Amy Poehler
Appearances
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And then you say, oh, can you help me change my tire? And they're like, we can't. I'm so sorry.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
My my my fun name drop of that weekend, which was really fun, was there were so many people that people to share dressing rooms. So I was sharing my dressing room with Meryl Streep. Oh, my God. And I'm like, you know, just like a fan, I took a picture of the door that said my name and Meryl Streep. She was, you know, getting ready for her sketch and really rehearsing it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And I remember thinking, I never rehearsed as hard as Meryl Streep has in this one moment.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Be loud. That's what I wanted to say. Just be loud. Yes. And then in the seats, which, you know, is a night of all famous alumni and people. I sat down and I turned to my left and it was Jack Nicholson. Yes. And I was like, of course, my old friend, my dear friend, Jack Nicholson.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
I feel like that's what success is, is being able to perform at an event in front of your comedy heroes and, you know, give like a B minus performance and not want to die. That's success. Yes. It is because it's happened so many times in my life now where I've had to do the AFI tribute or something in front of Steve Martin and I walk away and go, well, that was a B minus.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
You might be being a little hard on yourself. I can think of hard, hard B minuses.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
It was cool. Sharna Halpern, who was this woman running that theater at the time, said to both of us, oh, I know a woman that you would like. And she just put us on an improv team together. And I knew Tina was from Philly. And I knew she had written a really funny play about Catherine the Great and her intimate relationship with her horse. I knew she was really smart and funny.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
But when we met, we just kind of, we don't actually, we were on the road doing a show and we kind of talk about how we don't actually remember the exact moment we met. Right. Because we didn't know we'd be married for so long. Right. And so in love. But but we just got put in an improv team and we just instantly and I think this is the case today, just worked together so well.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Like we like we like to work the same way, which, you know, when you work with people, there's a language that you have and how you like to work and you either kind of have it or you don't. And if you do have it, it's it's the best.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
You know, because I feel like I've given you credit for this. So tell me if you've said this. Yes, I did. You did. But we talk about this and you saying this a lot, which is, you know, when you're doing comedy, you have to have good jokes all the time and new jokes all the time. And then you see musicians go up and sing their song. Yes.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Man, if I could just go up and sing a hit over and over again.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
That is a good marriage. Their marriage has lasted all these years. Dorothea. I know everything about her. Yeah, she's very cool. Yes, Dorothea. Yes, well aware of Dorothea. Looked her up all the time. She's very cool.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
I mean, Dorothea has seen a lot, probably a lot more threatening people throwing themselves at John than me. But their marriage is strong. I believe it is. And I love Jon Bon Jovi. I mean, I went to Bon Jovi when I was in high school. I even wrote a sketch about it at SNL where when he hosted, Jon Bon Jovi came out of the poster in my...
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
childhood bedroom and i dressed up like i looked when i was 13 and john bon jovi the musician went into his storage and wore the same outfit that was on the poster is still fit so he keeps it really tight and that's why dorothea is still interested
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Well, I would say in response to you saying about good jokes, I think you and I could probably say that we both came up at a time when the writer was king and writers were really important at SNL and they were really important on your show.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And not only do I like some of them are here in the building and I work with some of them forever, but they were also writer performers and had a bunch of them on the show and same at SNL. Like it just was you just can't go in with flimsy material. You have to just keep trying jokes, which I'm sure you're getting ready to do for the Oscars and everything like over and over again.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
You would have a what? A knife? Well, I mean, if it was, I carried a knife back then. You always bring, yeah, you always were flashing your knife.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
But it's Brookline, so it's a cheese knife. It's for cutting cheese and having parties and stuff.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Yeah, well, you bring up my dad, but I do think it's true. Like your family of origin helps you kind of decide the boundaries of your life, right? Like what you're allowed to do. And I had a kind of like a paper moon relationship with my dad where he was very like on the move and took me with him kind of vibe. So he definitely instilled a lot of confidence and almost like a hustle.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
