Now that Seth MacFarlane has tweeted that he simply can't find the time to host the Oscars again, is it too early to say: "Tina Fey, come on down!"
"I think that's too hard," Fey tells The Times over the phone, when asked if she'd take the job. "Too many dresses to try on."
Really, Tina? You're going to go with the whole degree-of-difficulty dress thing as your primary reason to dodge the high-profile opportunity to flaunt your charm and talents in front of an audience of tens of millions of people?
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"Hey, don't underestimate how exhausting it is to try on 85 dresses — and 79 of them are humiliating," Fey says, laughing.
Of course, that's not why Fey, who memorably co-hosted the Golden Globes last year with pal Amy Poehler, doesn't want the Academy Awards gig. As jobs go, hosting the Oscars might be a little toohigh-profile with the risks (bombing in front of your peers and a huge television audience) outweighing the rewards. (See:...