Their repartee included Clinton needling Palin about her “Tina Fey glasses”. On the 34th-season premiere episode, aired September 13, 2008, Fey imitated Palin in a sketch, alongside Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton.

Fey created the musical adaptation Mean Girls, which premiered on Broadway in 2018, and earned her a Tony Award nomination.įrom September to November 2008, Fey made multiple guest appearances on SNL to perform a series of parodies of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. In 2015, she co-created the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. In 2011, she released her memoir, Bossypants, which topped The New York Times Best Seller list for five weeks and garnered her a Grammy Award nomination. In the series, Fey starred as Liz Lemon, the head writer of a fictional sketch comedy series. 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 then joined 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. This time, she gets to be the train wreck.” In 30 Rock, Fey’s comedic acting was influenced by both physical and improvisational comedy while, as a writer, her “carefully written scripts” were often quirky and character-driven.įey broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City. Fey … as an anxious overthinker using her caustic sarcasm as a weapon against both her own insecurities and the flakes and train wrecks who surround her. The Boston Globe’s Janice Paige defended her limited filmography by writing that, unlike most film actors, Fey remains “realistic about her range as a leading lady and says she’s been deliberate about only taking on parts for which she actually seems suited.” Fey explained that she approaches each role asking herself, “Would I be plausible in this role, in this job?” However, her role as Kate Ellis in 2015’s Sisters provided Fey with an opportunity to stray from playing the type-A female characters for which she has become known. As an actress, Fey has developed a reputation for portraying “the hilarious, self-deprecating unmarried career woman” in most of her films to-date.

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