that didn't feel very gendered at the time. It wasn't like I was supposed to be this or, you know, he kind of, both my parents were very funny. There was a lot of encouragement to speak my mind, to kind of be a little bit of a challenger, which I didn't think was unusual until I did learn other people's systems.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Like every family is a country with its own set of rules and you don't know that that's true until you leave your country and you're like, oh, your family, you know, your dad is the one that you know, everybody ignores or you're the older brother is right.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
The older brother's moods dictate the house, you know, dictate the mood of the house or, oh, in your family, you have to be polite and never tell the truth. Whatever is everyone's version of their thing. And I came from a family, I have to say, that really encouraged joking and teasing, which is a very Boston thing.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And I it wasn't until I left that and went to other, like went to college that I realized that's not everybody's way of life.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Or have you ever seen families, I'm thinking of a specific family, when it would be their birthday, they would stand up and they'd give the most heartfelt toast. Like, you are my sister. You're the person who, and it's so heartfelt. And you're like, this happens once and it happens at somebody's funeral when everybody's left. Yeah. Like this is so intense to like the eye contact.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And like teasing for me is a love language. Like the more I like you, the more I'll tease. And manners are for people that I don't know or don't even really like. Like, hi, how are you? But the tease to me shows that there's a familiar way and it's just the ultimate sign of love. But that's not the case with a lot. No, I've learned the hard way.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
But the Irish in me loves laughing and crying right next to each other. That's my favorite thing is being sad. And then someone saying something truly ridiculous or out of pocket in the moment that makes everybody laugh. That's, I think, very Irish.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Just getting as low as you can and going to the lowest basement and then finding the joke there and like shooting it up so that everybody can drink more. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Big time. Yeah, every year we thought we were gone. For maybe the first four or five out of the seven seasons we were on. Because our show was on the table, hooked up to machines. And then a new show would come wheeling in next to us.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Parks and Rec's still here. Totally. We had about five upfronts where it was like, this is the next new big show. And we would watch it come in so hot with tons of marketing and then it would die. And we would just be like, beep, beep, beep. And so we hung in there and long enough until finally, like season five started.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
like your show like critically we were very loved but we were always worried we were going to get canceled and although we would all give anything to have those numbers now whatever yes um it was like you know we have a 3.8 or whatever and i was like this is a disaster you know um but uh then streaming happened started to happen um it all started to like dovetail at the same time i
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Yeah. That's for sure. Yeah. That's sketch in a nutshell, too. So much of it is just like, how are you? What's your batting average? Like it's you're going to you're going to you're going to get one out of three good sketches if you're lucky. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I feel like Parks was like that, the trajectory of that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And getting back to your show for a second, what was so exciting about being there at the beginning? Not only was one of our own, like Andy was our, was an improviser that we knew who suddenly could. Yeah, from Chicago who could buy an apartment and we could go over to it. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Yes. And it was just right. New York, like, you know, early 90s, like David Rakoff and Amy Sedaris. And, you know, all these like people that were kind of coming through and just starting out as well in different ways. It was it felt very chic. And then also, truly, your show allowed me to pay my rent, get health insurance, tell my parents that I was going to be on TV, all the beginnings of that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
It got me so many jobs. People saw, I think, my first movie, which was the world-famous Deuce Bigelow. Very, very proud of my performance in that. But I remember I killed it, killed it. But Rob Schneider, I think, saw me like on your show. And I think that stuff helped me when we were selling UCB the sketch show. It was it was just such a huge deal. And I can remember, you know, under six.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And remember that, like, you know, if you had under six lines on on Conan show, you got paid a certain amount of money. And then if you got over six.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
You got paid like 100 bucks more, you know, because of SAG minimums and stuff. It was a huge deal. We did a ton of staring contests. Yeah, yeah. A ton of bits. I think my first thing was I was under a giant, me and John Benjamin were under giant foam rubber Conan and Andy outfits. Yeah. And we had to run around a track all day or something.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
