{"id":1911338,"date":"2023-04-07T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-glover-says-tina-fey-told-him-he-was-a-diversity-hire-on-30-rock\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T12:32:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T16:32:58","slug":"donald-glover-says-tina-fey-told-him-he-was-a-diversity-hire-on-30-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-glover-says-tina-fey-told-him-he-was-a-diversity-hire-on-30-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Glover Says Tina Fey Told Him He Was A \u2018Diversity\u2019 Hire On \u201830 Rock\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-glover-says-tina-fey-told-him-he-was-a-diversity-hire-on-30-rock%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1911338&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Professional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Donald Glover<\/span><\/a> recalled an incident from his early career in which Tina Fey claimed he was a&#8221; variety&#8221; hire for the well-liked sitcom&#8221; 30 Rock&#8221; in an interview that was released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 39-year-old actor discussed it during an interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/donald-glover-global-creativity-awards-cover-2023\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GQ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cThere is no animosity between us or anything like that, but [Tina Fey] said it herself. \u2026 It was a diversity thing. The last two people who were fighting for the job were me and Kenya Barris,\u201d Glover recalled of being hired as a writer for \u201c30 Rock.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barris is the brains behind the popular humor&#8221; Black &#8211; ish&#8221; and some subsidiary endeavors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It wasn&#8217;t until later that I realized it was between me and [ Barris ]. He once hit me and said,&#8221; I&#8217;ve hated&#8217;ve you for years!&#8221; Glaver went on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glover claimed that during that time in his early career, he struggled with sham syndrome, which suggested that the man didn&#8217;t feel equipped to have landed the job. &#8221; It didn&#8217;t feel like I should be there at all. Every night during pain dreams, I would perform cartwheels on top of a New York building while the other writers kept an eye on me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The actor mentioned believing he was hired because he was black before, during a 2018 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/03\/05\/donald-glover-cant-save-you\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">profile<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in The New Yorker.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; I questioned: Am I being hired merely because I&#8217;m black&#8217;m?&#8221; Technically speaking, the answer was yes after he claimed Fey told him that money from NBC&#8217;s Diversity&#8217;s Initiative had basically&#8221; made him complimentary.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The comic show&#8221; 30 Rock&#8221; has received criticism in the past. Fey commented on the removal of shows that featured roles in Blackface in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1680963907673000&#038;usg=AOvVaw19yfQODUjTEL0NV9traSuI\">TO GET THE DAILYWIRE + APP, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs we strive to do the work and do better in regards to race in America, we believe that these episodes featuring actors in race-changing makeup are best taken out of circulation,\u201d Fey wrote in a letter to the platforms that streamed or sold \u201c30 Rock,\u201d as The Daily Wire previously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/30-rock-blackface-episodes-yanked-tina-fey-apologizes\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I now realize that using these images with&#8221; goal&#8221; is not a free pass for white people. I&#8217;m sorry&#8217;m they hurt you in any way. No child who enjoys comic needs to come across these tropes in the future and be offended by their ugliness. I appreciate NBCUniversal granting this demand.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview published Tuesday, actor Donald Glover recalled an instance in his early career in which Tina Fey said he was a \u201cdiversity\u201d hire for the popular sitcom \u201c30 Rock.\u201d The 39-year-old actor discussed it during an interview with GQ. \u201cThere is no animosity between us or anything like that, but [Tina Fey] said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1911339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10280,6759,4657,22220,23775,5443,3730,22219,3737],"class_list":["post-1911338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-10280","tag-diversity","tag-donald","tag-fey","tag-glover","tag-hire","tag-rock","tag-tina","tag-told"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1911339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}