Emmy
winner Tina Fey, co-anchor of SNL?s ?Weekend Update? segment, is in her fourth season as an on-air performer on ?Saturday Night
Live.?
Along with co-anchor
Jimmy Fallon,
Fey has won much
acclaim ? including being named
one of
Entertainment Weekly?s 2001 Entertainers of the Year -- for her work on the revitalized ?Update.?
An ?SNL? staff writer since 1997, Fey was named writing supervisor in 1999, making her the first female head writer in the show?s 25-year history. Recurring sketches Fey has penned include the biting satires of ?The View? and the recurring ?Sully and Denise? sketch featuring Jimmy Fallon and Rachel Dratch as the Bostonian teens. Fey also served as head writer for the Emmy Award winning special ?Saturday Night Live ?The 25th Anniversary.?
Fey, co-head writer Dennis McNicholas and the writing staff of SNL were honored with a 2002 Primetime Emmy Award and Writers? Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Variety, Music or Comedy Program.
As an actress and screenwriter, Fey is currently in production on ?Mean Girls? a comedy feature for Paramount Pictures and Broadway Video Motion Pictures which she adapted from Rosalind Wiseman?s talked-about book ?Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolesence.?
In the summer of 2000, Fey joined SNL castmate Rachel Dratch in a critically praised sketch comedy show ?Dratch & Fey? at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City, dubbed ?the funniest thing to be found on any New York comedy stage this summer? by Time Out New York.
Fey came to SNL from Chicago?s famed Second City where she was a writer-performer. Second City has also produced current cast members Rachel Dratch and Horatio Sanz as well as such famed SNL alums as John Belushi, Chris Farley and Bill Murray (among many others). Second City also hosted the first incarnation of ?Dratch & Fey? in the summer of 1999.