I learned so much on that show. I learned how to like, you know, get ready for a bit, how to not peak too early, how to figure out what the audience, like, you know, just basically how to play the rhythm of the audience. Like I, it, Camera blocking, all that stuff I knew nothing about.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
I think I was I don't think I was ever hesitant. But at the time I had auditioned for a couple of things that were and I and I had this stress of almost like this good girl stress of like, I can't say no to these other things that might happen. And they were all L.A. jobs because it was during pilot season.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And I remember thinking, what if I tell the people I told them yes and I have to tell them no. Like I was very stressed about that. But I don't remember waiting very long. And, you know, I had the privilege of Tina really vouching for me. She was already there. And Dratch and Horatio and people that were there who kind of were able to say, like, she might be a good hire. Take a look at her.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
No, it must have been four, I think, because then, but I'm not sure. Well, I need to know. I know.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
It's all a blur. It doesn't help me. I'm so sorry. Six, five, four.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
I'm sorry, Conan. Two, one. Great. It was 15 years that you did it. Yeah, but I came in after Jimmy left. And, you know, like, the fun thing about that show is people leave and people think, how is this show going to go on? And it just does. It keeps going on.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Like, you know. I started in 2001, two weeks after September 11th, when the whole country was like, we're never going to laugh again. Right. Comedy's over. That's it. That's a wrap. And I remember thinking, um...
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Well, that's why I'm happy to be here today and why I'm starting a podcast, too, is because all I want to do now is laugh. That's it. Like I need I want to be around people who like up regulate me. I want to find joy in things. It's been a rough and rowdy 10 years. And I just feel like it's I just need to find for my own mental health that kind of thing.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
What's been the best part of doing this? Like, what have you found?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
It is fun. And I would say I would posit a deeper thing there is that it's connection, like it's actual intimacy and connection, which I do think we're very hungry for. Yes. Everything feels very front facing and very external and like out into the world. And I do think we're lonelier than ever.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
I love that she loves Below Deck. That's a sign of a smart lady. I do not watch a lot of reality TV. I don't like people getting embarrassed. And people get embarrassed on every reality show. But I don't like fake drama. But what I like about Below Deck, and I wonder if your wife feels the same, is when they clean the boat. I'm sure that's it. They have to turn over the boat.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
They have to get it clean. And every time it's like, are they going to make it? So there's some weird thing where your brain, it's almost like watching a set be reset. You're watching it get reset. Yes. And I like clear delineations of power, who is in charge. So there is a captain. Like whether or not you like the captain, you know, that's your problem. But the chain of command is very clear.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And there's the head, you know, there's the head of the, I should know all these names having watched it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Exactly. And so people have to report to each other. And that kind of status stuff really makes me laugh. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And then what do you have to do at the end? You've got to clean the boat. Yeah. You've got to turn it over. You've got to get the sheets done. You've got to spray the deck and the aft. You can't just, you've got to clean it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Oh, my God. By the way, I would watch the shit out of that. If you ASMR'd this table and you put soap on it and then you washed it. Wiped it down. And then spilled marbles on it. And then the sound of the marbles and you had to pick the marbles up.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Yeah, and if these mics could be made out of kinetic sand, I would appreciate that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Yeah, there's, I mean, I don't, but I can't, I don't really watch any other, I don't like any, I don't like people being embarrassed or stressed on TV. It gets me very stressed.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Yeah, pranks feel very Gen X. Like, we grew up with a lot of pranks, like Candid Camera and then later on, you know, Knoxville and... Ashton Kutcher and Jackass. And Jackass and Punch. So we had a lot of pranks in our life and maybe we just got pranked out. Pranked out. But I don't like pranks. And if someone did a prank to me, I would feel like they hate me. Yes. Like, I would feel super sad.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Yeah. Like, I've never, I don't even, I've never had a surprise birthday thrown for me. The one time, I think it was going to happen. I found out and I kind of put a kibosh on it. Because to me, a surprise party is an evil, evil act of treachery.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Please. Thank you for saying that. I would love to have you on.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
