Tina Fey and Robert Carlock

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Hey! It's Tina Fey and Robert Carlock - the legendary co-creating and writing team behind 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, two of the funniest TV shows ever! Tina and Robert join us to talk about their new Netflix special, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs The Reverend, an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure style special episode. Plus: SNL, 30 Rock, and why the teeth are the outside bones! Not the inside bones!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.0	Coming to you from my house in Los Angeles, it's Bullseye.
0:15.2	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:23.9	Well folks, what you're about to hear is an interview with Tina Fey and Robert Carlock,
0:29.2	two of my actual comedy heroes.
0:31.6	They co-created 30 Rock, of course, a show that revolutionized TV comedy, a show with
0:36.6	more great jokes per minute than basically anything that came before it.
0:41.0	A show that still might be the funniest thing ever to run on TV, and a show that for
0:46.4	better or worse immortalized the phrase.
0:52.6	After it ended in 2011, Fey and Carlock followed up 30 Rock with Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
0:58.4	You know that show, right?
0:59.9	The sitcom about a woman who spent much of her childhood captive in a bunker run by a
1:05.2	cult leader?
1:06.8	It's also hilarious and brilliant.
1:26.9	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt wrapped its fourth and final season early last year, but it's
1:31.4	back.
1:32.4	Tina and Robert reunited the cast for a special called Kimmy vs. The Revrent.
1:37.8	And in it, you get to decide Kimmy's fate.
1:40.6	It's interactive, like a choose your own adventure book, but on TV.
1:44.8	Should Titus Herum make take an Uber or walk, for example?
1:48.6	Does Kimmy want to make out with her guy or plan her wedding?
1:52.2	What kind of wedding dress will Kimmy wear?
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