This interview was originally broadcast on April 13, 2011.
Tina Fey grew up in a household with parents she has described as “Goldwater Republicans with pre-Norman Lear racial attitudes.”
But, she says, her parents were always supportive of her career, even when she told them she was moving to Chicago to start a career in improv.
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