I do, too. And I have to say, like, the beginnings of things are the most tender time where everybody's the most tender.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And you were so kind to not only me, but UCB and everybody during that time. You gave a lot of us our start. So thank you very much. I'm glad I get to say that to you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Yes. And you did make me sign something that I regret. I really regret. You're like Simon Cowell. Yeah, I am. Conan owns half of my house.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Thank you so much for having me. It was so fun, guys. Thank you so much.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Hi, my name is Amy Poehler, and I feel nostalgic about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
You paid my rent. Yeah. I mean, are you kidding? I would have done it. I mean, it's funny that you say it that way, because isn't it funny when you look back at, I mean, what must be almost 30 years now?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Yeah, because I moved to New York when I was in 96. Is I never remember a time when you were like a fledgling new show. I mean, you were just always like the hit show. That's so funny. I know. I don't remember it being like we have to practice and get things ready because I knew Andy Richter from Chicago. But in my mind, I don't have a memory of it ever not being a successful show.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And honestly, let's play F. Mary Kill with Masturbating Bear, Pimp, Bot, and Andy's little sister.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
See how we do. Yeah. Let's fuck them all. Yeah. That's right.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
yes we had some books and my butterfly collection but I think you told me once I could be wrong that you worked at the Chestnut Hill Mall yeah I worked at a bunch of different places in high school I always had a summer job but I worked at the Chestnut Hill Mall at a restaurant called Paparazzi yeah which was you know a very like it was probably one of the fancier restaurants I had worked at up until that point breadsticks yes
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Ooh. And, you know, I learned words like cavatappi. I still don't know what that means.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
That's a type of pasta. Or, you know, yeah, I learned mise en place.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
I worked. There used to be a pewter pot in my town. A pewter pot. But I worked at Chadwick's, which was an ice cream place on the border of Lexington and Waltham. And very famously, an ice cream, like old-fashioned ice cream place. You bang a drum when it's someone's birthday. Oh. And you wear old timey outfits. Yes, yes. And Rachel Dratch worked at Chadwick's a few years ahead of me.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
We never met because then the, you know, simulation wouldn't have worked out.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
I did, and I still think you do have one. You think I do have one? And I still think I have one. I mean, just, it's super slight, but don't you feel like you can pinpoint people from Boston?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Even just saying Boston, the way you say Boston. But every once in a while I hear it, and every once in a while I hear it on my, for me, and for me it's usually when I'm angry. That's when it comes out. Yeah. Which makes sense.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
I blame Brookline for this because, I mean, there is a way to dig into the accent that once you get in there, it's almost like you can never get out.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
The best and worst thing about Boston is there's a feeling of like, you're not better than me. You know, like, we're all the same. We're all in this together. Boston Strong. Hi, how are you?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
But it's like, you're doing well, Amy, huh? Like, it's very, it's aggressive love.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And it's very nice to feel. And also, it's sometimes scary. Well, I told you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
No. Yeah. It's very. I mean, I look, I all my relatives still live in in Boston. I love going back there. It is it is this thing where Boston really doesn't want you to forget. No. And also Boston is the thing where they talk about neighboring towns as if anyone would know what they're talking about. Like Boston feels like the center of their own world.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
So they'll throw out towns and stuff happening to people that are from Michigan. And it's like, no one knows what you're talking about. But Boston is, they are their own center.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Totally. I feel like and also there's just a there's something about the the vibe there that you I mean, this is something I really like about it. And New York is very similar to which is there's a directness to how people talk to each other and how what they expect of each other. So they're kind of like kind, but not nice. Yes. And California is nice, but not always kind.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
So it's confusing here because people are friendly, but they're not really nice. But there, they're like, I got to go. I can't help you. You got to keep walking. Everyone's telling you to hurry up, but they're very kind.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
Hi, everyone. Welcome to Good Hang. I'm Amy Poehler, and we have a great guest today. It is Martin Short, the hilarious and kind and generous and just deeply talented person who I grew up loving and love even more now as a grown adult. We're going to talk to Marty, as his friends call him, about Canada and the SNL 50th and Only Murders in the Building and...
