Red-Light Cameras Not So Special?
Cubs Combat Casino
PHOTOS: Peaches And Amanda Blank At Metro
The Return of The Chicagoist Reader Meet-Up
County Sales Tax Rollback Vetoed - Here We Go Again
Second City Alum Tina Fey and her outstanding comedy 30 Rock got a whole lot of love from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences today when the show earned a whopping 22 Emmy nominations, the most of any show this year. Fey also garnered another nomination for Lead Actress in a Comedy and her Sarah Palin imitation grabbed a Guest Actress nomination. What other Windy City connections got nominations?
- Popular Second City alum, Steve Carell, also got a nod, his for Lead Actor in a Comedy.
- Our favorite Christmas Special in ages, A Colbert Christmas, from Northwestern's own Stephen Colbert, was also nominated.
- One more Second City alum: Amy Poehler, who also taught at iO, was nominated for her performance on Saturday Night Live.
- Chicago Public Radio's This American Life got an Outstanding Nonfiction Series nomination for the TV version of the popular radio program.
- Jack McBrayer, who performed/studied at Second City's etc stage and at iO, was nominated for Supporting Actor in a Comedy (30 Rock).
- Peter Grosz, who got a writing nod for The Colbert Report is from Chicago and performed at iO.
- Ad company DDB Chicago is up for 2 emmys.
You can check out the full lineup of nominees here.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Stephen Colbert was a Second City performer at the same time at Steve Carell. I'm pretty sure Amy Poehler was never with Second City. Unless she was in a touring company for a while. She never performed on any of the resident stages.
Family Guy, which hasn't been funny since before it was cancelled, was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series. Um... what?
Peter Grosz also performed at Second City etc.