Hey everyone, this is Amy Poehler. This is the first episode of my podcast. Thank you for being here. I like to be... Five or six years late to any trend. It only gets better from here. Or it only goes down from here. I don't know. We'll see. I just want to make it clear. I am not an expert. I'm not a therapist. I'm not here to change your life. I don't care if you get any.
I don't have advice for you. I just want us to have fun and lighten up a little. And I don't know. I want us to feel like there's... There's a way to have laughs amid all of the craziness that is life. So if you're listening to this while you're working out or folding laundry or maybe you're sitting in your car avoiding your kids. Maybe you're listening to this, I don't know, in your, you know, in-laws basement next to the Bowflex machine and it's Christmas.
the choices you've made in life. Whatever it is, this is a show here to have fun. Okay, so my guest today is Tina Fey. Tina is my wife, really, in life. She is my comedy partner in many ways, and she has... I talk about it in the podcast a little bit, but she has been along this journey with me. We've really experienced a lot of things together at the same time in life. Sometimes I feel like Tina and I are kind of... a group with two members. And we've had a lot of parallel things.
kids and tv shows and career and we're lucky enough to still like each other and want to tour together so uh we're gonna talk and um hang out and like any good hang you want to make sure that Anyone's invited. So without further ado, here are some of my fave people, Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen, Rachel Dratch, and Zarna. on the road and see if they have any questions for Tina. This episode is presented by the Toyota Grand High.
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Wait, Dratch's Zoom is in the dark. Dratch is in a haunted New England. Attic. It's very drach to join and then carry her laptop into every room in her home. I'm planting it now. Dratch is putting her headphones on in a way. It's a 30% chance she strangles herself. I know. This is a very typical Dratch entry. Dratch's headphones look like... You know when you're trying to untangle Christmas lights? Yeah, I didn't even know this kind of cord could tangle.
No, no, this is what Amy wanted. Just the sound of untangling headphones is great for like a first podcast. All right. Ready to rock. Maybe I should reintroduce everybody since we're all on mic here. Zarna Garg, Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen, Rachel Drag. Welcome to Good Hang. Thank you for being. It's great to be here. It's been a great hang so far. It's an honor. I mean, everything that's happened before the intro has been great. I mean, it feels like it's been real simple.
That's on me. That's on me. We really need you guys to clap. We really need to get this clap right, guys. It's not picking up. Sorry, sorry, sorry. The doorbell rang. Amy, this is the episode. This is it. 100%. I think it's very unfair that Dratch is using this time to record an episode of background noises. Dredge, who is at the door? That's the question. I ordered food. Heard an old-timey doorbell like that? Wait, wait, one more thing. One more thing.
The batteries are out of my recorder. My phone. This is the most embarrassing Pisces Also, Dratch, if you ordered from a second restaurant, you should tell us now. I did it. I did it this once. I didn't do a bang-bang. Okay. Alrighty, it's been a good hang. I'm ready Oh my God. Okay. So my first guess is Tina. Tina Fey and you all know Tina really well so I guess my question to you is what would you want to hear her talk about
on this podcast or any podcast. She doesn't do a lot of them. Her dad was really good at caricatures. So are there any other artistic talents that she got from her dad? Tina's good at caricatures too, like drawing. But how do you put that into a question for her? I guess it's more like... Did she get that from her dad or like how much like I remember him being really funny in his own way, too. Yeah. So she is an intimidating presence.
Like, you know, people are nervous around her. I was nervous around her when I first met her. I wonder if she ever gets asked, like, she's intimidating in the way that a man would be. But I wonder if she ever gets asked like the girl questions, like what dress are you going to wear? That's interesting. Is that something she deals with at all? Or do people just go to her like, oh.
Do you want me to ask her the dress question? Ask her the dress question, Seth. I'll ask her. And can you do it? Can you whisper it in like a phone call late at night? Can you say, what dress are you going to wear? Hey, Sarna, Sarna wants to. I know you guys, your time is limited, so I won't keep you much longer. But just before we go.
You are all doing tons of podcasts, hosting them, in them. What advice do you have for me as I launch? I just know from knowing you that whenever you ask people questions in real... you really are interested and you're just on like the cliff of like giving a hint as to what your opinion is.
just not too much, but just enough. So it like, it's really, it just draws you in. So there's no advice. I'm just like, every time you ask me a question, I'm like, Ooh, I think Amy's really asking me a question. Is it? Is it? That sounds kind of leading the way. No, no, no, no, no. It's more like this is going to be a fun conversation. So, for example, this is not a real thing, but you'd be like, so you really like landing in London? Like that's like a good airport to land in?
