Tina Fey is now the youngest person to have been awarded the Kennedy Center for the Performing Art’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

The chairman of the Kennedy Center sang her praises:

Like Mark Twain, Tina Fey offers her brilliance unconditionally,” said Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein “Throughout her career, she’s earned legions of fans for her quick, unapologetic wit and social commentary.”

The co-executive producer explains a little more about why they chose Tina as the recipient for 2010:

“She’s politically conscious, she’s a writer, she’s a filmmaker, she’s a producer, she’s a performer,” Mark Krantz, co-executive producer of the Twain salute, said. “Her body of work is as inclusive and far-reaching as anyone else’s, and she’s just funny.”

“kind of broke the ceiling for many, many women in comedy”

Cool! Tina Fey has certainly contributed a LOT to entertainment over the last decade or so and most of her stuff is truly great. Keep it up Tina!

(Story pretty much taken directly from I’m Not Obsessed, photo: ChicagoNow.com)

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