When Fallon left as a cast member, he was replaced by Amy Poehler.įey left Saturday Night Live to work on a new show, 30 Rock but in February 2008 she returned to host the first show of Saturday Night Live after the Writers Guild of America strike. NBC has me under contract the baby and I only have a verbal agreement." Fey was co-anchor of 'Weekend Update' with Jimmy Fallon. Horatio Sanz replaced her for those two episodes before she returned to work, joking "I had to get back to work. The team of writers also went on to win an Emmy Award for their writing in 2002.įey was absent from the 'Weekend Update' section of the show for two episodes when she was on maternity leave for the birth of her daughter Alice. Fey won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2001 for her role in co-writing the Saturday Night Live 25th Anniversary show. By 1999, she became the first female head writer on Saturday Night Live. In 1997, Fey enlisted the help of Adam McKay, who landed her a role as a writer for the hugely popular Saturday Night Live. Two years later, Fey was invited to join the core Second City theatre group and performed in Paradigm Lost. She then moved to Chicago, Illinois, to study at The Second City theatre school. Tina Fey studied drama at the University of Virginia and graduated in 1992. In the eighth grade, she did a comedy project, at which point her love of the subject was really starting to take form. Tina's parents encouraged her to watch comedy as a child, letting her stay up to watch Honeymooners and sneaking her in to the cinema to see Young Frankenstein.Īs a child, Fey studied at Cardington Elementary School and Beverley Hills Middle School. She has a mixed ancestry of Greek (on her mother's side), German and Scottish (on her father's side). Tina Fey was born in the Upper Darby area of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, to Zenovia and Donald Fey.
She is one of the writers for Saturday Night Live and has won six Emmys for her work. Tina Fey is a comedian, writer and producer. Tina Fey (born Elizabeth Stamatina Fey, )
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