Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. Perhaps you can hear the excitement in my voice today because I've got a conversation with one of my favorite people on Earth, the great Jane Krakowski. She's incredibly talented. She's incredibly funny. She's incredibly charming. And we've

got a good long talk with her for you today. She's got so much going on. I'll try to remember it all.

She's hosting Name That Tune, a new updated version of Name That Tune with Randy Jackson,

leading the band. She stars in a pair of Apple TV Plus series, one called Shmigadoon, which plays into

her theater and musical roots, where basically the plot is this couple wanders through the forest

and happens upon an entire world. They can't escape from where everyone is living in an old Broadway

musical. Need I say more? She also plays Emily Dickinson's mother

in the Apple TV Plus series Dickinson. She's got so much going on, as always. You've known

her since she was a kid. She started in a soap opera when she was super young, got nominated

twice for Emmys. She was cousin Vicky in Vacation, one of the great movies of all time,

and one of the most memorable characters in that awesome movie.

Then she's in Allie McBeal, 30 Rock, the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

She's done so much in her life to say nothing of her career on Broadway, where she won a Tony Award in 2003.

She truly does it all, and she's just so fun to be around and so fun to talk to.

We got together at a rooftop bar and restaurant in New York City, kind of a garden on a nice,

breezy summer day. You're going to hear some background noise, as you've gotten used to on this

podcast. We're sitting outside in New York City, so there'll be some fire trucks and some

garbage trucks backing up, maybe some light crime out on the streets. Who knows what we're in for? I think, though, you'll enjoy this conversation again with one of the all-time greats and just such a fun person to be around. It is Jane Krakowski right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast. Hi, really? Hi, Jane. How are you? It's so good to see you. It's so great to see you unmasked. In the flesh, in person. My hero, unmasked. In a garden on a rooftop in New York. Just the way we always get together, right? Yeah. I like to close all places that we're going to be in together, Willie, just, you know, to see

whatever comes up. Probably wise. You never know what's going to happen. You never know what's going to happen. I was starting. This is the latest I've ever seen you. Let's be honest. I usually see you very early in the morning. That is true. So we've co-hosted some Today Show together over the years. Great highlights of my career and life.

We were just talking about your entrance

for people who may not recall.

The first time you hosted, I was saying some great highlights of my career and life. We were just talking about your entrance for people who may not recall.

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