Tina Fey isn’t always truthful with her kids when it comes to her writing credits.
During a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the Saturday Night Live alum, 54, admitted there are times when her kids aren’t impressed with certain episodes of the long-running sketch comedy show — leading her to deny her affiliation with some sketches.
The conversation began with Clarkson, 43, asking her guests Fey and fellow former SNL star Will Forte if they get “anxious” about returning to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where both shows air from.
“I was really lucky ‘cause I came in as a writer,’ ” Fey said of her start.
She began in 1997 as an SNL writer, before being promoted to head writer in 1999. In 2000, Fey shifted to a cast member, appearing in “Weekend Update” until she left the show in 2006.
However, that doesn’t mean she’s 100% proud of everything she had a hand in while working there.
“I have the opposite thing, which is I have so many ones that aired that I wish had not,” Fey said in response to one of Forte’s favorite pitches.
“On Peacock, they show old, random-ordered sketches from SNL on the SNL channel,” she explained. “Sometimes ones have come up that my kids are like, ‘What is this?’ And I fully wrote it, and I’m like, ‘I don’t know. That’s so stupid, right?’ ”
Fey shares two daughters — Alice Zenobia Richmond, 19, and Penelope Athena Richmond, 13 — with her husband, composer and producer Jeff Richmond. Her girls have each acted in their mother’s sitcoms.
The 30 Rock creator has also opened up in the past about how her daughters have shaped the way her most famous projects have panned out.
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“Sometimes I would run things by the kids,” Fey told Entertainment Tonight at the New York City premiere of her 2024 film adaptation of the Mean Girls musical. “Like casting, or you know, like, ‘Should the burn book stay a book, or should it be a private Instagram account?’ And they’re like, ‘No, it’s a book, it’s a book.’ ”
During a 2018 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Fey told her former “Weekend Update” coanchor that Alice was also a budding filmmaker. The Baby Mama movie star even shared a short film called Butt Show created by her two children. “They sold it to Netflix,” Fey joked at the time.
Fey and Forte, 54, star in the Netflix comedy series The Four Seasons along with Steve Carell and Colman Domingo.
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