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Tina Fey
Liz Lemon’s alter ego attempts to colonize your bedside table this month with her first book, Bossypants. Here, the woman also known as Sarah Palin’s better half ruminates on nervous exhaustion and Catherine the Great’s frisky horse.
Illustration by Risko
May 2011
Answer your own Proust Questionnaire on Facebook.
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What is your current state of mind?
On the verge of nervous exhaustion, but only for the last seven years.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A glass of wine at sunset on Fire Island. / No homework.
What is your greatest fear?
Child, loss or damage thereof.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Catherine the Great’s horse.
Which living person do you most admire?
Cathy Rigby. She was really good in that stage version of Peter Pan. No joke.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Procrastination.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
People who are proud of their ignorance.
What is it that you most dislike?
People who mock education as elitist.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Living in New York City.
What do you most value in your friends?
A willingness to come uptown.
What is your favorite journey?
Pulling up to my parents’ house for Christmas. Just pulling up, though—not the whole drive.
What is your most treasured possession?
A photo of my parents walking around the Acropolis circa 1965. They look like a poster for Two for the Road.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Natural childbirth.
On what occasion do you lie?
During press junkets for movies.
Which living person do you most despise?
Osama bin Laden. Unless we think he’s dead by now, in which case that guy who holds up the GOD HATES **** sign.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Jeff and Alice Richmond equally, but only because they look exactly alike.
When and where were you happiest?
Anywhere, during the 2 to 24 hours after a successful joke.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I would get 30 hours a day when everyone else gets 24.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Providing 200 people with a nice place to work.
If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
My husband and I would work less and my daughter would sleep more.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
September 12, 2001.
What is your favorite occupation?
Being between jobs but having a good one lined up in about a month or so.
What is your most marked characteristic?
Obedience and a long nose. (I might be a collie.)
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Veruca Salt, Francie Nolan, Miss Havisham. That’s me in a nutshell, actually.
How would you like to die?
I would like to drop dead while introducing the “In Memoriam” clip package at the Emmys … on my 10,000th birthday.
What is your motto?
“Stop reaching for the stars!”
Tina Fey speaks onstage at the First Annual Comedy Awards at Hammerstein Ballroom on March 26, 2011 in New York City. (March 25, 20112011-03-25 16:00:00 - Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images North America)
Award winner Tina Fey speaks onstage at the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards at The New York Marriott Marquis on March 19, 2011 in New York City. (March 18, 20112011-03-18 16:00:00 - Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images North America)
Tina Fey has announced that she and her husband Jeff Richmond are expecting their second child.
The 30 Rock actress made the announcement on The Oprah Winfrey show.
The 40-year-old, who is five-months along in her pregnancy, also has a five-year-old daughter Alice.
Fey surprised the talk show host whilst they were discussing her new book, Bossypants, as well as the upcoming Saturday Night Live reunion.
A representative for the comedian confirmed the happy news to People magazine.
Pregnant: Fey has announced that she and her husband Jeff Richmond are expecting their second child![]()
Lately Fey has been slipping into some baggy costumes on the set of 30 Rock to conceal her baby bump.
She also slipped into a concealing black Marc Jacobs dress at The First Annual Comedy Awards late last month.
Tina met her husband at an improv comedy club.
Richmond later became later a composer on SNL and 30 Rock.
She has described him in the past as a ‘a Dudley Moore type, shorter than I am, with a very handsome face’, and says that ‘his kindness and his sense of humour were probably the main things that attracted me. I met him when I was 24 and we’ve been together ever since.
She had her daughter Alice during her nine years on Saturday Night Live.
Tina has talked in the past about juggling motherhood, wife-hood and the extensive demands of 30 Rock.
‘I never really believed it before, but when you have a child, there really aren’t enough hours in the day to do anything,’ she said.
'Basically, any free time that isn’t spent looking after our daughter or working goes on sleeping'
She had said last year that she was unsure about the idea of having more children: ‘I don’t know. I’m 39 now - I’m getting up there!’.
Fey also joins her 30 Rock cast mate Jane Krakowski, who is currently pregnant with her first child.
Jane is due to give birth at the end of this month with her British-born clothing designer fiancé Robert Godley.
Fey's appearance on Oprah is scheduled to air on April 12.
Tina Fey signs copies of "Bossypants" at Barnes & Noble Union Square on April 8, 2011 in New York City. (April 7, 20112011-04-07 16:00:00 - Photo by Jim Spellman/Getty Images North America)
Pregnant Tina Fey shows off her bump for the first time in skintight black dress
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:14 AM on 12th April 2011
After weeks of keeping her pregnancy hidden, Tina Fey has revealed to the world that she is five months pregnant.
And with that she is free to show off the baby bump she has been protecting.
The comedienne proudly showed off her growing stomach as she posed outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre following a recording of the David Letterman show today.
Baby on board: Tina Fey shows off her bump as she leaves the Ed Sullivan Theater following a recording of the David Letterman show![]()
Her black bodycon dress was designed to cling to every curve, and did just that - highlighting the baby growing inside her.
The 40-year-old star was also spotted out yesterday with her composer husband Jeff Richmond, 51, and their daughter, Alice Richmond in New York City.
The 5ft 4in star announced last week that she was having another baby with her 5ft husband of 10 years.
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That's not a food baby: Proud comedienne Tina shows off her bump as she poses in her flattering black dress
New curves: Tina wore a very low cut dress to show off her cleavage![]()
They've been together a total of 17 years and Jeff is the only man she's even been with, having revealed in an interview that she lost her virginity to him aged 24.
Jeff - who appears to be about a foot shorter than his wife in one photo due to perspective - composes all the music for 30 Rock, in which Tina stars as Liz Lemon.
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Tina also revealed last week that she had agonised over whether or not to have a second child.
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She reveals in her autobiography Bossypants that her daughter Alice, five, would say 'I wish I had a baby sister', leaving the star feeling 'stricken with guilt and panic'.
In a excerpt released to America's People magazine, Tina recalls how she would 'debate the second-baby issue' when she couldn't sleep.
She wrote: 'Science shows that fertility and movie offers drop off steeply for women after 40,' she writes.
The former Saturday Night Live star and Emmy winner revealed she went to her gynaecologist for advice.
She continued: 'I went for my annual checkup and, tired of carrying this anxiety around, burst into tears the moment she said hello.'
Family outing: Five months pregnant Tina Fey was out for a stroll with husband Jeff Richmond and their daughter, Alice, in New York yesterday![]()
Funny girl: 30 Rock star Tina has been with Jeff for 17 years![]()
'I laid it all out for her, and the main thing I took away from our conversation was the kind of simple observation that only an impartial third party can provide: "Either way, everything will be fine."'
She concluded: 'What's so great about work anyway? Work won't visit you when you're old. Work won't drive you to get a mammogram and take you out after for soup.'
Tina revealed she is now five months pregnant during a taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show last week.
The interview screens tomorrow, April 12.
Sunny Sunday: The family were enjoying some lovely spring weather on their walk![]()
Working mother: Fey stars alongside Alec Baldwin in hit sitcom 30 Rock![]()