And I'm like, oh, something's this is about to be a conversation about what I think you're very good at not letting. Sometimes you help turn people away from the negative. that they might want to lay out to you. So you're a really good friend and that you listen. And I think you can tell when people just need to like unburden themselves or something. But I feel like more than maybe anyone else I know, you're very good at saying, can I invite you to look at this a different way?
Not even feedback. It's more like I just, you know, it's not like this is how you should, but like you're telling me something and I see how you're seeing it. But like, can I just ask you to maybe see it this way where you won't be as hard on yourself and you won't be as. sad about it i don't know i feel like you've always been very good Thanks. But you don't...
You have like a regular voice that you're not using right now. Do you want to do your real voice? Oh, yeah, I'll do my real voice. Okay. Hey, guys. Oh, it was so hard to do my other voice. It hurts, right? Yeah, it hurts. It hurts. Anyway, it's so great you guys are doing this today. I love you, and I have to go. I'm so sorry. Yeah, go, go. I love you. Thank you for doing this, Seth.
Everyone's got to go. It means the world that you guys did this. Thank you for letting me like start. This is like the ground floor. Thanks for being there for me with this and so many other things. I can't wait to see you all in part. you guys thanks so much for doing it love you love you all okay bye guys bye thank you this episode is brought to you by uber eats uber eats is delivering game day deals because you can't watch eight hours of basketball a day on an empty
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All right, we're going to officially start. And begin. And we need everyone to clap. Personality on. It's not working. We just need a clap. We need you to clap. Ten. Ten. Tina, thank you for being on. My absolute pleasure. I really, really appreciate it, buddy. You have done many. Most of the jobs that I have and the career that I have. But this means the most. This means the most? Okay, great. But I am kind of nervous. Why? Well, I mean.
I'm going to picture that there's a room full of – I'm going to picture like there's an audience. Okay. And not just Jenna. Yeah, because it's the only way I can get off. You know what? Also, sometimes when I hear things like this back, I go, oh, why was... Just let's warm up our voices. Do you remember the character that Keenan... He was like a New Yorker that just kept going, fix it. No, I don't remember that. I remember him.
Do you remember that character? Did that air? I don't know. It was a really funny, it was almost like a premise for a short story where he was just like a sweet old... And it was her dilemma was like, I don't actually know this man. Like, should I let him hold my baby? What if he runs away? What if he smashes? Okay, but you don't do a lot of podcasts. I don't do a lot. I'm very selective in my podcast work. I appreciate that, and you are so good.
Oh my gosh, thank you. It was so funny. Thank you. That is one podcast that I do listen to and enjoy. But I felt a lot of pressure. I went in there. Something I think about a lot and I fall short of it constantly, but a million years. writer still at SNL. And I remember Steve Martin came to do something on the show. He wasn't hosting, but he came to the show and he had just been on Letterman.
And I said, oh, hi, how you doing? I said, oh, my gosh, you were so funny on Letterman last night. And he just very matter-of-factly said, oh, well, you have to kill every time. And that has haunted me? Every day since. And he's right. And it's like, oh, right. Like if you're a beautiful actress from, I don't know, like Melrose Place. No, just whatever. Like you're just a beautiful actress. You can go on and be like, I went to the store once. But if you're.
You have to kill every time? Yeah. Oh, God. Have you ever... I mean, I think I know the answer to this, but I feel like I've never got... No, no, never. Because again, I'm not really so interesting on paper. Like I remember going to commercial auditions in Chicago and we had friends at that time. Chicago was a thriving. but there were huge ad agencies.
We get a lot of work that would pay for their whole year. You know, I did a little bit of voiceover work. I had a pager. Remember, you'd have a pager. Be like, guys, my page is blowing up. I might have a voiceover audition. There was a casting director in Chicago who shall not be named. Yes. So you'd pretend a bite into a hamburger and then you'd smile. Yeah. Yeah, and it could change your life. You could pay for like three.
