sketch comedy
series Saturday Night Live
(SNL), the NBC comedy series 30 Rock
, and films such as Mean Girls
(2004) and Baby Mama
(2008).
Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City
. She then joined SNL as a writer, later becoming head writer and a performer, known for her position as co-anchor in the Weekend Update
segment.
(Typical signoff) Goodnight, and have a pleasant tomorrow.
Despite explosive violence in the West Bank this week, negotiators remain hopeful that a U.S.-sponsored summit could end the conflict. Israeli and Palestinian officials say they are eager to sign an agreement so they can dip it in gasoline, light it on fire and throw it at each other.
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is once again expressing outrage at an art exhibit, this time at a painting in which Jesus is depicted as a naked woman. Said the mayor, "This trash is not the sort of thing that I want to look at when I go to the museum with my mistress."
It was announced that Ricky Martin|Ricky Martin will perform at the Lincoln Memorial as part of George W. Bush|President Bush's inauguration. Apparently, Mr. Bush's first step in restoring the dignity of the presidency is having a soap star sing "She Bangs" at the foot of the Abraham Lincoln|Great Emancipator.