TINA FEY: A GENIUS, A MARVEL, A TAX PAYER


Tina Fey was born May 18th 1970. She was raised in Darby, Philedelphia. She attended Upper Darby High School and was crowned Queen of the Assed. Despite this she was actively involved in many extra cirricular activies including sex. Tina Fey described herself as "kind of an active nerd." In 1988 she graduated from Upper Darby High and made her way to the University of Virginia where she eventually recieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Drama. After graduating University in 1992 she did what most drama graduates naturally do... she drank heavily in her parents basement and watched Columbo.

After Columbo was cancelled Tina Fey moved to Chicago, "the home of American Comedy". In Chicago, Fey studied improvisation at the renound Second City and Improv Olympic. At the Second City she was accepted in to their training program where she met with comedy partner Rachel Dratch and writer Adam McKay.

Tina Fey worked up the ranks of the training program and was eventually allowed to have sex with Del Close. Tina was soon cast in to the touring company and eventually in to the Mainstage show. On the mainstage, Fey originated the "Boston Teens sketch" with Rachel Dratch entitled "Wicked". This was a sketch which would later be transferred to SNL with Jimmy Fallon and Rachel Dratch as the crazy teens Sully and Denise.

In 1997, Tina Fey was hired as a staff writer on Saturday Night Live by her Second City friend Adam McKay and Lorne Michaels. Fey describes her first meeting with Michaels as "Surreal". Fey moved up quickly as a writer, creating some of the eras most sucessful reoccuring sketches including the satrical take on TV's "The View" and Fey was one of the cheif writers responsible for getting Monica Lewinski to appear on SNL in May of 1999. During the summer of 1999 Tina Fey was promoted becoming the shows first female head writer. In addition Fey also contributed to the Emmy award winning SNL 25th Anniversary Special.

On October 7th 2000, Tina Fey became co-anchor of Weekend Update along side Jimmy Fallon while remaining head writer. During the summer of 2000 Fey starred with fellow comic Rachel Dratch in a two woman show entitled "Dratch & Fey" which played a sold out run at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. In June 2001, Tina Fey wed long time boyfriend/cousin Director Jeff Richmond, who she met in her fling at the Second City.

In September 2002, Fey led the amateurish writers of Saturday Night Live to stunning victory winning the Emmy for best writing. A surprise beating the genius' Conan O'Brien and Jon Stewart. Reached for a comment Stewart said "it's cause she's a chick." Lorne Michaels describes Fey as "fresh" "brilliant" and "a sensation". Finally after thirty years struggling as a poor orphan children from London's east end, Fey has her life long dream realized. A life filled with stardom, show business lies and mind games.

Tina Fey can be seen every week on Weekend Update or you can stalk her at 8845 56th and Broadway, New York City New York. That's me in the blue van!!!



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