When she got the news about the SNL job, friends from Second City took Tina out for a celebratory dinner at Wishbone. In 1994, she joined the cast of The Second City, where she performed eight shows a week, for two years.ġ6. More like coffeehouses than actual comedy clubs,” she has said.ġ5. Tina did some stand-up work while living in Chicago. A few of them were obviously mentally disturbed,” she has said.ġ4.
They were these discarded men some had been kicked out of the house by their wives, some were old men who didn’t have a family to stay with anymore. “I was always fascinated by the guys who lived there. Tina paid for her classes at Second City by working at the Evanston YMCA, working at the front desk. She was made head writer two years later - a first for a female.ġ3. He’s also the one who hired her at SNL when she was 27. Adam McKay taught Tina’s first improv class in Chicago at Second City. She ended up enrolling in improv classes at Second City instead.ġ2. After graduating from UVA, Tina headed to Chicago, where she had planned to attend graduate school at DePaul University. (She had previously played the role of Frenchie in her high school’s production of Grease.)ġ1. Tina - who says she hung out with the “art weirdos” in college -played the role of Sally Bowles in a student production of Cabaret at the University of Virginia. When she was still a kid, he competed in a Steve Martin impersonation contest in Philadelphia.ġ0. Tina’s brother Peter is eight years older than her. Tina has said that she “remained a virgin well into my 20s.”ĩ. She had an anonymous satirical column in her high school paper, The Acorn, under the byline “The Colonel.”Ĩ. But also, I don’t think we should discount the fact that unplucked eyebrows and short hair with a perm may not have been the best offering, either,” she has said.ħ.
“I really didn’t have very many dates at all. There, she did an independent-study project on comedy in the 8th grade where she read up on guys like Joe E. Tina attended Beverly Hills Middle School, which is in Upper Darby, a township outside of Philadelphia. Tina was not allowed to watch The Flinstones as a kid because her dad said it was a rip off of The Honeymooners.ĥ. That’s why she has a scar on her left cheek and favors her other side when acting.Ĥ. When Tina was five, she was attacked by a stranger in her front yard. She is half German (her dad’s side) and half Greek (her mom’s side).ģ.
Tina’s full name: Elizabeth Stamatina Fey.Ģ.
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