Tina Fey | Good Hang with Amy Poehler

hey everyone this is Amy polar this is. the first episode of my podcast thank. you for being here I'd like to be five. or six years late to any Trend um it. only gets better from here but or it. only goes down from here I don't know. we'll see I just 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 better. um I don't have advice for you I just I. just want us to have fun and lighten up. a little and I don't know I want us to. feel like they there's.

um 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 uh you know in-laws. basement next to the bow Flex machine. and it's Christmas and you're. questioning the choices you've made in. life whatever it is this is a show here.

to um to have fun and make you laugh and. um I'm not here to judge okay so my. guest today is Tina Fay um Tina is my. wife really in life she is my comedy. partner in many ways and she has um you. know 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 I feel like.

Tina and I are kind of a a group with. two members and we've had a lot of. parallel things happen at the same time. kids and TV shows and career and we're. lucky enough to still like each other. and want a tour together so uh we're GNA. talk and um hang out and like any good. hang you want to make sure that anyone's. invited so without further Ado uh here. are some of my fave people Seth Meyers. Fred armison Rachel drach and zarag gar.

a great standup and friend who's been. joining Tina and I on the road and see. if they have any questions for Tina. anything they think I should ask her and. honestly I just want to check in and and. see if they think this is a good. idea this episode is presented by the. Toyota Grand Highlander life's journey. brings constant change filled with. exciting surprises new chapters and. Grand challenges and the Toyota Grand. Highlander is more than a vehicle it's. your partner and embrace all life throws.

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dra is in a a haunted New England attic. there it's very dra to join and then. carry her laptop into every room in her. home planting I'm planting it. now dra is putting your headphones on it. away it's is a 30% chance she strangles. herself I know this is a very typical D. entry str's headphones look like H you. know when you're were trying to untangle. Christmas lights yeah I didn't even this.

kind of chord could tangle like that I'm. holding up everything no no this is what. wanted just the sound of untangling. headphones is great for like a first. podcast and stuff all right ready to. rock maybe I should reintroduce. everybody since we're all on Mike here. zarag gar Seth Meyers Fred armison. Rachel dra welcome to Good hang thank. you for being it's great to be here it's. been a great hang so far everything. happened before the intro has been great. I mean it feels like it's been real real.

smooth that's on me you can hear this. microphone okay does it sound all right. check check um can we just go down the. line and have everyone clap we really. need you guys to clap. we oh I didn't hear. Z we really need to get this clap right. guys okay Seth it's not picking. up sorry sorry sorry sorry.

[Laughter]. the door right he this is the. episode 100% aren this this is I think. it's very unfair that dra is is using. this time to record an episode of. background noises with. racial D who is at the door that's the. question I ordered.

food I haven't heard an old timey. doorbell like that wait wait one one. more thing one. more the batteries are out on my my. recorder. myone my my voice but I don't need. microphone right probably going to edit.

you out of. this this is the most embarrassing. Pisces also dra if you ordered from a. second restaurant you should tell us now. I didn't I didn't just one I didn't do a. bang. [Laughter]. bang okay it's been a good. hang I'm ready.

[Laughter]. oh my God okay so my first guest is. Tina Tina Fay um 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 uh really good at caricatures mhm so. are there any other artistic uh talents. that she got from her dad because Tina's. good at caricatures too like drawing but. how do you put that into like a question. for her I guess it's more like. um did she get that from her dad or like. how much other like I remember him being. really funny in his own way too yeah so. um she is an intimidating president.

