Tina Fey may have burst into the American comedic consciousness barely a decade ago, but it’s been a pretty rich, and very amusing, decade. The Fey Decade and its author got an appropriate tribute Tuesday night at the Kennedy Center.
Some famous friends from both coasts swooped into Washington to hand Fey the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the annual award for a lifetime of creating comedy — or in Fey’s case, as more than one presenter noted, half a lifetime.
There was a parade of Fey highlights: the Weekend Update anchor years on “Saturday Night Live,” the “30 Rock” years, with its witty writing and Oprah walk-ons, Fey’s movies (“Mean Girls” and “Baby Mama”) and, of course, her career-revolutionizing Sarah Palin impersonation.
Fey took in the proceedings from a mezzanine box, surrounded by her parents, husband and old friends. She looked distinctly more glamorous than she did during her “SNL” anchoring days or her stint as a young improv player in the Second City troupe in Chicago. For the occasion, she wore a black Oscar de la Renta cocktail dress and an upstyle hairdo.
“It feels like a [Stanley] Kubrick movie,” she said on the red carpet before the event. She compared the excitement surrounding the event to her wedding, “only the ceilings weren’t this high.”
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