Tina Fey Thinks Afghanistan’s Tragedy Is Funny

Not since John Wayne paraded through 1968’s “The Green Berets” has a Hollywood star fired off such a tone deaf, sickening film as Tina Fey’s “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.”

In Tina Fey’s Beverly Hills perspective the atrocities of the Afghan War are just ripe for her to go romping through in a self-realization comedy – Oh, all those kids blown up? Women raped, burned for attempting to go to school? Massive deaths from car bombs STILL taking place nearly every day?

Tina Fey, from her comfortable mansion, thinks she can joke about that because heck, laughs make the world go round.

Go to some to funerals in Kabul, Fey, and crack some jokes. See if that makes the surviving family members feel better. We know it’ll break up your filthy rich insulated Hollywood friends.

For some outrageous quotes from the out-of-touch Hollywood types read the LA Times piece:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-whiskey-tango-foxtrot-tina-fey-movie-theaters-war-comedy-20160304-story.html

Example:

Fey: “If you look back at an earlier generation…it would be okay to laugh at this experience.” Hey, Fey. Afghans are dying every day right now. Is THAT funny?

The writers have the gall to compare “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” to such “comedies” as Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22.” Even Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five.”

Vonnegut, if you don’t know, was a young prisoner of war in Dresden during WWII. Taken underground into “Slaughterhouse-Five” with other prisoners during an Allied incendiary bombing raid on Dresden they came out to find the city burned down and 25,ooo citizens burned along with it. Vonnegut and his fellow US prisoners of war were forced by their German captors into the stench of a city of burned human flesh to bury the corpses.

Yes, he wrote a powerful novel from these experiences. And it was novel that came from a place of such personal horrors of the war experience that Vonnegut mastered an absurdist humor that can only come from deep loss.

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Clueless, pretentious people like Tina Fey are crap on soles of those who have truly walked and suffered through the horrors of war.

 

Tina Fey & “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”: Clueless In Afghanistan

Addendum: ParamountUK has just sent out a  promotional tweet for “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”: “War journalism has never been this fun.”

The goddamn gall of these people. Meanwhile a record number of civilians died last year in Afghanistan’s war.

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We just saw the theatre trailer for the new Tina Fey self-actualization film “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” and jaws dropped.

Apparently Tina Fey is so self-satisfied with herself she sees nothing wrong with setting a comedy about a woman finding her place professionally in the midst of the ongoing horrors of war taking place in Afghanistan.

Yes, if you can believe it, we are supposed to laugh in the trailer as a Humvee full of soldiers is blown up.

We’ve not heard one word among critics about how Fey has been slumming and slacking in the comedy world for far too long. “Sisters,” anyone?

How many decades has Fey gotten by with a lame joke followed by a lame smirk.

That’s not comedy. That’s just plain lazy.

It wasn’t funny back when Chevy Chase was doing it 40 years ago on SNL and it’s not funny now. Fey has gotten a pass for too long.

And now the ubiquitous Fey thinks she’s going to squeeze dollars out of audiences by getting laughs out of Afghanistan’s tragedies?

Let’s see how “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is going to play to audiences in Kabul.