Tina 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 the she's intimidating. in the way that a man would be to me but. I wonder if she ever gets asked like the. girl questions like what dress are you. going to wear something she deals with. at all or do people just go to her like. oh no this is not a Tina question do you. want me to ask her the dress question. ask her the dress question Seth I'll ask. her I like that and can you do it can.

you whisper it in in like a phone call. late at night can you say what dress. what dress are you going to. wear hey zarna zarna wants to know um I. know you guys your time is limited so I. won't keep you much longer but um just. before we go you are all doing tons of. podcasts hosting them in them like what. what advice do you have for me as I. launch I just know from knowing you that.

like whenever you ask people questions. in real. life 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 uh it just draws you. in so there's no advice I'm just like. every time you ask me a question I'm. like oh I think Amy's really asking me a. question is it is it that sounds kind of.

leading the witness a little bit no no. no no no it's more like um this is going. to be a fun conversation so for example. this is not a real thing you 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. narrative that they might want to lay.

out to you so you're really good friend. and that you listen and I think you can. tell when people just need to like. unburden themselves with 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 that maybe some feedback not even. feedback it's more like I just I 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 that way. thanks but you know you don't you have. like a regular voice that you 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's so was so hard to do my. other voice that's it hurts rightt it. hurts anyway so great that you guys are. doing this today uh I love you and I. have to go I'm so sorry yeah go go I. love you thank you for doing this. I have to go too everyone's G to go I 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 person very soon I really love 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. stomach I love to watch TV on my couch.

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Wooh 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 to clap we need you. to clap and then count backwards from 10. 10. 10 Tina thank you for being on the first. official podcast that I have ever done. for good hang it is my absolute pleasure. I really really appreciate it buddy You'. have done many things for me over the. years um including getting most of the. jobs that I helping me get 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 guess it's funny to talk to. your friends that you've known for so. long and then interview them I guess but. we should probably I guess we should. probably picture this as like I'm going. to picture that there's a room full of. like 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.

no I'm just kidding I just step on your. neck and talk to you you know what also. I sometimes when I hear things like this. back I go oh my was why was my voice so. nasal and annoying so should we just. take a little minute to just just Let's. us warm up our. voices do you remember the the character. that um Kenan did on SNL where he was a. guy saying just fix it remember he was. like a he was like a New Yorker that. just kept going fix it no I don't. remember that I remember him saying let. me hold that baby 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 man in a train. station and then somebody was a young. host was there with her baby and he was. she was like chatting with him and then. he just goes let me hold that baby 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 it like a basketball. into the ground let me hold that. baby okay but you don't do a lot of. podcasts I don't do a lot I'm very I'm. very selective my podcast work I.

appreciate that and you were so good on. Bowen and Matt's oh my gosh it was so. funny thank you I that is one podcast. that I do listen to and enjoy that and. dra anything dra says um those guys are. funny but I felt a lot of pressure I. went in there knowing like you have to. do that one minute thing at the end and. I I um something I think about a lot and. I fall short of it constantly but a. million years ago.

uh was a 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. he had just been on Letterman the night. before 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 ofly 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's 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 a comedy person you. have to kill every time yeah oh God have. you ever I mean I I think I know the. answer to this but I feel like I've. never got really gotten a job from an. audition ever oh um you feel like you've. gone into an audition for something and. nailed it and been like I got. it no 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 town for. commercials I don't know if it still is. but there were you know huge ad agencies. where based there and they would shoot. things in Chicago and a lot of people. that we worked with at Second City would. get a lot of work that would pay for. their whole year you know um I did a. little bit of voiceover work um I had a. pager remember you'd have a pager be. like guys my page is blowing up I might.

have a voiceover audition downtown I got. to go there was a casting director in. Chicago um who shall not be named who. was a commercial casting director and I. had kind of wonky teeth um so it was. this kind of thing where we'd go out for. this remember the term bite and smile. yes so you'd pretend a bite into a. hamburger and then be like you'd smile. yeah yeah and it was it could change. your life if you got you could pay for. like three years of your low rent yeah.

and I knew right away that there with my. teeth I was never going to get a bite. and smile like there was no way a brand. would be associated with my teeth um and. this casting director just to get to. know people would ask them what's your. most embarrassing moment to get you to. yes and I had a. full uh like I got probably nervous in. that moment but I was like no thank you. I like didn't want to tell her my most. embarrassing moment by the way that's.

insane like that's that's that's one of. the that's a tiny micro version of when. we try to explain the 99s to younger. people of like how so many things you. like oh that lady would literally be. fired and tried in front of a jury for. asking you that in the workplace um I. had a a bite and smile type thing where. it was a McDonald's audition um and uh. and everything always was like okay so. take you know two trains and a thing and. get weighed out to wherever this.