And this casting director, just to get to know people, would ask them, what's your most embarrassing moment? Oh, yeah, yes, yeah. probably nervous in that moment. But I was like, no, thank you. I didn't want to tell her my most embarrassing moment. Yeah, because by the way, that's insane. I know. That's a tiny micro version. of like how so many things if you're like oh that lady would literally I had a bite and smile type thing where it was a McDonald's.
everything always was like okay so take you know two trains and a thing and get way some new kind of happy or drive-through meal whatever and I went all the way to the thing and I got Like, oh, this commercial is for a person pulling into a drive-thru. And I have this scar on the left side of my face that's way faded now, but it was much more prominent then. I was like, similar to the tea thing, I was like, guess who's not going to book this pulling up to the drive-thru with my short hair?
And I just remember in the thing just being like pulling into the chair, like scooting like I'm in the drive-thru being like, I'll have the fish fillet meal and my scar will have an orange soda. And then just leaving. You were like, you're not going to reject me. I'm going to reject you. I'm going to reject you. It's like, what are we doing here? I traveled 45 minutes each way.
What is your relationship to work and has it changed? I think it has changed. I am a work-based person. Like that's – if I were an animal – You know, they say like, oh, no, these are like some kinds of dogs like, no, they want to work or they'll go insane. So I am I am that kind of animal, I think. But I also I have just just read. really recently found that...
Because I went through such a stretch for so many decades where it was like you go to work for 12 to 13 hours and then you come home and you try to be with your family until they go to sleep. And then you're like, then you've got to do your homework. And I've only...
homework tonight. I can just be a person in this world and maybe like watch a program. Do you feel like you can actually enjoy I can't, although it's still, you know, I think any other writer would say this too, that the closest I can get to joy and peace is like the 30th.
because that's the only time when you're like I did it I really I don't have any homework but I'm still a very good good carriage horse because I did my work yes a set for the first time in a long time and it was actually and I and I worked hard to build it to be a really healthy set and
humane hours and and it was nice to be um among other humans and making something i also was extremely purpose bringing together people who I believed were good people who would not make any trouble for me yes and it really made a difference I feel like that's the that Right. That's a luxury. Is getting to realize I only, if I can, want to work with people who I know will not.
We won't go into which ones, but people are like hearing about movie sets and being like, that's crazy what's happening there. I was like, that's not that crazy. Like that's pretty like movie. are about just people going crazy and acting out and then one or two people trying to harvest series of photographs of those people that can be assembled into a film. But it's mostly poorly behaved, crazy people being indulged.
And we have seen and worked at places, and this is no big scoop, like SNL is one of them, where people come in with their system of how they live. And they're like people when they're nervous or insecure are often not at their best. And the way they act is wild because they're nervous or insecure. Because it is like having a stomach flu. And you're like, it's the sick. or the other and it just really gotta come out one end grouchy until it comes
But it doesn't prevent it from happening. But I'm like, OK, here's what's happening. I feel that. Like I'm being directed by someone who doesn't quite know what they're doing, but there's no one telling us what to do. I'm either going to have to take over here or I'm going to have to like, you know, check out. Yeah. And I've been in a couple of projects where like week one, I'm like, oh no. Like we. They really are. I know. But like, hold on. I'm going to take a lip balm.
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You're a man. Shake hands and then go wash your hands, you freak. Yeah, you're the one with poop on your hands. Like, who said anything about poop on their hands until you did? We know a couple of people that are germaphobes. We have to watch out. That's the thing we have to watch out for in our 50s is the thing that was like our cute eccentricity.
they don't like to drive yeah well well I was I got my license during the pandemic you were like you it was before the pandemic you were like you got to get your license back to me you were like you can't No, I love to drive. I do. You do. You're good at driving. I love to drive. And the name of your car is? My car is named Karen because she's a white Subaru.
Because as you've said, like a lot of the actual worst Karens were in fact named Amy in real life. The woman that called the guy that was birdwatching was named Amy. At the same time, Amy Coney Barrett was. We missed it by an inch. Yeah. Is there anything you feel like you see me doing that you... Should be careful about? Warn you about? That's a good question. I think that is what women do.
hey, you know the pills that you take for flying? You shouldn't take them when you're not flying. Well, my chair made a fart sound. That wasn't me. No, I feel like I know what you should tell me about, which is the especially coming out of. My mumbling, talking, metastasized. And sometimes when I'm thinking really fast, like it really is.
