Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as

always for clicking and listening along. I am thrilled to bring you my conversation this week

with the true comedy icon Tina Faye. You know, we've been doing Sunday today on NBC for almost eight years.

She has been near the top of our list of people we wanted to have on as a guest,

and we found the perfect opportunity here with the new Mean Girls movie that is just out to sit down with Tina.

We got together appropriately right near 30 Rockefeller Plaza in a room

bathed in pink because on Wednesdays we wear pink. We conducted the interview on a Wednesday.

That's a line from the classic 2004 movie Mean Girls. I'm not going to bore you with Tina's

entire life story because you already know it. grew up outside Philly, obsessed with comedy, loved SNL, dreamed of it. How was she going to get

there? And then one day she was sitting in an office with Lauren Michaels being interviewed for

the job in the place where she would become head writer and so much more. So she wrote,

of course, Mean Girls, the 2004 movie that starred Lindsay Lohan,

becomes this iconic movie, still quoted, still a touchtone for teenagers, and now she's out

with the movie musical version of it. In between, there was a Mean Girls musical on Broadway,

written along with her husband, Jeff

Richmond, a great composer and musician who did the music for it. And this movie, the new one,

kind of brings those two together, the original movie and the musical. So I'm just getting

out of the way here. You don't need a big wind up. You know Tina Faye. You love Tina Faye. So sit back, relax, and enjoy Tina right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast. Thanks for doing this, Tina. Thank you for having me. It's nice to see you. We're very pink because it's Wednesday. Thank you. Right. This will air on a Sunday, but just know this was filmed on a Wednesday. Exactly. And on Wednesdays, some of us wear pink.

I'm sorry, I didn't have anything.

You know what? We will add it in post. We'll make your short pink in post. We can colorize it. It's so fun to be sitting here talking about this movie, which I absolutely loved. Thank you so much. It's so good. people are going to just be obsessed with it as they were with the original. Is it odd for you to be sitting here 20 years later talking about this idea you had all those years ago? It is a little odd. You know, in some days I feel like it was a minute

ago. And some days I'm like, no, it was about 20 years ago. I didn't have kids and now I

have kids that are very large. So it makes it been about 20 years, but I definitely didn't

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