She occurs as cast member and co-head writer of Saturday Night Live. As of September 2005, she is on maternity leave having given birth to a girl, Alice Xenobia Richmond. She says she hopes to exist when back to work on SNL when soon as imaginable.

Early years
She was natural Elizabeth Stamatina Fey in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, in what was a preponderantly Greek-American and Italian American neighborhood. Her brother Peter remembers the drawing she did once she was astir 7: it showed humans holding paws, walking down the street sustaining wedges of Swiss cheese. A caption understand, "What a friend we have in cheeses!" [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031103fa_fact]

Fey was contaminated to comedy early, locution: She exposed drama at a University of Virginia, graduating in 1992. When graduation, she moved to Chicago, getting the job at a residential YMCA by day so she can choose classes at The Second City by night. She learned that a key to improvisation was to "focus entirely on your partner. You take what they're giving you and use it to build a scene." [http://www.believermag.com/issues/november_2003/tina_fey.htm] By 1994 she was invited to join the cast of The 2nd City, in which she performed in the Jeff Award-winning revue Paradigm Lost. She is besides the veteran of The ImprovOlympic.

Saturday Night Live
Sustaining so-head writer Adam McKay's help, Fey became the writer for NBC's Saturday Night Survive (SNL) inside 1997. Within 1999, Fey became SNL's number 1 female head writer, a milestone she downplays pointing retired how else pack head writers the indicate has got.

Okay, co-head writer, she won the 2001 Writers Guild of America Award for the show's 25th anniversary special; she and a rest of the writing staff won an Emmy in 2002 for their work on the indicate.

SNL sketches
A few recurring sketches written by Fey include: Parodies of Live with Regis and Kelly and The View Parodies of the Sharon Osbourne Show, cowritten by Amy Poehler A Girl by using There is no Gaydar, cowritten by Rachel Dratch Boston Teens, cowritten by Dratch She is likewise credited by owning: Colonel Angus, portrayed by Christopher Walken in a sketch filled by owning word play on the colonel's name Mom Jeans commercial "Talkin 'Bout 'Ginas" (Parody of The Vagina Monologues)

Weekend Update
Inside 2000 Fey and Jimmy Fallon became co-anchors of ''SNL's Weekend Update'', a pairing that ended in May 2004 when Fallon made his last appearance as a cast member. She at present helms a satiric newscast by owning Amy Poehler.

Fey's primary role in Weekend Upgrade is when performing artist, since virtually all of the writing for even the section is handle triplet or quaternary writers dedicated to the project.

Other work
She partnered by using fellow cast member Rachel Dratch in the critically acclaimed two-woman indicate Dratch & Fey at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, and the Chicago Improv Festival. Lorne Michaels saw her at one of the performances, which led to her becoming the co-anchor of ''SNL's Weekend Update.

She likewise appeared around Martin & Orloff'', a surreal comedy which premiered at Austin's SXSW.

Fey wrote a script & co-starred in the 2004 movie Mean Girls. Characters & behaviors in the picture show come according to Fey's high school life at Upper Darby High School and on the non-fiction book Queen Bees & Aspirant: Helping Your computers Daughter Endure Cliques, Gossip, Young man, and More Realities of Adolescence (ISBN 0609609459) by Rosalind Wiseman. A cast includes more present & preceding cast members of SNL including Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer, and Amy Poehler.

She is likewise getting the sitcom for NBC and Broadway Video, with Lorne Michaels and two previous producers of The Tracy Morgan Show, David Miner and Joann Alfano. She'll write & star in the sitcom, said to exist as according to her lives at SNL. These are tentatively entitled Friday Nighttime Bits; the casting call for the pilot describe characters such as the network executive, section producer, staff writer, Paris Hilton-like helper, & the Clay Aiken-like home yielding tours of the sets.