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Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (/ f eɪ /; born May 18, 1970) is an American writer, comedian, actress, and producer. She was a cast member and head writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1997 to 2006.
30 Rock: Created by Tina Fey. With Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Jack McBrayer, Alec Baldwin. Liz Lemon, head writer of the sketch-comedy show "TGS with Tracy Jordan", must deal with an arrogant new boss and a crazy new star while trying to run a successful television show without losing her mind.
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- She Did A Book Report on Comedy When She Was 11.
- Her First TV Appearance Was in A Bank Commercial.
- She Was The First Woman to Be Named Head Writer of SNL.
- She’S The Youngest Mark Twain Prize Winner.
- She Wrote Satire For Her High School Newspaper.
- She Made Her Rap Debut with Childish Gambino on "Real Estate."
- She Voiced Princesses in A Beloved Pinball game.
- She Used Mean Girls to Push Back Against Stereotypes of Women in Math.
- She Set Up A Scholarship in Her Father’s Name to Help Veterans.
Fey got a very early start in comedy, watching a lot of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart, and Norman Lear shows as a kid. Her father and mother sneaked her in to see Young Frankenstein and would let her stay up late to watch The Honeymooners. So it’s no surprise that she chose comedy as the subject of a middle school project. The only book sh...
Saturday Night Live hired Fey as a writer in 1997. In 1995 she had the slightly more glamorous job of pitching Mutual Savings Bank with a radical floral applique vest and a handful of puns on the word “Hi.” In a bit of life imitating art, just as Liz Lemon’s 1-900-OKFACE commercial was unearthed and mocked on 30 Rock, the internet discovered Fey’s ...
Four years after that commercial and two after she joined Saturday Night Live’s writing staff, Fey earned a promotion to head writer. Up until that point, the head writers were named Michael, Herb, Bob, Jim, Steve. You get the picture. She acted as head writer for six seasons until moving on to write and executive produce 30 Rock. Since her departu...
Established in 1998, the Kennedy Center’s hilarious honor has mostly been awarded to funny people in the twilight of their careers. Richard Pryor was the first recipient, and comedians who made their marks decades prior like Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg, and George Carlin followed. Fey earnedthe award in 2010 when she was 40 years old, and the age ...
Fey was an outstanding student who was involved in choir, drama, and tennis, and co-edited the school’s newspaper, The Acorn. She also wrotea satirical column addressing “school policy and teachers” under the pun-tastic pseudonym “The Colonel.” Fey also recalled getting in trouble because she tried to make a pun on the phrase “annals of history.” C...
Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino) first gained notice as a member of Derrick Comedy in college, and Fey hired him at the age of 23 to write for 30 Rock. Before jumping from that show to Community, Glover put out his first mixtape under his stage name. After releasing his debut album, Camp, in 2011, Gambino dropped a sixth mixtape called Royal...
Between the bank commercial and Saturday Night Live, Fey has an intriguing credit on her resume: the arcade pinball machine “Medieval Madness.” Most of the game’s Arthurian dialogue was written by Second City members Scott Adsit (Pete Hornberger on 30 Rock) and Kevin Dorff, who pulled in fellow Second City castmate Fey to voice for an “Opera Singer...
There’s a ton of interesting trivia about Mean Girls, Fey’s first foray into feature film screenwriting. She bid on the rights to Rosalind Wiseman’s book that inspired the movie without realizing it didn’t have a plot. She initially wrote a large part for herself but kept whittling it down to focus on the teenagers, and her first draft was “for sur...
Fey’s father Donald was a Korean War veteran who also studied journalism at Temple University. When he died in 2015, Fey and her brother Peter foundeda memorial scholarship in his name that seeks to aid veterans who want to study journalism at Temple. "He was really inspiring," Fey said. "A lot of kids grow up with dreams of doing those things and ...
Mar 4, 2016 · Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: Directed by Glenn Ficarra, John Requa. With Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina. A journalist recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan.
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- 2016-03-04
1 day ago · Rolling into London six years after its Broadway premiere, and 20 since the original film became cult watching, Mean Girls, Tina Fey’s peppy, funny musical about teen queens and vicious high ...
Mar 10, 2021 · Learn about the life and career of comedian and writer Tina Fey, from her roots in Philadelphia to her success on SNL and 30 Rock. Discover how she created Mean Girls, Bossypants, and more, and what she loves about her hometown.
Apr 13, 2011 · Tina Fey's new memoir Bossypants contains her thoughts on juggling motherhood, acting, writing and executive producing 30 Rock.