Even I'm like, wow, what's going on there? Like, I have to work to fully form my words. What do you think is going on there? I think I stayed home a lot in the pandemic and muttered to myself. And I hope that's it and it's not a precursor. It was like her muttering started when she was 53. And then she became one of the Crumb brothers from the movie Crumb. Everyone pause the podcast. Go watch Crumb real quick.
I'm trying to think if they're, I don't. Well, I know that I, like I play this game with my friends. This would be a fun game to play together, which is like, what is the version of you that's like your biggest fear you will turn into? I know mine exactly. Because you're playing Candy Crush the whole time. And you have one window open with porn. I wish we could do the whole podcast where I say really, like, the wrong information.
verify it in front of you. Oh, also, I wish I was just smoking weed the whole time. What if I just start to lit up a joint? Okay. Okay. How do I articulate that? I would say there's a certain type of strident.
Older showbiz. Yes. listen to me honey I don't give a fuck and I'm like oh god but that's so not you you're a mutterer I'm a mutterer so it's not but there's also something about the look of it that's as often as I say like I'm gonna cut my hair and my friend Guy has been doing no you may not well you have the best Hair in the business. People should know this. This is all Tina's hair. This is all my hair. Thank you.
And much like skinny people who are mad about Ozempic, in the early 2000s when all these bitches started wearing tracks, I was like, what? You can just have what I have. This is all I have. It is the most incredible real hair I've ever seen. Thank you so much. We just did this. I just did this show called The Four.
And there's a scene, it's based on this old movie with Alan Alda and Carol Burnett. And there's a scene in the old movie where Carol Burnett is very angrily brushing her short hair, which is so, it's like the most 1980. It's going to look terrible. But in the scene, she's fighting and she's brushing her hair. And I put just a little bit of that in the show. I just put myself in the eye. And I kept saying, Coleman Domingo was directing that episode.
Coleman, I'll tell you what, a lot of these movies... their hair on camera because they're all wearing fucking And they're all wearing. And so I like I was like insisted in the edit that a couple shots of me brushing my hair stayed in. And then I went to the mix and I was like, oh, did you turn down the sound of my hair brushing? Turn it back up.
That's what producing is. That's what producing is. It's insanity and narcissism. It's like, turn up my hairbrush. Turn up the sound of the brush going through my hair. We do need it. But you have incredible hair. I feel like you should have a hair campaign. And also I always. I'm pushing you to have a glasses line. Why do you not have a glasses? I don't have a glasses line because I have to say you hate money.
I do kind of hate money. As we know, I'm terrible. I'm terrible with money only in that I'm like. You are not terrible. No, I'm not terrible. I don't waste money, but I don't get excited about money. If I'm safe. enough money to live. I have a problem with rich people having a side hustle. Yeah. You mean like a podcast or something? No, this is you're doing work. I'm saying if you if you sold. Yeah, I know what you mean. Like, if I had a rosé, if you...
You know what I mean? If you already have like 200 million... Also, I need you to... But Tina, this is where you have to learn from Gen Z. I'm sorry, and we have to. They don't care. They don't judge it. They don't judge it. I judge it. Well, you should stop because this is the thing that you have to have a million... Well, I have my line of children's medications. I told you, that's so treacherous. No, guys, by the way, one time, a million years ago, I remember seeing, and I won't name.
I remember seeing an 80s actress promoting her line of homeopathic children. on this earth would I trust an actress for pediatric medications? You're saying you worry about turning into a woman as you get older that is like a strident, opinionated, here's how it works, baby. Because I just think as an exercise, it's fun to think about our personalities, like the thing that got us here, that are here sitting in front. You and I are lucky enough to have a lot of years.
hopefully more years in front of us in working, getting to try all this different stuff. We're at. Either parents who have passed away or aging parents. We have kids who are like coming into their own. We're right in the middle. 100. God forbid. Wait, you don't want to live to 100? Unless there's some amazing. There will be. Okay. We'll see. Like new longs. There'll be a whole thing. That is the thing. We've traveled on.
