Tina Fey rules the world

This time last month, Tina Fey had a little TV show that ratings analysts have predicted would never be a breakout hit. Since then, she's added three more Emmys to her mantle, will soon become a published author and become exponentially more beloved, thanks to her keen ability to mock Vice Presidential nominee and End Times enthusiast Sarah Palin.

About 10 million folks tuned in to see Fey's latest evisceration of Palin - that's more than 95% of NBC's prime time programming gets, and up 42% from a year ago. Palin's certainly paying attention: At a rally today, she explained that doggone interview with Katie Couric was her way of "just trying to keep Tina Fey in business," and it looks like she'll appear on "SNL's" Thursday-night installment this week, perhaps playing Tina Fey.

Meanwhile, Fey's cleaning up in the publishing world, too - she'll earn somewhere in the neighborhood of $6 million to write a book of "humorous essays." (Alas, by the time the book comes out, we'll either have forgotten Palin or her Presidency will have reduced the nation to rubble.) And here we were, worried that Fey was over-extending herself by honing that Palin impersonation while also writing, producing and starring in "30 Rock."

(By the way, here's a handy online library of the clips Fey no doubt refers to when playing Palin.)