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Tina Fey is in her fifth season as an on-air performer on Saturday Night Live and serves as a co-anchor in the "Weekend Update" segment. Fey came to "SNL" in 1997 from Chicago's Second City Comedy club, where she was a writer and performer. In 1999 she was named "SNL's" head writer. Along with the rest of the writing staff, she received a 2002 Emmy Award and Writer's Guild Award nomination. Her most popular recurring sketches include "Sully and Denise;" the commercial parody "Mom Jeans;" and the "Old French Whore." She also served as head writer for the Emmy Award-winning special "Saturday Night Live - The 25th Anniversary." During the summer of 2000 she teamed up with Rachel Dratch to produce the critically praised sketch comedy show "Dratch & Fey" at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. In 2001 Entertainment Weekly named her an Entertainer of the Year. Fey's most recent project was the 2004 hit comedy "Mean Girls," a story she adapted from Rosalind Wiseman's non-fiction book, Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolescence.
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