He says welcome to hell. And God says welcome to hell. Okay. But do you want to talk about Four Seasons for a second, by the way? Sure. Because it is coming out. And Coleman. So talented, so beautiful. Gorgeous. Inside and out, like a beautiful human being. Yes, so we're doing this show, The Four Seasons, on Netflix. I'm very excited about it. It is based on this 1981 movie. Alan Alda, another angel on this earth.
came to my house. That was pretty cool. Alan and Arlene Alda. It was a real lovely wife. Momentous occurrence. I mean, Alan Alda was huge in our lives. He may remain. One year they gave out a Super Emmy. It was called a Super Emmy? It was called a Super Emmy. And he's the only person that ever got it because it was like they won like best show, best directing, best. um, script, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And the super Emmy goes to Alan Alda for Matt.
They only did it once. I think they only did it once. And was it bigger than a regular? You should have him on the podcast. He has a great podcast, too. I have listened to his podcast. It's one of the few. I would love to talk about it because it was a truly joyous experience top to bottom. Like one of the things I'm most proud about of this whole thing was that so many people, actors and crew came up to me and were like, this is.
It's Coleman, a beautiful Italian actor named Marco Calvani, Steve Carell, Will Forte, Carrie Kinney Silver. It's basically that little ensemble is pretty much, that's it. Very few day players. Very few, like no real, very few. cozy environment. And it's a very, very gentle program that I am kind of just can't wait to see if people are interested.
A good hang. Yes. It hopefully is the TV equivalent of a good hang because it's just, you know, there's some story, but there's no zombies. There's no mysteries. Great. That's exactly, truly. My nervous system cannot take it. Well, two things. My nervous system cannot take it. And also, I feel like there's this weird sometimes, I mean, you are the exact, you're the exact.
always really really funny but a lot of times women specifically are asked to like be like nurturing caretakers in spaces like be teachers and and and and and when we were thinking All the guys get to just like goof around and have fun. And it'd be like straight comedy escapism. And our stuff has to be. which also is important yeah this is i mean for the for the people who want 100 jokes per minute this is a departure these characters are funny and but
Ooh, I love that. So again, we shall see. And I feel like it is just a little science experiment where people might be like, no. But TV doesn't really, like there's no TV. It's TikTok about TV shows that aren't on. So what is the thing that you do? Where do you go to escape? What is like the video that you watch, the person that you watch? What is making you laugh? I have a couple things that I like to watch. But I like to watch videos of people either doing or learning or trying to teach.
So either someone who can do it, or I love it when it's a person who you don't expect them to be able to do it, and then they do it. Like they're holding like a laundry basket. Yeah, so they're just like, yeah. I love watching people do it. And then the other day. a whole bunch of people doing it. And it took me one guy was like a really beautiful ripped guy in like shorts, no shirt doing it. And I was like, Oh, this is it.
And then the algorithm was like, oh, you watch that? So you just want to see videos that are just like hashtag rugby build? And it was just like guys with a rugby build? do want to watch yeah paul meskel started that like he's the ultimate famous rugby bill With their underwear? No, so in rugby, there's a move where the men, to get the other...
You know, like to basically, it's almost like if you're hoisting somebody up. Yeah. They grab basically their shorts and underwear. So weird. And then they, that's how they get it up. And there's videos. And I'm not saying that my algorithm. taking up on this but i have seen them enough to now i do get them where men where men grab each other by the waist it's very feminine it's actually like it almost
Their dicks are right in the line of their face. But it's totally fine. I mean, it's fine either way. Of course it is. I just mean it. Everyone's happy. There's no. Everyone's doing exactly what they are. um yeah i wasn't mad about that that change in my algorithm um and uh okay so another thing that i really do the only other television program that truly And by the way, they know this and they're probably like, stop talking about us. It's getting weird. I love NBC4.
Gus Rosendale it is I find to be the most true You get your local news. Then you get Produce Pete. Oh, I love Produce Pete. Nice old Italian man. Comes out, tells you what's in C. to make with it incredible. Then it used to be more frequently before the pandemic, before the pandemic he used. Bill's books. Nice gentleman named Bill. Come tells you what he read, what he liked about it.
Before the pandemic, they also then used to sometimes be like, here are some animals that are up for adoption. I feel like that's gone away. But that's it. And then the weather. I believe they're friends. They have a wonderful rapport. You don't know what their deal is? I mean, I don't think they're more than... I would never. But I feel like they like being coworkers. What a great name to you, Pat Battle. Pat Battle. Have I? Listen, one time it was.
