Tina Fey. Tina Fey. Tina Fey teaches Google's Eric Schmidt about comedy. Turns out Tina Fey can make even tech nerds funny.
During a Q&A with Google's Eric Schmidt, the 30 Rock creator explained the rules of improv and tried to engage the executive chairman in a quick comedic bout…until they "hit a brick wall. " "This is the problem with an engineer trying to learn improv," Schmidt said after the bit went south. The pair's attempt at off-the-cuff comedy didn't exactly kill, as can be seen in the video above, but watching a Saturday Night Live alum try to teach one of Silicon Valley's most influential nerds how to be funny has a humour all its own. Fey gave Schmidt the crash course at the Googleplex last week as part of the tech company's Authors@Google series to promote her new book, Bossypants.
During the nearly hour-long "fireside chat" (there is no visible fire) Fey -- whose daughter's gangsta walk made her more famous than her mother online earlier this month -- took questions from Google employees and from the internet. Authors@Google: Tina Fey.