All week, tabloids and paparazzi have been doing their best to ignite a flame war between singer/famous young person Taylor Swift and beloved comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, all because Fey and Poehler made a (pretty tame) joke about Swift at last month's Golden Globes. Fey was confronted by a photographer (see the video below) and asked about the non-feud while crossing the street in the West 70's in Manhattan yesterday, and she responded appropriately, "Go f--k yourself." It seems she's learned a thing or two from her old co-star.
To recap this stupidity: at the Golden Globe awards, Fey and Poehler joked about Swift's dating life (see the video below), warning her to “stay away from Michael J. Fox’s son,” and maybe consider taking a little "'me time' to learn about herself." Vanity Fair then asked Swift about it for their cover story this month, and she decided to quote Madeline Albright without quoting her: “You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people, because she said to me she had heard a quote that she loved, that said, ‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.’”
Swift is 22 or 23 or whatever years old—she's young and famous and living in a very bright spotlight, and she has the right to date whomever she wants and write whatever semi-biographical, semi-embarrassing lyrics about said experiences, and then go out and repeat the cycle all over again. But Fey and Poehler are also allowed to make fun of her, as a public person who makes funny decisions, like dating Jake Gyllenhaal—and their jokes were rather gentle about it, anyway. And really, it doesn't sound like either side cares that much about it—at least not as much as certain parts of the internet would like them to.
Poehler of course had the best reaction to this whole thing, because she is the best: "Aw, I feel bad if she was upset," she told Hollywood Reporter. "I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff."
