Tina Fey will be adding yet another award to her ever-growing collection when she’s awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour later this year.
The 30 Rock creator will be the youngest honouree of the award having just celebrated her 40th birthday The AP writes.
Past recipients of the award include Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor and Whoopi Goldberg.
For those not familiar with her work, Fey joined the Saturday Night Live writing team in 1997 and soon became its first female head writer by 1999.
She wrote and starred in Lindsay Lohan’s only decent movie Mean Girls, and in 2006 left SNL to create her semi-autobiographical hit sitcom and Comedy Central favourite 30 Rock.
In a statement Fey said “I am truly thrilled to receive this honour… I assume Betty White was disqualified for steroid use.”
Mark Krantz, an executive producer of the Mark Twain prize said: “She’s politically conscious, she’s a writer, she’s a filmmaker, she’s a producer, she’s a performer.
“Her body of work is as inclusive and far-reaching as anyone else’s, and she’s just funny.”
Hear hear!
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