audition is and then you get there and. you and it was for some new kind of. happy or drive-thru meal whatever and I. went all the way to the thing and I got. there and I realized as we were going. into the session like oh this this. commercial is for a person pulling into. a. drive-thru and I have this you know scar. on the left side of my face that's way. faded now but it was much more prominent. then I was like s similar to the tea. thing I was like guess who's not going. to book this pulling up to the. drive-through with my short hair with. the perm on top and a big scar and uh. and I just remember in the thing being.

up like pulling into like in the chair. like scooting like I'm in the drivethru. being like I'll have the fish Fila 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 I'm going to. re you I'm going to reject you like what. are we doing here I traveled 45 minutes. each way I mean we talk about work a lot. and when we're together I think we work. together really well what is your. relationship to work and has it changed. I I think it has changed I am work based.

person like that's if I were an animal I. would be like a carriage horse I think. you know just like you know how they say. like oh no these some or 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 recently really recently found that. I have because I went through such a. stretch for so many decades where I was. like you go to work for 12 to 13 hours. and then you come home and you you know.

you try to be with your family till they. go to sleep and then you're like then. you got to do your homework and I've. only in the last year or two had Windows. of time we like I don't have 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 it. in that moment I can although it's still. you know I think any other writer would. say this too that the only the closest I. can get to joy and peace is like the 36.

hours after I've turned something in cuz. 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. and then after like a 36 hours it creeps. back in of like okay I'm going to get. notes back or I'm I should go skep ahead. to the next thing I will say though I. did go back to work this fall uh on a. set for the first time in a long time. and it was actually and I and and I. worked hard to build it to be a really.

healthy set and. really like Humane hours and and it was. nice to. be um among other humans and making. something I also was. extremely purposeful about 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's.

success success that's a luxury is. getting to be to realize I only if I can. want to work with people who I know will. not think that chaos is how to be. creative it's how to be creative and you. know I think um uh as so many Tik Tok. stories 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 yeah pretty like. movies espe. 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 yeah poorly behaved. crazy people being indulged by various. parties and and we have seen and worked. at places and this is no you know big. scoop like SNL is one of them where. people come in with their system of how. they like to work and they like 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. yeah people get insecurity makes people. behave wildly I even have learned to. realize that we talk about relationship. to work that I have now learned that I. get very very grouchy and nervous when. something has to be written because it. is like having a stomach flu MH and. you're like it's the sick you feel. before you either. eject it one way or the other like and.

it just really it's got to come out one. end grouchy until it comes out um and I. can at least see that pattern but. doesn't prevent it from happening but. I'm like okay here's what's happening. right now I feel that way about when I'm. in a situation where I don't feel like. there's a strong. leader like I where I'm being directed. by someone who doesn't quite know yeah. what they're doing or there's but. there's no one telling us what to do. like there's no one in control I have. that grouchiness where I feel like I'm.

going to I'm either going to have to. take over here or I'm going to have to. dis like you know check out yeah and. I've been in a couple projects we like. week one I'm like oh no like we don't. have a captain like this ship is going. down and you can see months ahead yep. how do you yeah I don't even know how do. you you just kind of I guess you just. watch funny videos in your trailer yeah. I think the one way is yeah you shut. down mhm and the other way is you try to. clumsily take over and make people. uncomfortable yeah those are the only.

two those are the only two. options they really are I know but like. hold on I'm gonna take a um lip balm. break do it up because I need my lips. are dry this is brought to you by lip. balm the concept of lip balm the lip. balm Foundation SP promoting all lip. balms everywhere I mean I guess this is. friendship is is is letting your friend. use I know about this because I have a. middle schooler I love. Lan I'm.

