Tina Fey

Came out of Chicagos famed Second City comedy troupe, where she was a writer-performer.

Is the first-ever female head writer of "Saturday Night Live" .

Was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as the #8 Entertainer of the Year for 2001.

Has one brother: Peter Fey, who is 8 years older than Tina.

Her husband, Jeff Richmond is a Second City director. Thats how they met. He is ten years older than she is.

As a head writer for "Saturday Night Live" she has written the Old French Whore, The View, Sully and Denise and the Monica Lewinsky skits, among many, many others.

Her paternal grandfather, Heinrich "Henry" Fey, was the son of German immigrants, and her paternal grandmother, Mildred Ada (Ritchie), had English, German, and Northern Irish ancestry. Tinas mother is Greek, born in Piraeus, to Constantine "Gus" Xenakes and Vasiliki Kourelakos.

Was voted one of People magazines 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.

Told Bust magazine in 2004 that she considers herself a feminist.

In her first session as a member of the "Saturday Night Live" writing staff, the 54" Tina found discovered that she was a foot shorter than the mostly male writing staff, and felt for a while as if she had shrunk.

Attended and graduated from Upper Darby High School in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania.

Received her Bachelors degree in drama from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Recorded the voices for the British and German princesses for Williams "Medieval Madness" pinball machine.

Is an alumna of the Famous Improv Olympic, along with actors Vince Vaughn , the late Chris Farley , Ossie Beck , Mike Myers , Amy Poehler and Adam McKay.

Close friends with fellow "Saturday Night Live" cast member Amy Poehler.

Is often compared to Nana Mouskouri , to whom she bears a striking resemblance. This may be due to both womens common Greek ancestry and the fact that they both have black-rimmed glasses as their trademark.

Born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, the same town in which "Saturday Night Live" alumna Cheri Oteri (a cast member when Fey was writing on SNL) grew up.

(June 2008) Rated the hottest woman for 2008, after having improved from last years 7th place according to Afterellen.coms "2008 Hot 100 List", a compilation of 100 Hot women voted in by the LGBTQ community.

Her hometown, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, is also where Todd Rundgren grew up. They both had the same algebra teacher, although 20 years apart.

Regarding the scar on Feys left cheek, in an interview in Vanity Fair, husband Jeff Richmond says a stranger slashed Feys face when she was five years old. He says the incident occurred in the front yard of her house.

Is a huge fan of the Star Wars movies and often uses references to the movies in her roles and writing.

Revealed in an interview that she did not lose her virginity until she was 24 years old. She also revealed that she was a virgin when she met her husband, and that he is the only man she has ever been intimate with.

Recipient of the 2010 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, given annually by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Is semi-fluent in German. She says about herself that she speaks "less than first-grade" German.

Returned to work one month after giving birth to her daughter Alice in order to resume filming "Saturday Night Live" .

Was 4 months pregnant with her daughter Penelope when she took maternity leave from filming "30 Rock" .

Returned to work 2 months after giving birth to her daughter Penelope to resume filming "30 Rock" .

Was the youngest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize.

Wrote a remake of Bye Bye Birdie that was to be directed by Jon M. Chu. But the project was canceled due to budget concerns.

Gave birth to her first child at age 35, a daughter Alice Zenobia Richmond on September 10, 2005. Childs father is her husband, Jeff Richmond.

Gave birth to her second child at age 41, a daughter Penelope Athena Richmond on August 10, 2011. Childs father is her husband, Jeff Richmond.

Can improvise certain parts of Tracy Morgans speech and personality.

She is left-handed.

Her and her cousin were mistaken for prostitutes in a casino while on vacation in Monaco.

[on her six-week maternity leave] I had to get back to work. . . NBC has,me under contract; the baby and I only have a verbal agreement.

Her hair is like a Fraggle.

5, that would be good for me.