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
It's so smart. And I'm just curious, maybe I can have her on here and ask, what is the... Bob Balaban, that was the third guy. Oh, yeah, Bob Balaban. I love Bob Balaban.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
He's such a good actor. I'd be so curious about what made Selena sign on for another TV show. It must have been you and Steve. She must have known she was signing on to something premier and funny.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
Yeah, we need the CVV. We need the DVD. Jost, I don't know if you know, but I already did a podcast with Tina, who nicely came in to be interviewed. I look forward to doing one with you. Maya, I look forward to doing one with you. Yes. And Jost, you were name dropped in the interview that Tina and I did. We were talking about... How much we love going to the Lampoon.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
Interesting. Well, maybe we have that in common because I feel like people are afraid of Tina and not afraid of me. And I want them to be more afraid of me.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
But do you want people to be more afraid of you or do you like that they're afraid of Steve?
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
I know why. Oh, you do? I think it's because Steve just doesn't talk as, I think the power move is to not talk as much. The quieter you are... So that's my big problem.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
And we're like, hey, this is us. This is me. This is me. This is me. And you just have to stay quiet. And everybody projects everything on you.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
There were a few women at that SNL 50th that I was really missing that I really wish I could meet because I have never met. One of them was Gilda and the other was Jan. Never met either one. Never met Jan. And she was the Kristen Wiig or Kate McKinnon of the cast when I was growing up. Jan was so talented, such a good actress, so funny.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
Yeah. I missed her, and I loved Lorraine and Jane holding up Gilda's picture.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
I had a great moment with Lorraine and Jane where I didn't know Lorraine that well. I've just kind of seen her at events over the years, and I felt very...
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Martin Short
Totally. Yeah. Damn, and I felt that. I felt that. But her and Jane, she shared two things with me that I loved. One was just a small detail, but I loved it. She's like, Jane and I are getting ready together. Which I just love. That's a very girl thing. Like who are you doing hair and makeup with for the party? And Jane and Lorraine were getting ready together, which just warmed my heart.
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Martin Short
So we're doing this thing where we're asking people to kind of talk behind people's back in a good way. So I've got the great Martin Short on today. Never heard of him. And you've all worked with, yeah.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
Like I love that. And also they just both seemed great. And I was like, I said, you two look great. You seem great. And we kind of had a moment where we said, you know, women know how to age. Like they do better with aging than men.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
But that's, I think, I think we get a little confused that, well, maybe I'm wrong, but we live in Los Angeles and we see that a lot. But the rest of, like your average people in the country.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
I'm sure. Women, like look at women, look at men and women when they turn 50. It's, it can be difficult. It's, I don't know. Every school reunion, high school reunion I went to, the women look pretty great. And the men.
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Martin Short
That I don't even mind. Who's the most handsome bald person?
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
Anna and Will killed as Bobby and Marty at that music thing. Oh, my God.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
Today. And Anna was doing a great impression of Paul playing them the part because it was like he was playing, yeah, 45 songs at once. And it was a complete chaos and they crushed it. And to me... Tina and I were talking about this after. To me, there was something very proud of... I felt very proud of all of us.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
I don't know why, but it felt like a win for all of us that these two great sketch comedians came out. I mean, I feel this way when I watch you work and when you and Steve are together. Like, can come out and just settle a crowd and just... It just... Own the room. There's a joy when people are not nervous.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
Yeah, I like him. I think you should check him out. I think he's funny. I found him on TikTok. Oh. So I guess my question is what, yeah, you know, how much do you love Martin short? What do you love about him? What do you think I should ask him?
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Martin Short
Incredible. Like, Fred can do these physical things the slightest.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
Fred used to send me long texts about his flight schedule, like when he was arriving, what airport, what time to get picked up as if I was picking him up from the airport.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
He is so deeply funny. He also does a bit that I love where, if you haven't seen him for a long time at a party, and you go, hey, Freddie, he goes, hi, how are you? He pretends you're just a fan bothering him. He's so funny. He loves a bit.