I mean the question is like how well do. you have to know someone to let them. stick their finger in I'm try to do that. I just okay you don't want to I don't. want to interesting well I'll think. about that all day you didn't put I'm. afraid it it will wipe off what little. color is left but you're not a. germaphobe I'm not a germaphobe and I. think it's a real unattractive quality. in someone else when they're like a. germaphobe especially in a man in a man. it is such a disgusting steel breaker. like a man who's worried about like I. don't shake hands it's like you're a man. shake hands and then go wash your hands.

you. freak yeah you're the one with poop on. your hands you're the one like who said. anything about poop on their hands until. you. did I don't know I but there's we know a. couple 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 becomes our genuine mental. illness mental illness the thing that's. like you know how they don't like Drive. yeah well well I was I got my license.

had expired and 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 be one of those older ladies that. doesn't drive and I'm like you're right. you're right you're right I do feel now. I love to drive you you I do you do. you're good at driving I drive and your. the name of your car is my car is named. Karen because she's a white. Subaru and and I said this before which. is I feel like Amy came this close to.

being a Karen yes like that yeah 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 bird watching was named Amy at. the same time Amy Cony Barrett was up. and running or getting up and running. there was a lot going on with Amy we. were we missed it by an inch yeah it's a. it's a. real yeah but is there anything you feel. like you see me doing that you should. like I should be careful about warn you.

about that's a good question I think. that is what women do for each other is. they say like hey you know like you know. the pills that you take for your for. flying you shouldn't take them at when. you're not when you're not. flying oh my chair made a farts on that. wasn't me um uh no I feel like I know. what I what um you should tell me about. which is the the especially coming out. of the pandemic my mumbling talking yeah. you're metastized mumbling and sometimes.

and I when I'm thinking really fast like. it really is um uh 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 not. it's not a precursor to some kind of. mental decline 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 um but I'm trying to think if. there I I I don't well I know that I 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 okay what is. it how do I say this without saying. it I want to write it down and show it. to you and you can by the way I have my. computer here you know because that's. what people do with podcasts is they. have their computer because you're. playing Crush yeah and um and you have.

like one window open with I wish we. could do the whole podcast where I say. really um like the wrong information. about everything and then I pretend to. look it up and I verify it in front of. you oh also I wish I was just smoking. weed the whole. time what if I just start lit up a. joint. [Laughter]. okay okay let how do I articulate that. okay I would say there's a certain type. of stride. older.

Showbiz yes that's like listen to me. honey I don't give a [ __ ] and I'm like. oh God just 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 GNA cut my hair and my friend G has. been doing my hair for 30 years he's. like no no you may not well you have the. best hair in the business I people. should know this Grandma hair cam this. is all Tina's hair this is all my hair.

thank you and much like skinny people. who are mad about OIC in the in the. early 2000s when all these [ __ ]. started wearing tracks I was like. what this is my you could just have what. I have this is all I have it is it is. the most incredible real hair I've ever. seen uh we just did this I just did this. show called The Four Seasons that's. coming out in May and uh there's a scene. it's based on this old movie with Alan. Alda and Carol brnette and there's a. scene in the old movie where Carol. brette Carol Bernette is very angrily. brushing her short hair which is so it's.

like the most 1981 thing ever like first. of all we know like you don't vigorously. brush short hair it's G to look terrible. but she's in the scene she's fighting. and she's brushing her hair and I put. the that just a little bit of that in. the in the show I just poke myself in. the eye and um and I kept saying Coleman. Domingo was directing that episode and I. kept saying like Coleman I'll tell you. what a lot of these movie stars they can. act better than me but they can't brush. their hair on camera. cuz they're all wearing [ __ ] wigs and.

they're all wearing and so I like I was. like insisted in the edit that 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 the sound. sound of my hair brushing turn it back. up and that's that's what producing is. that's that's what producing is it's. insanity and narcissism and it's like. turn up my hair turn up the sound of the. brush going through my hair people go we. don't need it and you go we do need it. 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 glass I I don't have a. glasses line because I have to say you. hate money I do kind of hate money I'm. as we know I'm terrible with 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 like if I if. I'm safe and my I have enough money to. live I I have a problem with rich people.

having a side hustle yeah you mean like. a podcast or something no that's is. you're doing work I'm saying if you if. you sold like um where would my line be. for you where would I draw the. line yeah I know what you mean like if I. had a if I had a rosé if you yeah if you. already have like $200 million and. you're like also I need you to but Tina. that is this is where you have to learn. from Jen Z I'm sorry and we have to. don't care they don't they don't judge. it they don't judge it judge it well get.

