Emmys Show Fey, 30 Rock Lotsa Love

By Marcus Gilmer in Arts & Entertainment on Jul 16, 2009 5:40PM

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.