Tina Fey Wikipedia. Elizabeth Stamatina Tina Fey born May 1. American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. She is best known for her work on the NBCsketch comedy series Saturday Night Live 1. Rock 2. 00. 62. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 2. Fey is also known for her film work, with her most notable appearances including roles in Baby Mama 2. I think describing himself as a comedian is the only funny thing the man has ever said. Dont bother telling me that I dont get it I dont want it. MTI3OTk4NDU2MDc4NDA2MzYwNA%3D%3D.2' alt='Funny Comedian Videos Hair High ' title='Funny Comedian Videos Hair High ' />Date Night 2. Muppets Most Wanted 2. Sisters 2. 01. 5, and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 2. Lucky Loser. Comedian Big Jay Oakerson is known for setting up couples in his audience during live shows. Now hes seeing if those skills work in the real world as he. Funny Comedian Videos Hair High ' title='Funny Comedian Videos Hair High ' />Fey broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago based improvisational comedy group The Second City. She then joined SNL as a writer, later becoming head writer and a performer, known for her position as co anchor in the Weekend Update segment and, later, for her satirical portrayal of 2. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in subsequent guest appearances. In 2. 00. 4, she co starred in and wrote the screenplay for Mean Girls, which was adapted from the 2. Queen Bees and Wannabes. After leaving SNL in 2. Fey created the television series 3. Rock for Broadway Video, a sitcom loosely based on her experiences at SNL. In the series, Fey starred as Liz Lemon, the head writer of a fictional sketch comedy series. Fey has received nine Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Writers Guild of America Awards. Her memoir, Bossypants 2. The New York Times Best Seller list for five weeks. In 2. 00. 8, the Associated Press gave Fey the AP Entertainer of the Year award for her Sarah Palin impression on SNL. In 2. Fey was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, becoming the youngest ever recipient of the award. On January 1. Fey hosted the 7. Golden Globe Awards with her long time friend and fellow comedian, Amy Poehler, to critical acclaim. The duo hosted again the following two years, generating the highest ratings for the annual ceremony in a decade and receiving similar acclaim. Early lifeeditElizabeth Stamatina Fey was born on May 1. Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Her father, Donald Henry Fey died 2. University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University and a grant proposal writer who raised 5. She has a brother, Peter, who is eight years older. Her mother, Zenobia Jeanne ne Xenakes,71. Piraeus, the daughter of Greek immigrants to the U. S. Feys maternal grandmother, Vasiliki Kourelakou, left Petrina in Laconia on her own and arrived in the U. Strawberry Shortcake: Meet Strawberry Shortcake The Movie High Quality more. S. in February 1. Feys father had English, German, Northern Irish, Scottish, and Russian ancestry one of her paternal ancestors was John Hewson 1. America with the support of Benjamin Franklin, enabling Hewson to quickly open a quilting factory in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to a genealogical DNA test arranged by the television series Finding Your Roots, Feys ancestry is 9. European, 3 Middle Eastern, and 3 from the Caucasus. Fey was exposed to comedy early I remember my parents sneaking me in to see Young Frankenstein. We would also watch Saturday Night Live, or Monty Python, or old Marx Brothers movies. My dad would let us stay up late to watch The Honeymooners. We were not allowed to watch The Flintstones though my dad hated it because it ripped off The Honeymooners. I actually have a very low level of Flintstones knowledge for someone my age. At age 1. 1, Fey read Joe Franklins Seventy Years of Great Film Comedians for a school project about comedy. She grew up watching Second City Television and has cited Catherine OHara as a role model. Fey attended Cardington Stonehurst Elementary School and Beverly Hills Middle School in Upper Darby. By middle school, she knew she was interested in comedy. Fey attended Upper Darby High School, where she was an honors student,1. The Acorn. 1. 92. She also anonymously wrote the newspapers satirical column, The Colonel. Following her graduation in 1. Fey enrolled at the University of Virginia, where she studied play writing and acting and was awarded the Pettway Prize. She graduated in 1. Bachelor of Arts degree in drama. After college, she worked as a receptionist during the day at the YMCA in Evanston, Illinois, and took classes at the Second City at night. Saturday Night Live 1. While performing shows with The Second City in 1. Fey submitted several scripts to NBCs variety show Saturday Night Live SNL, at the request of its head writer Adam Mc. Kay, a former performer at Second City. She was hired as a writer2. SNL following a meeting with SNL creator Lorne Michaels, and moved to New York from Chicago. Fey told The New Yorker, Id had my eye on the show forever, the way other kids have their eye on Derek Jeter. Originally, Fey struggled at SNL. Her first sketch to air starred Chris Farley in a Sally Jessy Raphael satire. Fey went on to write a series of parodies, including one of ABCs morning talk show The View. She co wrote the Sully and Denise sketches with Rachel Dratch,2. Fey was an extra in a 1. She told The New York Times, I was a completely normal weight, but I was here in New York City, I had money and I couldnt buy any clothes. After I lost weight, there was interest in putting me on camera. In 1. 99. 9, Mc. Kay stepped down as head writer, which led Michaels to approach Fey for the position. She became SNLs first female head writer that year. In 2. 00. 0, Fey began performing in sketches,1. Jimmy Fallon became co anchors of SNLs Weekend Update segment. Fey said she did not ask to audition, but that Michaels approached her. Michaels explained that there was chemistry between Fey and Fallon,3. Her role in Weekend Update was well received by critics. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly wrote. Fey delivers such blow darts  poison filled jokes written in long, precisely parsed sentences unprecedented in Update history  with such a bright, sunny countenance makes her all the more devilishly delightful. Dennis Miller, a former cast member of SNL and anchor of Weekend Update, was pleased with Fey as one of the anchors for the segment. Fey might be the best Weekend Update anchor who ever did it. She writes the funniest jokes. Robert Bianco of USA Today, however, commented that he was not enamored of the pairing. In 2. 00. 1, Fey and the rest of the writing staff won a Writers Guild of America Award for SNLs 2. The following year at the 2. Emmy Awards ceremony, they won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program. When Fallon left the show in May 2. Weekend Update by Amy Poehler. It was the first time that two women co anchored Weekend Update. Fey revealed that she hired Poehler as her co host for the segment. The reception was positive, with Rachel Sklar of the Chicago Tribune noting that the pairing has been a hilarious, pitch perfect success as they play off each other with quick one liners and deadpan delivery. The 2. 00. 52. 00. Rock for Broadway Video. At the time she left, the 1. SNLs longest serving Weekend Update anchor, a mark that would later be passed by her replacement, Seth Meyers. In Rolling Stones February 2. SNL cast members to date, Fey was ranked third in importance behind John Belushi and Eddie Murphy. They credited her with salvaging Update from a decade long losing streak, and slapping SNL out of its late nineties coma. Rock 2. 00. 62. In 2. Fey suggested a pilot episode for a situation comedy about a cable news network to NBC, which rejected it. The pilot was reworked to revolve around an SNL style series, and was accepted by NBC. She signed a contract with NBC in May 2. SNL as head writer at least through the 2. As part of the contract, Fey was to develop a prime time project to be produced by Broadway Video and NBC Universal. The pilot, directed by Adam Bernstein,4. Liz Lemon, the head writer of a variety show on NBC, and how she managed her relationships with the shows volatile stars and the new head of the network. In October 2. 00.