Tina Fey was present at the 88th Academy Awards this past weekend to present the award for best production design with her longtime buddy Steve Carell, but that doesn't mean she's a big fan of the Oscar winners. The "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" actress took several shots at the handful of politically charged acceptance speeches she heard Sunday night.
"I will say being at the Oscars...halfway through, I was like, 'This is some real Hollywood bullsh--,'" Fey said while Howard Stern's Sirius XM radio show on Tuesday. "Everyone is telling me what to do. People yelling at me about rape and corporate greed, but really it's climate change. I was like, 'Guys, pick a lane.' 'We're going to fix everything tonight.' Also, you're all rich. Why are you all yelling at me about corporate greed? You're all so rich."
There were a handful of calls to action from notable celebrities during Sunday's ceremony. Lady Gaga and Vice president Joe Biden commented on sexual assault, best adapted screenplay winner Adam McKay criticized those that "take money from bid banks, oil or weirdo billionaires," and best actor winner Leonardo DiCaprio's warned of climate change.
However, that last one caught Fey's attention.
"I always am psyched when someone is articulate about those things because, let's face it, actors are very stupid," she joked when asked by Stern what her impression of DiCaprio's speech was. "A lot of times when you let them talk, oof. But he's so smart, and his speech was so cogent."
On top of the Oscars, Fey also was present at the famous Vanity Fair Oscars party.
"I'm such small potatoes at that thing," she said while talking about the event's photo booth.
"You go in a room and I think it was, like, [photographer] Mark Seliger takes your picture. And there was a gorgeous picture online the next day of Lady Gaga in the photo booth, and she's like swirling her pants-cape or whatever it was. And the quote was like, 'I just felt after my performance at the Oscars, I felt like a weight had been lifted, I felt like I could stop hiding.' And I wanted to be like, 'Ooh girl, have you been hiding? Because you've been doing a terrible job hiding. Because I've been seeing you everywhere. You've been hiding? Okay.'"
Fey can next be seen in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" which will be released in theaters on Thursday.
