What does your “figure” have to do with the funny?

tinafey.jpgA review of Baby Mama (whose problematic title is being discussed here) in The New Yorker gets a little…well, sexist.

Kate [Fey] stalks around bare-legged in skirts that lurch to a halt two inches above the knee, which is a length that Christy Turlington would struggle to carry off. It’s possible that Fey, like other television stars, is unused to being framed in full length, and, though in complete command of her delivery—dry, spiky, but unthreatening—she hasn’t yet made up her mind how funny her body is meant to be. She isn’t big enough to make a joke of her ripeness, like Bette Midler, but she’s no Lily Tomlin, either. She could do worse than steal a trick from Lucille Ball—a lovely, elegant figure who taught herself to be graceless.

Does this annoy the shit out of anyone else?
Thanks to Anne for the heads up.

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