Ian McKellen  3-16-02


*Read about the making of this Update in Entertainment Weekly 

Secret Joke Of The WeekFEY: The Justice Department announced plans this week for a new color-coded terrorism alert system, with green for the most relaxed, and red as the most serious warning. However, if the scale goes above orange, I will make brown. [adlibs: I will, too]

FEY: Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton have adopted a baby boy from Cambodia. No word yet on what they plan to use the boy for.

Dame Maggie SmithFALLON: Best Supporting Actor?
MAGGIE SMITH: Oh, without a doubt, Ian McKellen. They've got to throw that old queen a bone sometime.
FALLON: Is he gay? I didn't even know that...

FALLON: [adlibbing] Maggie Smith should shave! Does this mean I'm knighted?! Or, did I just get queened?
FEY: That's good!

 

Paula Jones and Tonya Harding FEY: [on Celebrity Boxing] Now, this doesn't seem like a very even matchup. Tonya, you're a professional athlete, and Paula, what do you do?
PAULA JONES: I'm a stay at home actress.
FEY: Alright, time to go ladies, thanks for coming out...
TONYA HARDING: Hey, ya know what, Tina? You think you're so great - with your glasses, and - and, your glasses... I'm gonna kill you!
FEY: Oh yea, really? Let's do this! [takes off her glasses and they run away] Yea, that's what I thought, Tonya Harding!

 

 

FEY: Tricon Global Restaurants, which owns Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut announced that they are buying A&W and Long John Silvers. It's a selection designed to make anyone's mouth water...in that way it does right before you puke.

 


awwFEY: The creators Barbie have obtained a court order banning a new Argentinean movie called "Barbie Gets Sad Too," which shows Barbie having graphic sex. Apparently their biggest objection is the scene where Barbie turns around and takes it in the Mattel.