Weekend Update anchor and Saturday Night Live head writer, Tina Fey, has announced that she is leaving the show after six seasons. Fey is quitting to focus her time on her new NBC prime-time show "30 Rock" which debuts this fall.
"I'm out of the fake news business now," Fey told the Television Critics Association's summer meeting Saturday.
She announced her "SNL" departure on Friday night's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
Also leaving is SNL actress Rachel Dratch who is featured as a sketch actress on Fey's new sitcom about a fictional late-night show with a strong resemblence to SNL.
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