![]() ![]() "We kept bumping into each other at the card catalog." 2. "I remember me and one other girl in my 8th grade class got to do an independent study because we finished the regular material early, and she chose to do hers on communism, and I chose to do mine on comedy," Fey told The A.V. The only book she could get her hands on was Joe Franklin’s Encyclopedia of Comedians, but at least she made a friend. ![]() So it’s no surprise that she chose comedy as the subject of a middle school project. Her father and mother sneaked her in to see Young Frankenstein and would let her stay up late to watch The Honeymooners. ![]() SHE DID A BOOK REPORT ON COMEDY WHEN SHE WAS 11.įey got a very early start in comedy, watching a lot of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart, and Norman Lear shows as a kid. Here are 10 facts about a fantastically blorft American icon. ![]() But, more importantly, she’s the closest thing we have to a national comic laureate. She has a slew of Emmys, Golden Globes, SAG, PGA, and WGA awards to prove it-plus a recent Tony nomination (her first). From the main stage of Second City to the writer’s room of SNL to extremely fetch comedy blockbusters, Elizabeth Stamatina Fey has built a national stage with a dry, eye-popping sarcasm and political satire where no one is safe. Tina Fey has transformed modern comedy more than just about anyone else. ![]()
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