you should stop because this is the. thing now you have to have a million you. have to have glasses yeah um of well I. have my line of children's. medications and I told you that's so. treacherous no what by the way one time. a million years ago I remember seeing. and I won't name this actress but. someone could figure it out I remember. seeing a 80s actress promoting her line. of homeopathic children's medications I. was like why on this Earth Earth would I. trust an actress yeah for Pediatric.

medications to give to my child yeah. you're saying you worry about turning. into a woman as we get older as you get. older that is like a strident. opinionated here's how it works babe. right kind of person yeah and just. fighting everybody yeah and. just because I just say I just think as. an exercise it's fun to think about our.

personalities like what the thing that. like got us here that here sitting in. front like you and I are lucky enough to. have a lot of years behind us um. hopefully more years in front of us in. working getting to try all this. different stuff we're at a point in our. lives where we get to we're like in this. juicy Middle where we have either. parents who have passed away or aging. parents we have kids who are like coming. into their own we're right in. Hest two middle but we like to say we.

middle although I'm going to 100 um and. God wait you don't want to live to a 100. no unless there's some amazing there. will be okay we'll see like new lungs. there'll be a whole thing money only can. fix your 80s and 90s so much that is the. thing we've traveled on we've we've hung. around a lot of um wealthy older people. and the the thing that they cannot get. over is that they're going to die yeah.

like that's the thing they can't but. who's but who's your guy who do I call. yeah yeah and it's like no one you call. God yeah you call him on the phone and. say yeah but sorry I and he says welcome. to hell um he says welcome God says. welcome to hell um okay um but but do. you want to talk about um Four Seasons. for a second by the way because it is. coming out and Coleman Domingo is a. prince on this Earth an angel on this. Earth God so talented so beautiful.

inside and out like a beautiful human. being um yes so we're doing this show. the four seasons on Netflix I'm very. excited about it it is um based on this. 1981 movie that was written and directed. by Alan Alder another angel on this. Earth can I tell people that I said. hello to alen Alda at your house. recently alen Alda came to my house that. was pretty cool Alan and arene Alda it. was a real lovely wife momentous. occurrence I mean alen Alda was huge in. our lives. yeah he remains huge yeah and he he's.

such a big deal like you can't even. imagine what a giant do you remember the. super. Emmy no one year one year they gave out. a super Emmy so it was like you it was. called a super Emy 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 scre um. script blah blah blah blah blah and the. super Emmy goes to Alan ala for everyone. was like okay that's enough of the super. Emmy they only did it once I think they. only did did it once and is it was it. bigger than a regular go you have to.

have you should call you have him on the. podcast oh he has a great podcast he I. have listened to his podcast it's one of. the few that have penetrated my Fortress. that's what she said um I would love to. talk about it because it was a truly. joyous experience top to bottom like I. one of the things I'm most proud about. of this whole thing was that um so many. people actors and crew came up to me and. were like this is the most Pleasant job. we've ever had um and it was like I said. was built as intentionally as possible. to be all good Souls um and uh it's.

Coleman uh a beautiful Italian actor. named Marco calvani uh Steve Corell Will. Forte Carrie Kenny silver and Erica. henningson and it's basically that. little Ensemble is Ensemble is pretty. much that's it very few day players very. few like no real very few guest stars. and so it was a really cozy environment. and it's a very very gentle program that. I am kind of just can't wait to see if.

people uh are interested in a gentle a a. good hang 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 what we're trying. to do here because I can my nervous. system two two things my nervous system. cannot take it compared to the rest of. the world yes and also I feel like. there's this weird sometimes I mean you. are the exact uh you're the example of.

of of of not doing this I think you like. everything you make is hard jokes and. hard comedy and always really really. funny but a lot of times women spe. specifically are asked to like be like. nurturing caretakers in spaces like be. teachers and and and and and when we. were thinking about this podcast it was. like I I all the guys get to just like. goof around and have fun and it' be. straight comedy escapism and our stuff.

has to be I don't know about menopause. which also is. important yeah this is I. mean for the for the people who want a. 100 jokes per minute this is a departure. these characters are funny and but it's. all completely human scale oo I love. that so again we shall see and I 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. anymore right it's all just like. articles about TV like TV itself is it's.

