Then she lost 30 pounds, fixed her hair, put on a pair of hot-teacher glasses, and made her name throwing lightning-bolt zingers on “Weekend Update.” Speeding through the comedy galaxy, she wrote the hit Mean Girls and created her own show based on an S.N.L.-type show: 30 Rock.
Then she retreated backstage at S.N.L., wore a ski hat, and gained weight writing sharp, funny jokes and eating junk food. pal Colin Quinn dubbed Tina Fey “Herman the German.” She’s a sprite with a Rommel battle plan.Įlizabeth Stamatina Fey started as a writer and performer with a bad short haircut in Chicago improv. That industry needs to die, by all of us being a little bit better than that.” “I love using that idea for comedy, but the idea of actually going there? I feel like we all need to be better than that. “I love to play strippers and to imitate them,” says Fey. I mention that in the pilot of 30 Rock Liz Lemon puts on a Laura Bush–style pink suit from her show-within-a-show’s wardrobe department to go to lunch with Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), to try to sign him, and he takes her to a strip club in the Bronx, where she gets drunk and dances onstage with a stripper named Charisma. “It didn’t go great when you came back, did it? I was very angry. We ate chicken, really good pasta.”Īnd Fey still recoils. (He composed the bouncy retro theme music.) Richmond still reassures her, all these years later: “Nothing happened. (“We walked into a model of the human heart,” Fey deadpans.) The writer-comedian and the musician-director dated for seven years, have been married for another seven, and have worked together in improv theater in Chicago, on Saturday Night Live, and on 30 Rock. They fell in love quickly, soon after a Sunday afternoon spent together at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Their conversation is woven with intimacy, the easy banter of a couple who knew each other long before fame hit. “‘We’ll go to this strip club ironically.’ I was like, ‘The fuck you will.”’ “‘-over to the Doll House,”’ Fey finishes. “When we were first dating,” he says, harking back to Chicago in 1994, “some of the guys at Second City said, ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be a hoot if we go over-”’ And they’re hiding a horrifying secret.Richmond wades in. I like nice people."Ī Cleaning Expert Explains the Best Way to Clean Cloth Face Masks After You Wear Them - Good Housekeepingģ5 Delicious Pantry Recipes That Use What's Already in Your Cabinets and Freezer - Good Housekeeping I don’t have that kind of ‘I love the bad guys’ thing. In the same interview, Tina added: "I don’t enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. "And she has her principles and she sticks to her principles more than anybody I’ve ever met in my life."
Just looking at examples from other people’s lives, we know that anything like that, messing around, is just such a complete ‘No’ to her," he told the magazine. "Like, we never had to deal with any of this, but: adultery. When asked back in 2008 about their marriage, Jeff told Vanity Fair that he and Tina enjoy a marriage that is "borderline boring - in a good way." Today, the couple continues to thrive and will soon hit the 20th anniversary milestone.