Tina Fey Asked To Weigh In On Slaughter At French Magazine, Defends Right To Make Dumb Jokes

An eczema of Tina Fey Defends Free Speech headlines broke out on the web this morning when Fey came to the Winter TV Press Tour to talk about Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, her new comedy series for Netflix. Thats because TV critics and Reporters Who Cover Television woke up this morning to news of a terrorist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. And so, in one of the most awkward moments of any TV Press Tour though this ones still in its first day and looking promising a reporter asked Fey to comment about the executions at the publication and the importance of satire, and to tie it into her work on this show and 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live.

Fey, who appeared not to have been prepped for that question, responded hesitantly. Obviously, that news is terrible and tragic and upsetting, she said, noting that todays news and the controversy surrounding the Sony movie The Interview are a reminder of how important free speech is and you cannot back down.

By way of a follow-up, another reporter asked Fey how she had dealt with pressure to not write or say something in her work. She deftlydodged that one, instead speaking more generically about this social media era, where you can make a joke on American TV and it can go worldwide. But were Americans; we have to be able even if its just dumb jokes in The Interview we have the right to make them.

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Tina Fey Asked To Weigh In On Slaughter At French Magazine, Defends Right To Make Dumb Jokes