Tina Fey wins top comedy gong
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30 Rock and Saturday Night Live actress Tina Fey will receive the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humour - one of the United States' highest honours in the world of comedy.
Fey, whose popularity soared in 2008 after her impersonations of Republican vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin, will be presented with the award on November 13.
She is only the third woman to have won the honour in 13 years, after Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg.
The 40-year-old actress has already won six Emmys and two Golden Globes for her TV series 30 Rock, which she writes, produces and also stars in.
Before then, she spent nine seasons on the TV satirical sketch show Saturday Night Live and later branched into movies with Mean Girls, Baby Mama and Date Night.
The Mark Twain Prize, established in 1998, recognises people who have had an impact on society comparable to the 19th century satirist and writer of novels The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer.
Previous winners include Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Steve Martin and Neil Simon.
- Reuters
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