Fey tina6/4/2023 ![]() “Race has been kind of an Achilles’ heel for Fey and Carlock,” critic Alan Sepinwall told me in an interview for The 30 Rock Book, my new behind-the-scenes history of the show. But since its premiere in 2006, and especially in more recent years, the show-and Fey’s work more broadly, particularly her collaborations with 30 Rock co-showrunner Robert Carlock-has been critiqued for the way it treats race and racism. For seven seasons, 30 Rock won the hearts of critics and buckets of Emmys with its absurdist, joke-a-minute style, hyper-specific references, and distinctly female sensibility. It’s a passage that neatly sums up Fey’s comic sensibility, as well as what some believe are her blind spots-both of which were abundantly evident in 30 Rock, her beloved NBC sitcom. “Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.” “It seemed promising, because I’d heard that the show was looking to diversify,” she wrote in her 2011 memoir Bossypants. ![]() In 1997, Tina Fey interviewed for a job at Saturday Night Live. ![]()
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