AI generated. listicles it's Tik Tok 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 one of the things I like to watch. is and again I'm going to keep. referencing Tik Tok I'm not a public. account you will don't find me don't. look for me don't me if anyone's. pretending to be you they're fake it's. fake yeah um but I like to watch videos.

of people either doing or learning or. trying to teach Beyonce's homecoming. dance break 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 hold. holding like a laundry basket yes so. they're just like yeah they're a mom in. their in their laundry room and then. they do it um I have tried to watch. tutorials to try to do I'm not a great. dancer and I I know that if I was given. from now to the end of my life I could.

not learn the first 16 counts of that. dance yeah um but I love watching people. do it and then the other day I was. watching a a 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 a new layer of this and then. the algorithm was like oh you you watch. that so you just want to see videos that. are just like hasht rugby build and it. was just like yeah guys with a rugby.

build and I was like I think I do want. to watch this yeah Paul mesco started. that like he's the ultimate famous rugby. build and then have you seen in rugby. where the they have to pick each other. up with their each other underwear like. know no so in rugby there's a move where. they the men to get the other one. taller you know like to basically it's. almost like if you're 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 has. necessarily picked 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 it's. actually like it almost looks yes it. looks like a lift yeah but they grab. each other and lift each other up and. then their. penis their their dicks are right in the.

line of their face but it's totally fine. it's 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 want to do yeah and. it's in these are in slow motion yes 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. brings me joy is my weekend local news.

in the morning wow I love and by the way. they know this and they're probably like. stop talking about us it's getting weird. I love NBC4 Pat. Battle um Gus. Rosendale uh it is I find to be the most. truly informative nice program on the. whole week here's what you get Amy you. get your news you get your national news. brief briefly you get your local news. mostly local right okay then you get.

produce Pete I love produce Pete Nice. old Italian man comes out tells you. what's in season what to make with it. incredible then it used to be more. frequently before the pandemic before. the pandemic he used to be in person uh. Bill's books nice uh gentleman named. Bill come tells you what he read what he. liked about it what he recommends that. you read uhuh before the Pand 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 and the traffic and. and Pat Battle and Gus 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 friends. if that's what you're implying I would. never but I feel like they they like. being co-workers what a great Pat Battle. Pat Battle have I listen one time it was. like a hurricane or something a. blizzard Pat Battle went out in the. street. in her hometown she went out in where. she lives in New Jersey and she was.

helping people push their cars that's. cool that look that is what America. should be okay it's a It's Pat it's Gus. it's protos Pete it's Bill's books we. help our. neighbors that's the America I want to. live in um if you've got battle in the. last name you got to push some listen. have I invited Pat Battle to events a. 100% 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 and what what was that like. did Sparks Fly I mean she was like. thought it was pretty funny that I keep. bothering her and I'm obsessed with. her but Pat battles in an episode of 30. Rock oh really as herself yeah we did. one episode uh where Liz Lemon gets. invited to like a women in media. luncheon and then of course like the gag. is that they can't they have a big. screen and they can't figure out to get. to work and the all women are all like. turn it on and off.

again and then but it's like it was like. cat battle Gail King um uh a couple. other news ladies and Andrea Martin. played like the lady who was in running. it and she her character has a breakdown. in the middle of the thing and she's. talking about how her husband left her. and she's like I just remember she had. some line where she was like I put it my. Andrea Martin impression get ready okay. 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 that makes me feel. nice and I'm also I'm drinking coffee. I'm with Jeff it's the morning yeah. everything hasn't gone to [ __ ] yet and. the weekend's Al the weekend plans are. all possible but the news but that's new. but the news local listen it's local it. is it's local but even the local oh. everything's on fire yeah but then it's. also like there's a food festival on. City Island that kind ofu it's like. check out these artia chokes he's like. Betty's going to make the squash pie.

