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Article: 'Baby Mama' an easy comedy

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April 25, 2008
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"Baby Mama" is a pleasantly predictable new wrinkle on the "moving to the mommy track" comedy, which "Baby Boom" launched lo those many years ago. It's about surrogacy, or as the annoying entrepreneur-zealot (Sigourney Weaver) who hooks up fertile women ("gestation assistants") with those who can't have kids puts it, "outsourcing" pregnancy.

And if this comedy filled with "Saturday Night Live" alumni isn't a laugh riot, well, when was the last time anything producer Lorne Michaels stuck his name on was a hoot?

Tina Fey stars as Kate, 37 years old and hearing her biological clock's alarm go off.

"Katy's coming out of the mommy closet," teases her sister (Maura Tierney), who already has kids.

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