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bitch is the new black you know done
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning more about the life and
career of Tina Fey hi Elizabeth stammen
Tina Fey was born May 18 1970 in a
Philadelphia Pennsylvania suburb her
interest in comedy developed thanks to
comedy troupes like Monty Python and the
not-ready-for-prime-time players
but her aspirations were almost derailed
when she was slashed in the face by a
knife wielding stranger at age five
after years as a self-described nerd in
school fate graduated with a drama
degree from the University of Virginia
in 1992 she then shipped off to Chicago
to follow her comedy dreams she enrolled
at the famed second city training center
where she honed her writing and
performing skills used to watch hockey
with Mania neighborhood children enjoy
it by 1994 she was part of their cast
and soon she was also a member of The
Upright Citizens Brigade improv troupe
alongside Amy Poehler when Saturday
Night Live visited the Windy City
looking for new blood Tina Fey stood out
in 1997 the show’s creator Lorne
Michaels gave her a writing job so she
moved to New York to work at 30
Rockefeller Plaza as one of only three
female SNL writers at the time by 1999
the show’s head writer stepped down and
Fey was tapped for the position 25 plus
years of Saturday Night Live
you are the first female head writer
when I was in Chicago when we right
before I went to the Second City I heard
oh that place is the boys club it’s
horrible horrible and when I got there
my experience was it was not that bad as
the first woman to hold the show’s top
job she was praised for reviving SNL
after what some called a lackluster
decade meanwhile they partnered with
co-star Rachel Dratch for a successful
two woman off-broadway show a 30 pound
weight loss and a makeover later Fey was
appearing on TV more and more in 2000
she donned a blue blazer and her
trademark eyewear to spout witty sarcasm
next to Jimmy Fallon as a Weekend Update
anchor the Food and Drug Administration
will decide next week whether to allow
the so-called morning-after
contraceptive pill to be sold
over-the-counter no not till next week I
don’t know I guess we’re gonna have this
baby the next year she married fellow
second city alum Jeff Richmond and
earned a Writers Guild of America Award
for her work on the SNL 25th anniversary
special in 2003 she was honored in a
different way by People magazine when
she was named one of their 50 most
beautiful people by 2004 Fallon left
Saturday Night Live and was replaced at
the Update desk by Amy Poehler the
pairing of Poehler and Fey marked the
first time two women formed the update
team fate up the girl power factor more
that year by writing and acting in the
hugely successful semi autobiographical
film Mean Girls Bailey in 2006 they left
SNL to work full time on the NBC show
she was creating based on her
experiences there and her relationship
with mentor Lorne Michaels 30 rock
debuted in October that year and was a
critical smash thanks to exceptional
casting and sharp writing do you think
this is where I wanted to end up I had
dreams I was gonna live with the
gorillas it won the Emmy for Outstanding
Comedy Series in its first season the
show won again the next year and Fey
raked in awards for acting and writing
despite these victories the show
struggled to attract viewers 2008 proved
to be a huge year for Tina Fey not only
did her unmatched chemistry with Amy
Poehler make it to the big screen and
baby mama Angie I’m gonna put my baby
inside you
they also used her physical similarities
to Republican vice-presidential
candidate Sarah Palin to do a
pitch-perfect impersonation on SNL when
we don’t know if this climate change
who’s he what’s it is man-made or if
it’s just a natural part of the end of
days but I’m not going to talk about
that I would like to talk about Texas
because with Barack Obama you’re gonna
be paying higher taxes but not with me
and my fellow maverick we are not afraid
to get maverick II in there and not got
to allow that and also to the great
Ronald Reagan that spot boosted the show
and her career even further by nabbing
her another Emmy the next year she
joined Ricky Gervais in the invention of
lying and in 2010 Fey and Steve Carell
were a match made in comedy heaven in
date night that year she also lent her
voice to Megamind I was just well I was
talking to myself you probably think I’m
a little bit nuts which became one of
her most commercially successful
projects but Faye’s biggest honor in
2010 was winning the Mark Twain prize
for American humor as 30 rock soldier
Don face struck gold in 2011 with her
autobiography bossy pants in addition
she landed a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame and was named by Forbes as TVs
highest-paid actress it was also
announced that year that fame would play
another single 40-something working
woman in 2013’s admission on top of her
countless awards Faye has been named one
of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential
people she is a successful spokesperson
charity advocate and working mother but
most importantly Tina Fey helped prove
that smart and funny is sexy so just
keep succeeding ladies things are hard
enough for women as it is for example on
my way here today I had to stop and get
my leg and pubic hair ripped out so that
I could wear a hooker costume later in a
sketch that won’t even air
