Tina Fey on Creating the Return of "Mean Girls" (January 2024)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Tina Fey sat down with Willie to talk about the return of “Mean Girls” 20-years later with a musical movie. She discusses writing, producing, and starring in both movies after becoming a comedy icon through writing for "SNL". (Original broadcast date January 14, 2024.)

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down
0:08.7	podcast. My thanks is always for clicking and listening along. I am thrilled to bring you my
0:14.5	conversation this week with a true comedy icon, Tina Fay. I'm just getting out of
0:20.4	the way here. You don't need a big wind up. You know Tina
0:23.2	you love Tina. So sit back relax and enjoy Tina right now on the Sunday
0:28.4	Sit Down podcast. Thanks for doing this Tina. Thank you for having me. It. Great to see you.
0:33.0	It's nice to see you.
0:34.0	We're very pink because it's Wednesday.
0:36.0	Thank you.
0:37.0	This will air on a Sunday, but just know this was filmed on a Wednesday.
0:40.0	Exactly. And on Wednesdays, some of us were pink.
0:42.0	I'm sorry, you know, I didn't have anything.
0:44.8	You know what, we will add it in post.
0:47.4	You can make your short pink in post.
0:50.1	It's so fun to be sitting here talking
0:51.6	about this movie, which I absolutely loved. Thank you so much. It's so fun to be sitting here talking about this movie which I absolutely loved.
0:54.0	Thank you so much.
0:55.0	It's so good. People are going to just be obsessed with it as they were with the original.
0:58.8	Is it odd for you to be sitting here 20 years later talking about this idea you had
1:04.4	had all those years ago?
1:05.6	It is a little odd, you know, and some days I feel like it was a minute ago and some days I'm like,
1:11.6	no, it was about 20 years ago I didn't have kids and I have kids that are very large
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