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Martin Short
Yeah. But people feel that way about you. People feel... Like, the way... even we were talking earlier with Maya and Tina and Joe. So like people feel that way about you, Marty, of all the funny people, people think you're the funniest.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
I agree that I think Fred is like genuinely one of the funniest people I know, but, I think you are too. The thing that I love about watching you is, and I don't know, maybe you're faking it, but I feel like the lesson I learned at SNL and beyond is if you are enjoying yourself, people will enjoy themselves.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Martin Short
But people don't really apply that often into the work that they do and even into the comedy that they do.
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Martin Short
Yeah, that's deep. I remember Lauren telling me when I was doing Update, You have to do a version of yourself for update. Yeah. Yeah, a removed version of yourself. Are you doing lip balm? Yeah, it's dry.
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Martin Short
Yeah, I mean, I can't do it. That's too rude. But if my guest pulls out lip balm.
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Martin Short
I love a lip balm. It's one of the things about L.A. that really crushes me is how dry it is here.
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Martin Short
I've been to some of those lakes you talk about outside of Toronto, and it does not get warm ever. Oh, it does?
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Martin Short
How dare you? You motherfucker. I do a cold plunge, motherfucker, every day.
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Martin Short
A girl thing to be cold? No, no one's going to be mad about that.
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Martin Short
No, I have a high tolerance for cold. I proudly got into cold plunging like five years ago, and I do it all the time now.
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Martin Short
No, I slowly built up. It was during COVID, and I was genuinely, I was so anxious.
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Martin Short
Truthfully, I was so anxious and depressed during COVID that I was trying all these different things. And so I would do the sauna, and the cold plunge was about 48, 49 degrees.
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Martin Short
Same. I don't do it any colder. Maybe the coldest is like 47.
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Martin Short
It's cold. And I started by just like going in and out, in and out for years and then building up. And now I can do a couple of minutes. And it is, I cannot recommend it enough.
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Martin Short
I want to talk about your tour because Tina and I are on tour. I know. And we asked you for advice. I don't know if you remember or maybe.
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Martin Short
You did. Well, you said you gave good advice. You gave a lot of good advice. But because we've been doing a show on tour, it's been the best. Oh, it's the most fun. It's a dream come true.
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Martin Short
And I know this sounds silly, but because I was never a touring stand-up or a musician, I don't think I ever sold tickets where people knew they were going to get me. You know, I was either part of an ensemble, part of a sketch group, part of an improv show, or I was hosting something that it wasn't. So the...
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Martin Short
The fact that people show up already knowing that you are who they want to see, it just gets so much out of the way.
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Martin Short
I know it's, it's the silliest, most obvious thing, but I realized our first show, Oh, people knew it was going to be just us.
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Martin Short
And they paid to see us. And there's a, like a, a, an honest exchange between your performance and their ticket. Like, I do the show for you. You come and pay for it. Like, it feels very honest, whereas I feel... Well, see, that's the other thing.
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Martin Short
We have, like, tons of women who come with their friends or mothers who are bringing their daughters.
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Martin Short
And... We're the same. When we're done with the show, we look at each other and we're like, we gave them a good show. Oh, absolutely. That's what we feel good about. Yeah. I know.
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Martin Short
What was it like? Like a lot of people in comedy, I I obsess about those early Toronto days and you all together.
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Martin Short
Crazy. I mean, one of the questions Jost wanted me to ask you was, who was sleeping together that we didn't know about? You don't have to answer. But he wanted me to ask you.
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Martin Short
Yes, it's so good. I mean, that period of time with all the people that you were there with, because you were there with who? Paul?
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Martin Short
I mean, can I ask you a little bit about Gilda? Because we talked about Jam, but the things I hear about Gilda... and it just might be my projection, but I just feel like I would really love her.