[Music]
bitch is the new black you know done
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning more about the life and
career of Tina Fey hi Elizabeth stammen
Tina Fey was born May 18 1970 in a
Philadelphia Pennsylvania suburb her
interest in comedy developed thanks to
comedy troupes like Monty Python and the
not-ready-for-prime-time players
but her aspirations were almost derailed
when she was slashed in the face by a
knife wielding stranger at age five
after years as a self-described nerd in
school fate graduated with a drama
degree from the University of Virginia
in 1992 she then shipped off to Chicago
to follow her comedy dreams she enrolled
at the famed second city training center
where she honed her writing and
performing skills used to watch hockey
with Mania neighborhood children enjoy
it by 1994 she was part of their cast
and soon she was also a member of The
Upright Citizens Brigade improv troupe
alongside Amy Poehler when Saturday
Night Live visited the Windy City
looking for new blood Tina Fey stood out
in 1997 the show’s creator Lorne
Michaels gave her a writing job so she
moved to New York to work at 30
Rockefeller Plaza as one of only three
female SNL writers at the time by 1999
the show’s head writer stepped down and
Fey was tapped for the position 25 plus
years of Saturday Night Live
you are the first female head writer
when I was in Chicago when we right
before I went to the Second City I heard
oh that place is the boys club it’s
horrible horrible and when I got there
my experience was it was not that bad as
the first woman to hold the show’s top
job she was praised for reviving SNL
after what some called a lackluster
decade meanwhile they partnered with
co-star Rachel Dratch for a successful
two woman off-broadway show a 30 pound
weight loss and a makeover later Fey was
appearing on TV more and more in 2000
she donned a blue blazer and her
trademark eyewear to spout witty sarcasm
next to Jimmy Fallon as a Weekend Update
anchor the Food and Drug Administration
will decide next week whether to allow
the so-called morning-after
contraceptive pill to be sold
over-the-counter no not till next week I
don’t know I guess we’re gonna have this
baby the next year she married fellow
second city alum Jeff Richmond and
earned a Writers Guild of America Award
for her work on the SNL 25th anniversary
special in 2003 she was honored in a
different way by People magazine when
she was named one of their 50 most
beautiful people by 2004 Fallon left
Saturday Night Live and was replaced at
the Update desk by Amy Poehler the
pairing of Poehler and Fey marked the
first time two women formed the update
team fate up the girl power factor more
that year by writing and acting in the
hugely successful semi autobiographical
film Mean Girls Bailey in 2006 they left
SNL to work full time on the NBC show
she was creating based on her
experiences there and her relationship
with mentor Lorne Michaels 30 rock
debuted in October that year and was a
critical smash thanks to exceptional
casting and sharp writing do you think
this is where I wanted to end up I had
dreams I was gonna live with the
gorillas it won the Emmy for Outstanding
Comedy Series in its first season the
show won again the next year and Fey
raked in awards for acting and writing
despite these victories the show
struggled to attract viewers 2008 proved
to be a huge year for Tina Fey not only
did her unmatched chemistry with Amy
Poehler make it to the big screen and
baby mama Angie I’m gonna put my baby
inside you
they also used her physical similarities
to Republican vice-presidential
candidate Sarah Palin to do a
pitch-perfect impersonation on SNL when
we don’t know if this climate change
who’s he what’s it is man-made or if
it’s just a natural part of the end of
days but I’m not going to talk about
that I would like to talk about Texas
because with Barack Obama you’re gonna
be paying higher taxes but not with me
and my fellow maverick we are not afraid
to get maverick II in there and not got
to allow that and also to the great
Ronald Reagan that spot boosted the show
and her career even further by nabbing
her another Emmy the next year she
joined Ricky Gervais in the invention of
lying and in 2010 Fey and Steve Carell
were a match made in comedy heaven in
date night that year she also lent her
voice to Megamind I was just well I was
talking to myself you probably think I’m
a little bit nuts which became one of
her most commercially successful
projects but Faye’s biggest honor in
2010 was winning the Mark Twain prize
for American humor as 30 rock soldier
Don face struck gold in 2011 with her
autobiography bossy pants in addition
she landed a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame and was named by Forbes as TVs
highest-paid actress it was also
announced that year that fame would play
another single 40-something working
woman in 2013’s admission on top of her
countless awards Faye has been named one
of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential
people she is a successful spokesperson
charity advocate and working mother but
most importantly Tina Fey helped prove
that smart and funny is sexy so just
keep succeeding ladies things are hard
enough for women as it is for example on
my way here today I had to stop and get
my leg and pubic hair ripped out so that
I could wear a hooker costume later in a
sketch that won’t even air
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