Tina Fey Jokes to GQ: Toddlers Are 'Total D-Bags'

By Zach Dionne Posted Apr 21st 2011 02:35PM

Tina Fey, pregnant with her second child and hot off the release of a new book, has been doing plenty of press lately. But there's a good chance no single interview has been as marvelous and genuinely funny as her new talk with GQ magazine.

Interviewer Dan Fierman commiserates with Fey about parenting, quoting comedian Louis C.K.'s infamous gag about calling his own children "a**holes."

"I think that any person being an a**hole deserves it," Fey replies. "Especially toddlers-they're total d-bags. You gotta let them know."

On being a supposedly "terrible actor": "[Liz Lemon] is the spine, yes. But I always feel like she's like Jerry Seinfeld on 'Seinfeld.' You couldn't have done 'Seinfeld' and hired some random guy to be Seinfeld. What he was bringing was very specific to him."

On constant Liz-Lemon-is-unattractive gags: "It has nothing to do with the physical symmetry of her size or anything. So no, she's not ugly. She's kind of sloppy. But all the clothes that Liz Lemon wears are much nicer than what I would wear on a writing-hiatus week."

On parenting a newborn, which she's about to do again, with husband Jeff Richmond: "My husband was really good about helping out. The problem was diapers. He never got past the poop. He would do these [gagging noise] Oh God, I'm gonna vomit. Never got over it."

Read the full interview over at GQ.com or grab the print issue on newsstands everywhere. GQ's relaunched iPad app is also available here and features Tina Fey reading an excerpt from her new book, 'Bossypants.'

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Thursday 21 April

By tony

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tina,it takes one to know one.

By @tony

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ZING! Well, I guess you told her, Tony! *sarcasm*

By Eviliz

What is with the world nowadays? EVERYBODY has moments of being a 'd-bag'. Behavior that is defined (by me anyway) as 'self-absorbed, whiney, devoid of empathy, and with an inflated sense of self-importance {aka 'the world revolves around me and my needs!'} Sounds like every 2 year old. And before you go off with the "But Eviliz... They don't know better" defense, she's not saying she blames them, just that she points it out to them. "Your behavior is not appropriate." That's called parenting.

By the_fool

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She could have meant that the are democrat bags.

By dthomp1313

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who could actualy care what this twit says? If you do, then you desperately need a real life. Put the cigarette down, put up the malt liquor forty, get your fat rear off the couch, and do something worthwhile in life!!

By marvin

Is it so difficult for AOL to print the words "douche bag"?

By yup

Eviliz,your definition sounds a lot like most 15 year olds as well.

By Ted

Yeah, most kids are.

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