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Martin Short
What I can't always balance is like how, like you said something about her one time about like she just was so comfortable with her own, just the story you told, her own weirdness and strangeness, like her own, like she really knew.
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Martin Short
Do you have an hour? But were you anxiously attached? Were you an avoidant?
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Martin Short
Wow, I've got to look at the image of that. Is it just him or one of his characters? I wonder.
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Martin Short
You say something really beautiful, which is you did have, you had a lot of loss early in your life and you learned that lesson that some people learn and take away, which is, you know, we are here once you've got to figure, you know, like we have to enjoy life.
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Martin Short
And you just might have been built that way. There's just like your nervous system was.
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Martin Short
But don't you feel like that's the, I mean, for me anyway, that is the thing about getting older is realizing, oh, the simple lesson over and over again that we all process differently. Like I cannot. get someone to be happy if they're not. Or I can't get myself.
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Martin Short
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's some kind of version of what you talk about, that joy of being alive that does come out in the stuff that you do. And also what I love about you is you also play very, how do I say this, like sharp and biting characters. Like you're also really funny at playing people who are not rooting for you. But we love, like, okay, Jiminy.
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Martin Short
And Jiminy, to me, is a very familiar person in the world in the past 20, 30 years of, like, press that I've had to do.
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Martin Short
That kind of person who, to your point, king of his kingdom.
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Martin Short
And you come to them, and this is how we do things, and they're inquisitive but, like, mean, and they hate women.
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Martin Short
Like, I think that's what I'm getting to is, do you think you are meaner than people think you are?
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Martin Short
So I'm going to ask him about a stamp. Tina, Jost, anything you feel like I should ask him or anything you want to say about Marty?
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Martin Short
This is a great, great moment, though. I mean, Jiminy is the videos that people watch, that my people watch to – Check, like to just get a huge serotonin boost. Like it is Jiminy videos all the way. We, Tina and I, all of us send each other those videos almost every week. Still.
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Martin Short
And the guests, it was completely, like they didn't know our questions.
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Martin Short
Now... God, Jiminy forever. Jiminy forever. You have a stamp in Canada.
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Martin Short
All heroes of mine. I was 12 in 82. Were you on SNL? What year were you on SNL?
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Martin Short
When I started 2001, I started two weeks after 9-11. Wow. That was the time when it was like, you know, will we ever laugh again? Comedy is dead.
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Martin Short
And I remember thinking, but maybe not. Maybe it's, you know, maybe we should still laugh. Yeah, my first show was the Giuliani show with the first responders on stage.
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Martin Short
Reese Witherspoon, musical guest Alicia Keys. Wow. And that was September 29th or something, 2001. God. And it was like the beginning of any job. It's like, where are the bathrooms? How does this work? How do you get anything on? And we're not going to do anything political for three years. Comedy is over. New York is hurting. There's anthrax in the building.
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Martin Short
But isn't it interesting that that happened then? COVID happens. over and over again, this idea that how can we get through this? People have personal tragedies in their life. It's like over and over again, we think, how can I get by And for me, and maybe for you, comedy just continues to be the thing that I think pushes people through.
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Martin Short
That is... The fact that somebody feels like you can take the tease is the highest compliment.
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Martin Short
And Tina and I have a different dynamic. We don't really insult each other.
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Martin Short
I don't know if any, if you notice this at all, but there's a lot of, this is my personal fake food, some of my personal fake food collection. So we've been trying to figure out how to make the studio feel homey.
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Martin Short
Well, let's talk about it for a second while we just have a second.
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Martin Short
So this is a, for people who might be watching this rather than listening to it, there's a tiny little paper box of Cheez-Its.
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Martin Short
And you think, oh, it's just a teeny tiny miniature box of Cheez-Its. There can't be anything in there.
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Martin Short
It does have an icy. You know what? When I have a tiny box of Nutri-Grain bars.
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Martin Short
No, it's just a silly little box. It couldn't be an actual Nutri-Grain bar with an anthropomorphic face that's winking at you. Let's see if we can see that, right?