called muts. auts speaking of Betty people should. know that that's what I call you that's. that's my nickname for you right you. called me that in front of Colin Jo the. other day and he seemed very delighted. he I can't believe he didn't know that. well we're we're right now he's not. thinking about us enough no does he he. doesn't know what we call each other. private Jo who talk about talk about an. arc Jo when we met Jo did you say anarc. or anarc an arc talk about aarc what.

aarc I was smoking weed and joose called. the police and I was like [ __ ] narc. no um talk about having an arc baby Jo. as we used to call him we met him we. went up to Harvard the Harvard Lampoon. oh see that's where we met him that's I. think where I met him did you I have a. terrible memory I remember I hat it. every minute being at the Harvard lampon. I hat it too what a bunch of dorks we. should just tell the story so a Harvard. Lampoon invites you up and they kind of.

roast you they invite you to come up and. then you go there and then a bunch of. like snively little worms yeah like by. the way like 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 many times have had this. moment where we've turned to each other. and loved or hated something at the same. time and this was definitely example. where we both were like we're not we you. don't like this and they make you go. through this kind of initiation and I.

mean I I wasn't in a sorority in college. no me neither and um I don't get it so. but they made you go through a whole. thing and then they brought us into a. big giant room and they kind of roasted. us yeah and we had we had I think we had. a lot of fun in how much we like did not. engage didn't like it and but but baby. Jo was there that's he was the bab okay. I I don't remember him I we didn't get a. j roast but no he was he was always but.

he went on to um I don't remember any of. the actual people that roasted us I. remember the face of one guy and do he. has he gone on to work in comedy I don't. believe he has yeah I since then you. know why because I you and I both have. like blue collar um yeah uh I guess rage. what what would you call it like. or at at worst chip on her shoulder at. best you're not better than me yeah um I. remember be having two more Harvard. experiences and both involved what I.

felt like like like sniveling guys. roasting me because um uh one was uh the. uh Hasty Pudding where you really do. kind of you know you know what you're. getting into and they kind of come out. and roast you yeah why 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 on that one. and I had really good jokes that I was. proud of and I really crushed them and.

then I was asked to give like one of. those speeches at Harvard and one of the. kids um I mean I've gotten this more. than once and I hope this isn't awkward. for you for me to say it in front of you. but definitely like people like to say. like you're you know you're the poor. man's Tina Fe I know and so um but this. kid said it before right before I went. up so I gave him the. finger which. everyone was shocked about and I don't. know if it was the right I mean I mean I.

did it I guess but I go [ __ ] you and. again I was like you're on AAS Amy like. this is a this is but then [ __ ] Harvard. yeah [ __ ] Harvard [ __ ] Harvard yeah I. mean those [ __ ] [ __ ] but um but. I'm just but thank you for inviting me. it was a real. honor don't lose my number forever go. [ __ ] yourselves yeah definitely is the. kind of thing where like people go to. award shows and they get mad that. they're getting the awards it's like if. you really if you really don't like it. don't go 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 I had dra 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 the I just want you to know the. most hilarious thing was dra could not. get her laptop to turn on or her. headphones to work and then while we. were recording the door doorbell rang. and her dog dog started barking cuz she. had ordered food so there wasn't much.

content that we can use so were there. questions from 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 laugh the hardest. most recently was this clip of Bobby. moan from they did these really great. SNL documentaries and it was uh a. documentary about auditioning for SNL. and and it was people and you were in it. you were great in it and they talk to.

people about the process of auditioning. and then they show them their audition. back and people get emotional people you. know they've never seen it or like oh my. gosh this is from 50 years ago or. whatever and they showed they made Bobby. watch his audition back and he's doing a. character that's in his audition that's. just beyond. inappropriate and he's watching it and. he's he's watching it and he goes oh no. and then he goes oh Bobby and 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 I think it should be. the tick tock sound that people play. like when you have to you have to see a. piece of Comedy that you're like okay we. did we we realize now that that's not. okay you just show the content and just. hear Bob hear the voice of Bobby going. oh. Bobby and that's how you apologize for. problematic content in the past you just. put the OB babby sound over it and it. means I see it I'm sorry mhm 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 made me laugh I. couldn't stop watching. it you can make that get that audio you. should trademark that audio and get make. merch and then the other thing that. zarna had zarna was like you never get. asked Tina never gets ask girly. questions which is so funny I mean do. you feel like you don't get ask early. questions I know like like what's my. skare routine yeah nothing I mean do.

