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Article: Womb Mates; In 'Baby Mama,' The Laughs Have Time to Gestate
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 25, 2008
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"Baby Mama" isn't exactly laugh-out-loud funny. It's more quiet-
chuckle funny, which is fine, too. This latest addition to the
pregnancy comedy trend, starring Tina Fey as an overachieving
corporate vice president who hires a working-class party girl (Amy
Poehler) to be a surrogate mother, ambles along with such low-key,
easygoing humor that it's almost a shock to the system: Where are
the hamburger phones, the rat-a-tat pop culture references, the
porn?
All have been left behind in the service of what is a far more
observant, if uneven, comedy of 21st-century manners. As "Baby Mama"
opens, Kate Holbrook (Fey) explains how at 37 she has stopped
pressing the snooze button on her biological ...
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