That's a big deal. She went out where she lives in New Jersey, and she was helping people push their cars. That's cool. That is what. It's Produce Pete. It's Bill's Books. We help our neighbors. That's the American. Listen, have I invited Pat Battle to it? A hundred percent. Like too many times. Does she show up? Yes. We have a good time. Great. So you've met Pat Battle. I've met Pat Battle. And what was that like? Did sparks fly? I mean, she was.
It was pretty funny that I keep bothering her and I'm obsessed with her. But Pat Battle's in an episode of 30 Rock. Oh, really? As herself? Yeah, we did one episode. They can't figure out to get it to work. And all women are all like, turn it on and off again. But it's like, it was like Pat Battle, Gayle King, a couple other news. running it and she her character has a I just remember she had some line where she was like,
I put a sweater on a body pillow and I took it for a canoe ride. Like everyone, all the women lose their minds at the Women in Media luncheon. Tina, that makes total sense to me that that is your like fun. But the news, but that's a new, but the news is local. Listen, it's local. It is. It's local. But even the locals. Oh, everything's on fire. Yeah. But then it's also like, there's a food festival on City Island. Like Betty's going to make the squash pie called Mutzagutz.
We're right now not— He's not thinking about us at all. No. He doesn't know what we— Joes to talk about talk about an art. Jost, when we met Jost. Did you say a narc or an-arc? An-arc. Okay. Talk about a narc. What a narc. I was smoking weed and Jost called the police and I was like, fucking narc. No. Talk about having an arc. Baby Jost, as we used to call him. We met him. We went up to the Harvard Lampoon. Oh, see? That's where we met him? That's, I think, where I met him.
I hated every minute being at the Harvard Lampoon. Boy, me too. What a bunch of dorks. Maybe we should just tell the story. So the Harvard Lampoon invites you. They invite you to come up and then you go. By the way, try to roast you. And they're not good at it. No, they're not good at it. But you and I many times over the years. loved or hated something at the same time.
And they make you go through this kind of initiation. And, I mean, I wasn't in a sorority in college. No, me neither. And I don't get it. But they made you go through a whole thing, and then they brought us into it. And we had, we had, I think we. But baby Jost was there. He was the baby. Okay. I don't remember him. We didn't get a Jost roast, but. No. I don't remember any of the actual people that roasted us. I remember the face. Since then, you know why, because you and I...
At worst, chip on her shoulder. Yeah, like you're not better than me. I remember having two more Harvard experiences and both involved what I felt. sniveling guys roasting me because one was the hasty pudding where you really do You know what you're getting into, and they kind of come out and roast you. Why isn't everyone just like, no, nerds, thanks, no thanks? Why does anyone go? I don't know. But I really did my homework.
And then I was asked to give like one of those speeches at Harvard and one of the kids – I mean I – definitely, like, people like to say, like, you're, you know, you're the poor man's Tina Fey. I know. And so, but this kid said it before, right before I went up, so I gave him the finger.
Everyone was shocked about it. And I don't know if it was the right, I mean, I did it, I guess. But I go, fuck you. And again, I was like, you're on a dais, Amy. Like, this is a, this is, but then fuck Harvard. Yeah, fuck Harvard.
But thank you for inviting me. It was a real honor. Don't lose my number forever. Go fuck yourselves. It definitely is the kind of thing where people go to a... the award it's like if you really if you really don't like it don't go but i did go and was happy to give a speech um okay lastly yeah just to kind of get started on this podcast i had on zoom
Seth and Fred and Zarna. And they all got into Zoom. And I said, I'm interviewing Tina. What should I ask her? Oh, my gosh. And it was great because everyone was very excited. And, of course, I just want you to know the most hilarious thing was. laptop to turn on or her headphones to work. And then while we were recording, the doorbell rang and her dog started barking.
So there wasn't much content that we can use. So were there questions for that? But the one question, there were a couple questions, which is what makes you laugh? We went into that. What makes me laugh? We didn't really get into that. We watched For Comfort. The thing that made me... Most recently was this clip of Bobby Moynihan from they did. talk to people about the process of auditioning and then they show them their
You know, they've never seen it or like, oh, my gosh, this is from 50 years ago or whatever. And they showed me made Bobby watch his audition back. And he is doing a character that's in his audition. he's watching it and he's he's watching it and he goes oh no and then The way he says, oh, Bobby, the way he calls himself by name is so gentle. And so it made me laugh so hard. And I think it should be. a piece of comedy that you're like okay we did we realize now that that's not okay you just show
Oh, Bobby. And that's how you apologize for a problem. Let Oh Bobby sound over it and it means I see it. I'm sorry. Let's all move forward. I know better now. I know better now. I do better now. I'm an ally who makes mistakes. Oh Bobby. Oh Bobby. Oh Bobby. That really. You can make that, get that audio. You should trademark that audio and make merch. And then the other thing that Zarna had, Zarna was like, you never get asked, Tina never gets asked girly questions, which is so funny.
