Tina Fey
Actress Tina Fey knew she wanted to be a comedian from a young age. According to her, her parents have a big part in her career, since they are the ones who introduced her to this world from a young age: she shared in an interview that the whole family would sit together to watch Young Frankenstein, Saturday Night Live, Monty Python and The Honeymooners, which all had an influence on young Tina Fey.
At the age of eleven, she already knew she was interested in comedy, and so for a school project, she chose to read and write about the book Seventy Years of Great Film Comedians. Since Second City Television was a great inspiration for her growing up, when she graduated from college, Fey didn’t move to Los Angeles like most celebrities do, but instead, she moved to Illinois, in order to join Chicago’s Second City – an improvisational comedy troupe, where she could promote her comedy. During that time, she worked as a receptionist at the YMCA while taking performance lessons and slowly making a name for herself in the business.