After deciding to become a comedian at a quite young age, Tina began her career through performing shows with improvisational comedy group The Second City but her major career success story began when she joined NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live as a writer where she later became head writer as well as a performer. Check out Simplemost for additional stories.The American comedian, actress, writer and producer, Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born on May 18, 1970.

This story originally appeared on Simplemost. 15 using the code “restless.” General sales start Feb. Tickets will also be available on Ticketmaster, with presale beginning Feb. “If this tour goes right, we can finally end this friendship!” the duo joked in a statement shared with Entertainment Weekly. Since then, they have gone on to lead their own sitcoms (Poehler on “Parks and Recreation” and Fey on “30 Rock”), create hit comedies such as “Mean Girls,” “Baby Mama,” “Sisters” and “ Wine Country” and even co-hosted the Golden Globe Awards four times.įey dedicated a chapter of her memoir, “Bossypants,” to Poehler titled “I Don’t Care If You Like It (One in a series of love letters to Amy Poehler).” It wasn’t long before the two funny ladies made history as the first and only female co-anchors of “SNL”‘s Weekend Update.

Poehler and Fey first met in 1993 at Chicago’s ImprovOlympic (now iO Chicago). Presale begins Wednesday at 10am local with code: CHORUS on JUST ANNOUNCED Tina Fey & Amy Poehler: Restless Leg Tour is celebrating 30 years of friendship! The entertainment company also shared a link for ticket sales. “JUST ANNOUNCED Tina Fey & Amy Poehler: Restless Leg Tour is celebrating 30 years of friendship,” wrote on the tweet, adding, “Presale begins Wednesday at 10am local with code: CHORUS.” Live Nation Comedy, which is producing the tour, shared the news on Twitter. The four-city tour will kick off at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., before heading to the Chicago Theatre, the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, and Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena in Atlantic City. After years of working together on “Saturday Night Live” and many hit movies, the duo is finally taking their show on the road with their Restless Leg Tour. Everyone’s favorite comedic duo and longtime friends Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have just announced that they are embarking on a joint comedy tour.

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