Fey's Palin countdown

Now she can stop apologizing for being an actor on "30 Rock."

That might be the upshot of Tina Fey winning the Emmy for best lead actress in a comedy tonight, she said back stage, after telling the live crowd earlier tonight that she's always felt like a writer first and wouldn't be where she is today without the foundation that career has provided.

(When she won the SAG award early this year, Fey compared herself to the hat rack that dances with Gene Kelly and, after a while, people think the hat rack is also a fairly good stepper. She hasn't considered herself much of an actress. Maybe that's over now).

Another thing Fey would like to stop doing? Playing Sarah Palin.

"I want to be done playing this lady Nov. 5. So if anybody can help me be done playing this lady Nov. 5, that would be great."

We'll do our part.