Turns out Tina Fey can make even tech nerds funny. During a Q&A with Google?s Eric Schmidt, the 30 Rock creator explained the rules of improv and tried to engage the executive chairman in a quick comedic bout ? until they ?hit a brick wall.?
?This is the problem with an engineer trying to learn improv,? Schmidt said after the bit went south.
The pair?s attempt at off-the-cuff comedy didn?t exactly kill, as can be seen in the video above, but watching a Saturday Night Live alum try to teach one of Silicon Valley?s most influential nerds how to be funny has a humor all its own.
Fey gave Schmidt the crash course at the Googleplex last week as part of the tech company?s Authors@Google series to promote her new book, Bossypants.
Beyond lessons in making ?em laugh, Fey also riffed on her desire to play a judge on Law & Order (?The hours and the outfit appeal to me?), the differences between male and female comedy writers (?The secret truth is that men urinate in cups?), and even Google itself (?I use Google a lot. But I don?t Google myself?).
During the nearly hour-long ?fireside chat? (there is no visible fire), Fey ? whose daughter?s gangsta walk made her more famous than her mother online earlier this month ? took questions from Google employees and from the internet. Responding to a question from a Googler, she said she would ?absolutely? consider giving Schmidt a guest spot on 30 Rock.
?You?re just the kind of guest star that would keep our ratings low,? Fey told Schmidt.
Angela is a reporter for the Underwire, Wired.com's pop culture blog. She is also a senior editor of Longshot magazine. Follow @WaterSlicer and @theunderwire on Twitter.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/04/video-tina-fey-eric-schmidt/
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