After leaving SNL in 2006, Fey created the television series 30 Rock for Broadway Video, a sitcom loosely based on her experiences at SNL. In 2004, she co-starred in and wrote the screenplay for Mean Girls, which was adapted from the 2002 self-help book Queen Bees and Wannabes. She joined Saturday Night Live ( SNL) as a writer, later becoming head writer and a performer, appearing as co-anchor in the Weekend Update segment and, later, developing a satirical portrayal of 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in subsequent guest appearances. Fey is also known for her work in film, including Mean Girls (2004), Baby Mama (2008), Date Night (2010), Megamind (2010), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Sisters (2015), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016), Wine Country (2019), and Soul (2020).įey broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City. After her departure from SNL, she created the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2006–2013, 2020) and the Netflix sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020), the former of which she also starred in. Fey was a cast member and head writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1997 to 2006. For a long time, Bill Clinton was the most fun, but in this election Sarah Palin was," Fey said.Elizabeth Stamatina " Tina" Fey ( / f eɪ/ born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright. "Week one, they loved it week two, they loved it week three, they loved it-but by week four? My dad was like, "Enough already!" I told him it was just that Governor Palin was the most fun to play. The former SNL star did reveal that her Republican parents initially found the impression funny, though that well ran dry quickly enough. Because she didn't do many interviews during the campaign, SNL was the first to poke a hole in that package," she said.įey and Palin would infamously cross paths on the show, but there was no bad blood between them.
Governor Palin is a dynamic speaker in a prepared setting, and she was carefully packaged at the Republican National Convention. You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at SNL is writing to go after someone. "When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel.
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