'Billy on the Street' Trips Up Tina Fey to Name 20 Latino Artists [Watch]
Tina Fey struggled to name 20 Latino celebrities in a recent segment with Billy Eichner on his show "Billy on the Street."
The host of the truTv comedy series told Fey she would have to thank 20 different Latino artists during a mock one minute Oscar acceptance speech as part of a game called "LaTina Fey."
Right away, the "30 Rock" star admitted to not being ready and laughed when Eichner told her the rules of the game. While Fey tried, right from the beginning she failed to name popular stars like Gina Rodriguez, who she called "the woman from 'Jane the Virgin.'"
She seemed to get better and named Eva Longoria, Lou Diamond Phillips, Danny Trejo, Freddie Prinze, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, back to back.
However, the 45-year-old star referred to actor Benjamin Bratt, who is part Peruvian, as the very handsome guy from 'Law & Order,'" after she couldn't remember his name but seemed confused and may have been thinking of Puerto Rican star Jimmy Smits, who hasn't been on "Law & Order."
Fey ends with Puerto Rican composer and playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda and Panamanian Daphne Rubin-Vega, who starred in the Broadway show "Rent."
Before she could think of number 20, the "Saturday Night Live" alum ran out of time and was shown the "Brokeback Mountain" pot holders she could have won.
"Tina Fey finally failed at something," Eichner said. "I think this is comforting to people who will see that it's actually okay, that even Tina Fey is flawed."
Fey acknowledged that she failed at remembering some of the more popular Latino stars like Pénelope Cruz, Sofia Vergara, Antonio Banderas, as well as Mexican directors Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu and actors Rita Moreno, Salma Hayek and Benicio del Toro, who have actually all won Academy Awards.
"Billy on the Street" premieres on Thursday, Oct. 8 on truTV.
Watch the funny "Billy on the Street" segment below.
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