I mean, do you feel like you don't get asked early questions? I don't know. I know. Like, what's my skincare routine? Yeah. Nothing. I mean. Do nothing, nothing. Fred wanted to know.
Fred's like... Oh, also, by the way, you know, Fred does a great Tina impression. No! You've never seen his... No, I've never seen it. What do you mean? I feel like he's done it to you. He does a thing where... he's like a mum he mumbles but when he comes up the thing about Fred Armisen his impressions are never like they never make you feel bad yeah At least in my experience, like they just feel like they're kind. Yeah. Which is hard to do. But he comes up with like a script. You see.
Maybe. I don't know. The physicality. It's more physicality than anything else where he comes up with a script and he goes, hey, buddy, I just want to look at it. And you're giving a thought with the script, holding the script to your body, and you can't hear what you're saying. Well, remember Shai Rani and Sandy? before you go, is your dad a really good artist, really good at caricatures? Do you have any of that artistic ability? I wish I had more. I think both my daughters have it. I do.
my free time and they are terrible and they're like they're getting slightly better but not not at a rate would impress like they're terrible um but i look because it's the only thing i want to paint is to i want to try to capture people's faces people Sometimes I kind of like how wonky. Of the four people in my immediate family, I am the least talented at art. But can I just quickly, my favorite, the story of when my dad, who loved coming up to visit SNL, it was like Fred's wonderful.
Fred was in a costume for some other sketch. He was in a tuxedo. And my dad had not met him yet. And he just came up to my dad. We'll get a robot to do it. Get a robot to do it. But it was so funny. And your dad was like, what? He loved it. Oh, he loved it. And he used to paint little portraits. No way. He was Fred's biggest fan. Oh, Don Faye has great taste. Yeah, he was a great artist. Smart artist. Cool guy. Really cool guy. And coming back around, if Fred has Don Faye original...
In my children's bedrooms, I have paintings done by Barbara Jost, Colin Jost's grandmother. That's awesome. So it's back to juice. If you are listening to this, when it comes out, Tina and I are going to be on the road. Yes, look for us at a theatrical venue near you. We have a bunch. Is it TinaAmy.com? TinaAndAmy.com? You would think I would know. Who would know? I think so. I think it is Tina.
So, you know, that's our first episode of Good Hang. Thank you, Tina, for coming. I did actually learn. I did learn that she learned things that I didn't know after 30 years, that she obviously is in an emotional affair with her local news. We are at a point in the show, the end of the show, where we're going to do something called the Polar.
which is really simply I'm going to talk about stuff that makes me laugh and like where we're finding joy and lightness these days. And so to add to that before we go, I just want to say that. My favorite sketch on SNL, the one that I return to over and over again during COVID, during tough times in my life, when I was feeling especially down, the first Debbie Downer.
the Lindsay Lohan episode when they're at Disneyland, that sketch to me is the perfect example of how a good laugh can completely change your day, your week, your life, and why it is so funny to me. is that the great Rachel Dratch, whose comedic stylings and physical comedy we experienced at the beginning of this episode... when she couldn't get her headphones on. When Rachel is trying to stick the landing and get those jokes out, and we know that it's going to be followed by the sound.
And the audience has this moment where we're all in it together. That moment is still thrilling to watch. So do yourself a favor because, yes, Rachel cracks up. And, you know, when people crack up, it can. annoying or whatever and you know I grew up with Carol Burnett and like loved watching the play that they all had But what's so funny about Debbie Downer in that scene and why I truly watch it for a serotonin boost is because Rachel knows what's coming and she tries her best.
And that, she's like bursting. And anyway, that's what's making me laugh today You've been listening to Good Hang. The executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss-Berman, and me, Amy Poehler. The show is produced by The Ringer and Paper Kite. For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Kat Spillane. Kaya McMullin, and Alea Zanaris. For Paper Kite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss-Berman. Original music by Amy Miles.