Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down

podcast. My thanks is always for clicking and listening along. I am thrilled to bring you my

conversation this week with the true comedy icon Tina Fay. 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 gonna

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 gonna 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 Lowohan becomes this iconic movie still quoted still a touch

tone for teenagers and now she's out with the movie musical version of it.

In between, there was a mean girl's 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 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 Fay. You love Tina

So sit back relax and enjoy Tina right now on the Sunday Sit Down

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