Tina Fey: From Mean Girl to Trailblazer | 269

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Tina Fey sure does wear the (Bossy)pants. As she navigates the treacherous, male dominated waters of the comedy world, Tina quickly ascends up the ranks at the legendary (and notoriously cutthroat) comedy institution, “Saturday Night Live.” But that’s not enough for this self-proclaimed former theater nerd and Sarah Palin lookalike. After reaching a pinnacle that most performers can only dream of, and making history at SNL, she leaves. And follows up her success there with a string of successful TV shows (“30 Rock,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”) and movies (“Baby Mama,” “Mean Girls”) that establish her as one of Hollywood’s true comedy forces.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of Even the Rich before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:13.3	Brooke, what's one of your personal mottos or mantras?
0:17.7	God.
0:18.8	Do I have one?
0:20.2	You have so many. I know. I mean, fuck around and find out. It's a good one.
0:24.7	Mm. It's not wake and bake? Well, that's just, is that a motto? That's just a lifestyle.
0:29.8	I feel like lifestyles are mottos. Okay, well then, yeah, wake and bake. Smoke one if you got them.
0:35.0	So today's subject lives by one tiny word.
0:38.1	Yes.
0:39.0	In fact, that three-letter word becomes the foundation for her powerhouse career.
0:44.2	She's broken barriers at Saturday Night Live as not only the first female headwriter there,
0:48.9	but also one half of the show's first and only female weekend update co-anchor team.
0:54.4	Yeah. She's co-hosted the Golden Globes and only female weekend update co-anchor team. Yeah.
0:54.9	She's co-hosted the Golden Globes and created and starred in the critically acclaimed sitcom 30 Rock.
1:01.1	She's also written and appeared in several hit films.
1:03.8	Her name has become synonymous with comedy, and she's opened the doors for future generations of funny women.
1:09.9	Today, we're talking about
1:11.5	Tina Fey. It's 1997. Tina Fey is stuffing her life into cardboard boxes, prepping a move from
1:22.4	Chicago to New York City to work on Saturday Night Live when she sees an orange folder
1:26.9	collecting dust on a bookshelf.
1:29.2	It's a physical reminder of her time at the Second City, which is the comedy mecca that's launched
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