nothing nothing nothing and then. expensive lasers Fred wanted to know. um 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 you I like he's. done it to you he does a thing where he. he he's like a mum he mumbles but when. he comes up the thing about Fred Armon. his impressions are never like they. never make you feel bad yes 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've seen this I 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 um just want like and you're. giving a thought with the script holding. the script to your body and you can't. hear what you're. saying I'm like what percentage Tina. beler am I well remember sh. um Andy's character on that maybe a.

little shyon anyway Fred wanted to know. last question maybe we can talk about. this before you go is your dad like 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 I do. in the summer on I go to Fire Island in. the summer and I like to paint portraits. in my free time and they are terrible. and they're like they're getting. slightly better but not not at a rate um. that would impress like they they're.

terrible um but I love cuz it's the only. thing I want to paint is to tr I want to. try to capture people's faces people. like that I love and um uh I should take. some classes because the of course the. problem is I don't draw the head right. and then they come out like sometimes I. kind of like how wonky they come out but. um uh no I of the four people in my. immediate family I am the least uh. talented at Art uh my daughters are very.

talented Jeff is very can draw and paint. um but uh 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 one of his first few shows and my. dad was coming up and visiting and he. was like standing at 8h while we were. getting ready to rehearse update at that. like five o'clock time and Fred was in a. costume for some other sketch he was in. a tuxedo and my dad had not met him yet. at and he just came up to my dad and was. in a tuxedo and just came up to my dad.

in character just going this is Rainbow. Room I'm I I look for a rainbow room see. I can't tell the story because I can't. shouldn't be doing this accent but Fred. I guess can do it we'll get a robot to. do it get a robot to do it but it was so. funny and your dad was like I don't he. oh he loved it and he used to paint. little portraits little characteres of. Fred as like fericito as Prince and he. would mail them to me and I would give. them to Fred and I think Fred still has. one which is I think what made him think. of that question no way he was Fred's. biggest fan oh Don Fay has great taste.

like he smart artisty really cool guy. and um coming back around if if Fred has. Don Fay Originals I have um in my. children's bedrooms I have paintings. done by Barbara Jo Colin Jo's. grandmother. awesome that's Co so it's back to Jo uh. 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 at a. theatrical venue near you we have a.

bunch of dates in all over the US and. it's been so fun and we're going to have. our buddies out there with us is it Tina. Amy Tina amy.com Tina and amy.com you. would think I would know who would know. I think so I think it is Tina and. amy.com I think so um but uh go check it. out check out our dates come see us and. um hopefully um we'll continue to work. together for another 30 years I hope so. me too love you I love you too thank you. 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 in an. emotional affair with her local. newscasters and that's a problem and I. should let her husband know um we are at. a um a point in the show the end of the. show where we're going to do something. called The Polar Plunge which is um. 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 check out 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 dra. 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 effect and the. audience has this moment where we're all. in it together that moment is still. still thrilling to watch so do yourself. a favor because yes Rachel cracks up and.

you know when people crack up it can be. funny or sometimes it can be annoying or. whatever and you know I grew up with. Carol Bernett and like. loved watching the play that they all. had and how they were all trying to kind. of get each other to laugh but what's so. funny about Debbie Downer in that scene. and why I truly watch it for a serotonin. boost is because r knows what's coming. and she tries her best to keep a.

straight face and that she's like. bursting like a silent film star 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 Burman and. me Amy polar the show is produced by the. ringer and paper kite for the ringer. production by Jack Wilson cat Spain Kaia. McMullen and Alia zenys for paper kite. production by Sam green Joel LEL and. Jenna Weiss Burman original music by Amy.

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