I studied the usual acting methods at college - Stanislavsky and whatnot,but none of it really clicked for me. At the Second City, I learnt that,your focus should be entirely on your partner. Suddenly, it all made,sense.

[on wearing a Princess Leia costume for a,"Saturday Night Live" (1975) sketch] You put that costume and,that wig on and nerds go bananas. People were just staring at me in the,hall, all these extras and background people and nerds wanted to talk,to me all of a sudden. Guys have a real weird thing for that outfit.

[her 2009 Emmy Award acceptance speech] Mrs. Palin is an inspiration to,working mothers everywhere because she bailed on her job right before,Fourth of July weekend. You are living my dream. Thank you, Mrs. Palin!,Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry. ” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.

Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.

My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,” my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn’t even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald’s food turns into cold nonfood.

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of course —those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape ‘kit ‘n’ stuff, But for everybody else, it’s a win-win. Unless you’re a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years - whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know - actually, I take it back. The whole thing’s a disaster.

Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.

When did you first feel like a grown woman and not a girl?” We wrote down our answers and shared them, first in pairs, then in larger groups. The group of women was racially and economically diverse, but the answers had a very similar theme. Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. “I was walking home from ballet and a guy in a car yelled, ‘Lick me!’” “I was babysitting my younger cousins when a guy drove by and yelled, ‘Nice ass. ’” There were pretty much zero examples like “I first knew I was a woman when my mother and father took me out to dinner to celebrate my success on the debate team. ” It was mostly men yelling shit from cars. Are they a patrol sent out to let girls know they’ve crossed into puberty? If so, it’s working.

My unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do? If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you. If the answer is yes, you have a more difficult road ahead of you. I suggest you model your strategy after the old Sesame Street film piece, "Over! Under! Through!” (If you’re under forty, you might not remember this film. It taught the concepts of, “over,” and “under,” and “through” by filming toddlers crawling around an abandoned construction site. They don’t show it anymore because someone has since realized that’s nuts. ) If your boss is a jerk, try to find someone above or around your boss who is not a jerk. If you’re lucky, your workplace will have a neutral proving ground- like the rifle range or a car sales total board or the SNL read-through. If so, focus on that. Again, don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions. Go “Over! Under! Through!” and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.

We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing.

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?,Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.

Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury.

Lots of teenage girls have taken comfort under the wings of half-closeted gay boys.

In improv there are no mistakes, only beautiful happy accidents. And many of the world’s greatest discoveries have been by accident.

It’s a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it…You have to let people see what you wrote.

Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity,I was walking home alone from school and I was wearing a dress. A dude drove by and yelled, "Nice tits. " Embarrassed and enraged, I screamed after him, "Suck my dick.

So, to sum up my room-clearing generalizations, men are in comedy to break rules.

You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.

Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.

And when she [her daughter] one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister, Give me the strength, Lord, to yank her directly into a cab in front of her friends,For I will not have that Shit. I will not have it.

It is a testament to my parents that they never reacted negatively to the four-year-long pride parade that marched through their house.

One family, two impressively gay brothers.

Because, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, I was embraced by the gays. They loved me and praised me. I was funny and so mean and mature for my age!,I find, the fancier the fashion magazine is, the worse the Photoshop. It’s as if they are already so disgusted that a human has to be in the clothes, they can’t stop erasing human features.

Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff.

There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

There are different types of fancy photographers. Some are big, fun personalities like Mario Testino, who once told me, “Lift your chin, darling, you are not eighteen. ” I enjoyed his honesty. Also, I’m pretty sure he says that to models who are nineteen.

As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that. ” “No, that’s not in the budget. ” “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar. ” What kind of way is that to live?,It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel when they realize those boobs they like have heads attached to them.

I would not trade any of these features for anybody else’s. I wouldn’t trade the small thin-lipped mouth that makes me resemble my nephew. I wouldn’t even trade the acne scar on my right cheek, because that recurring zit spent more time with me in college than any boy ever did.

I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about. .