Tina Fey gave birth to her second child on August 10.She named her daughter Penelope Athena Richmond.

The “30 Rock” star has a five year old daughter named Alice, and is married to composer Jeffery Richmond. The couple chose to wait until the baby arrived to find out if they were having a boy or a girl.

Fey, 41, made the announcement about her pregnancy while promoting her book “Bossypants” on the Oprah Winfrey show in April. She said “My husband and I really decided that we felt rather than risk having ’30 Rock’ end in several years and feeling like part of our family is missing that we were going to prioritize our family.”

Fey is no secret to a busy lifestyle, especially with the help of her husband who, according to her, was “really good about helping out.” They married in 2001.

She described her second pregnancy on the Ellen DeGeneres show as being “easy” despite her “advanced maternal age.” She joked that the doctors “looked at her like she was just going to explode.”

Fey is an actress, comedian, writer, and producer whose successes include being the first female head writer as well as a comedian on Saturday Night Live. She adapted the screenplay and acted in Mean Girls (2004). The film was based off the book “Queen Bees and Wannabes” by Rosalind Wiseman.

More recently, Fey created the series “30 Rock” which is based off her experience at Saturday Night Live.

As a hard worker, Fey was an honor student through high school, and knew she was interested in comedy by middle school. She also anonymously wrote her high school’s satirical column, The Acorn. She then went on to study playwriting and acting at the University of Virginia.

After graduation, Fey moved to Chicago and began working for the improv comedy group, The Second City, where she took classes at night. During the day she worked at the YMCA in Evanston. She joined the Second City cast in 1994, while also submitting scripts to Saturday Night Live. Adam McKay, who was the head writer, had also performed at Second City.

Fey moved to New York when she was hired as a writer, and after losing thirty pounds she began to act as well. Fey says that the weight loss and desire to be on television are unrelated. Most famously, she hosted Weekend Update, a comical news segment. She eventually got McKay’s job as head writer. She left SNL in 2006 to develop 30 Rock.

30 Rock was, and still is, a hit TV series that has earned Fey and the show Emmy Nominations. In 2008, she won a Golden Globe. In 2008 the Associated Press named her the Entertainer of the Year, as well as one of Barbara Walter’s Most Fascinating People of 2008.

Fey shortly returned to SNL during the Presidential election to portray Sarah Palin. The episode had 5.7 million views online and created even more buzz about Fey.

Fey’s most recent work aside from “30 Rock,” is a film titled “Mommy and Me” alongside Meryl Streep who plays her mother. Stanley Tucci directs the comedy. For now, Fey will be with her family during this joyous occasion.

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Former governor Sarah Palin continues to stoke the fires of speculation on her possible presidential bid. She reported that she will attend the Iowa State Fair this week, fueling the ‘will Palin run?’ ongoing debate.

Palin is believed to attend the fair on Friday, though a specific date has not been set. She is bringing her “One Nation” bus tour to Iowa, although she is not scheduled to speak at the fair. All the other Republican presidential candidates will debate on Thursday night in Iowa and then participate in the Ames Straw Poll on Saturday. Many are scheduled speakers at the state fair, including likely front runner Mitt Romney.

“We are very happy to jump back on the bus for another leg of our ‘One Nation Tour’! We accept with gratefulness an invitation to meet folks at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines this week. The heartland is perfect territory for more of the One Nation Tour as we put forth efforts to revitalize the fundamental restoration of America by highlighting our nation’s heart, history, and founding principles,” Palin wrote in an email to supporters.

In her e-mail, Palin said “prudent Americans” live within their means, including “seeking affordable participation in more community events, local patriotic parades, and traditional all-American venues like state fairs.” She went to say she was “excited to try some of that famous fried butter-on-a-stick, fried cheesecake-on-a-stick, fried twinkies, etc.”

“I’ll enjoy them in honor of those who’d rather make us just ‘eat our peas’!” she said, in a dig at President Obama.

By attending the event, Palin is conveniently ensuring that her name will be in the news this weekend. Texas governor Rick Perry is also closer to announcing his decision. Although he will not be attending the debate, he will be in Iowa on Sunday after trips to New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Palin, who stated she still has not made a decision regarding her political future, is scheduled to return to Iowa over Labor Day weekend. She has indicated she would make a decision by September.

Palin also released a new video on her political action committee’s web site on Wednesday. Palin narrates the 55-second film, titled “Always Proud,” which features footage of corn fields and the Iowa State Fair set to an inspirational soundtrack.  “A writer observed, we grow good people in our small towns with honesty and sincerity and dignity,” Palin says in the video.

“And I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind. I grew up with those people. They’re the ones who do some of the hardest work in America, who grow our food and run our factories and fight our wars. They love our country in good times and bad — and they’re always proud of America.”

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