

Tina also spoke out in her characteristically blunt way about the unreal standards for beauty in Hollywood. She said “I think TV has conditioned our brains to see fake teeth and fake tans and fake lips, so when you see a normal person, you’re like ‘Oh, that’s disappointing…’ I’m probably always disappointing, with my crooked teeth and thin lips.”

Tina looks hot to me and that’s great that she never fell prey to the plastic surgery obsession that plagues so many of her colleagues. She’s lovely and it would never occur to me that there’s anything wrong with her mouth, especially considering the awesome observations that come out of it. Anyone that says Paris Hilton has Fraggle hair deserves our utmost respect.

Ms. Fey is supporting her fellow writers in the WGA and has been seen picketing. There are new informal talks announced between the The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and the hope is that they will become full negotiations and that the strike will be resolved soon. There is hope that the strike may end in time for the Oscars.

Tina Fey sis shown at the Emmys on 9/16/07, where she won for her show 30 Rock. Thanks to PRPhotos.