How Tina Fey became ‘the most powerful woman in comedy’
The comedian has never kowtowed to cancel culture, but she has slightly reworked the musical version of her 2004 hit “Mean Girls” to acknowledge changing mores.
Tina Fey may be the only comedian to have a phenomenon named after her by political scientists. The Tina Fey Effect was coined in 2012 by three professors at the University of East Carolina to describe their evidence that her impression of Sarah Palin’s performance in the 2008 vice-presidential debate on Saturday Night Live turned Republican and independent voters against the candidate.
Tina Fey is often called the most powerful and influential woman in comedy. Getty
The Telegraph London
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