“I have the opposite thing…” - Tina Fey admits keeping her ‘stupid’ work from her children 

Tina Fey is known for her work on Saturday Night Live, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, 30 Rock, and Mean Girls. She acknowledged that she keeps her 'stupid' work a secret from her two teenage kids. While the majority of parents are eager to show their works to their kids, Tina isn't the biggest fan. She revealed on The Kelly Clarkson Show:

“I have the opposite thing, which is I have so many ones that aired that I wish had not.”

Fey's children, Penelope (13) and Alice (19), are also aspiring artists. The two frequently work together on iMovie projects at home, as Fey has previously disclosed. Penelope usually plays the lead in their improvised shorts, while Alice usually serves as the director.

One of these works jokingly named Butt Show, was even played for Jimmy Fallon, demostrating that the daughters not only inherited their mother's comic but her directorial skills as well.

Tina Fey revealed while she was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon:

“One of the few things that they will do together is make iMovies. The little one … gets to be the actress and the other one gets to be the director so everyone’s kind of happy.”

Tina Fey admits to keeping her ‘stupid’ work from her children

But when it comes to showing off her work to the kids, she hesitates. She was with cast mate and former SNL member Will Forte on The Kelly Clarkson Show. Upon being asked by Clarkson about their return to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Fey talked about her time in SNL, how she went from being a writer to head writer to a cast member until she left the show in 2006.

After Forte picked his favourite pitches, Tina Fey said:

“I have the opposite thing, which is I have so many ones that aired that I wish had not."

She continued:

"On Peacock, they show old, random-ordered sketches from SNL on the SNL channel. 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?' "

The former SNL writer who was promoted to head writer in 1999 had previously talked candidly about how her daughters have influenced the success of her most well-known projects. At the 2024 film premiere of her adaptation of the Mean Girls musical in New York City, Fey told Entertainment Tonight:

"Sometimes I would run things by the kids."

Tina Fey went on to add:

"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.' "

Tina Fey's The Four Seasons, along with Colman Domingo, Steve Carell, Will Forte and Marco Calvani, is streaming on Netflix right now.

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