According to Vogue, she even included an Easter egg by ending a riff with her own name during the NBC comedy’s fifth season. The Pennsylvania native later used her birth name as inspiration in creating a moniker for her 30 Rock character, Liz Lemon. Nine Emmy Awards later, Fey is now a household name both for her writing and acting, but here are 10 things you might not know about the comedian: She named '30 Rock’s' Liz Lemon after herselfĪlthough she’s now known to the world as Tina Fey, the actor was born Elizabeth Stamatina Fey in May 1970. With an early admiration for such icons as Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, and Norman Lear, she went on to study with Chicago’s Second City improv comedy troupe before eventually becoming the first female head writer for Saturday Night Live. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old Honeymooners.” My dad wouldn't let us watch The Flintstones if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of The Honeymooners. “My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. “We're all comedy fans in my family,” Fey, who says she watched “a lot of TV” as a kid, once explained to The A.V. Growing up in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, Tina Fey knew by middle school that she wanted to be a comedian.
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