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Martin Short
And not to make it a big deal, but this isn't real. This is a candle. It's fake bread, and it looks like a candle.
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Martin Short
Put it in your mouth and tell me what's fake. That's how I get them.
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Martin Short
But look, a simple felt fake garlic. This isn't garlic. This is felt.
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Martin Short
Listeners, Marty is putting a fake felt tomato in one of his eyes and pretending he's a pirate. It's this kind of prop stuff that's great for podcasts.
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Martin Short
People make so much money doing clickety-click things with microphones, but not with a fake egg.
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Martin Short
We will definitely finish, yeah. And they've been very nice. Yeah.
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Martin Short
Big pancakes. They just said, someone just said to me, great job and let's finish the week. That's what someone said to me. And I take that as a good sign.
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Martin Short
So my last question to you is, and I'm asking a lot of people this, what is the thing you, like, where do you get your serotonin? What do you look at, watch, listen to? Where do you go? Who do you hang with? I mean, you're very funny friends, but, you know, what is something that you, like, genuinely laugh at, that you watch or consume?
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Martin Short
Do you have anything you like now that you're watching – Anything that's making you laugh.
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Martin Short
In Dogecatcoin. Well, that was an awesome interview with Martin Short. He is the best. And now it's time for something we're calling the Polar Plunge, which is basically how do you get how do you change your day? How do you make yourself feel better? I do like to jump into cold water. I know it's weird, but I have a podcast, so I have to do it.
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Martin Short
But I think one way to like change the molecules in your brain and give you a serotonin boost is to laugh. And There is no better laugh for me than Jiminy Glick. So do yourself a favor and watch that character played by Martin Short in a variety of videos online. Jiminy Glick interviewing Bill Hader when he stepped in for Jimmy Kimmel is so funny.
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Martin Short
Hader cannot stop laughing and he just loves getting teased. And that kind of teasing between people who are mutually respectful of each other is like my favorite kind of love language. Um, so yeah, Martin Short, thank you for Jiminy Glick, the gift that keeps on giving. And, um, if you have never watched that character, please binge it now. Thanks so much for listening to Good Hang.
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Martin Short
Thanks for hanging with us. We will see you next time. Original music by Amy Miles.
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Martin Short
But do you think, okay, this is a good question. Do you think I should be asking these kinds of questions on this podcast?
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Martin Short
Yes, dude. So Jost, your questions are, who was your biggest enemy and who did you hook up with? Okay, those are great. I'll start with those. Maya, thanks for taking a break in the middle of your show.
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Martin Short
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Martin Short
Okay. Not only do I know that everyone got it, but so we were doing this thing on this podcast where we're asking, I'm reaching out to people who know you or like friends of yours or ours to ask them what I should ask you. So I just did a Zoom with Tina, Maya, and Jost. And all three of them have or had SNL COVID.
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Martin Short
Now, I've done scenes with all of those people, and I shared a dressing room with Meryl. I did a scene with Mike Myers and Maya.
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Martin Short
But do you go on the road and try out your stuff before the tour?
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Martin Short
And I kind of, I think it's hard to get like an honest laugh from like, to your point, the audience is too hot.
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Martin Short
I wanted to talk to you about the congratulations on winning the SAG Award.
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Martin Short
You are nominated all the time, and you don't win. I never win. And then the time that you win, you're not there.
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Martin Short
Well, I, I, I related not to front door brag, but I have been nominated often and never win. Never.
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Martin Short
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Martin Short
Only one, but I think I've been nominated. Let me pretend to not know the number. Um, No, but it is something in the 20s.
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Martin Short
But I was thinking about you because I know for me, every single time, no matter how much I've... tricked my brain into knowing who cares. It doesn't matter. Like there's this weird physiological moment that happens when you're just the split second where you're thinking, maybe I'll have to go up there. Maybe I'll have to give a speech. Does that happen to you?
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Martin Short
No, but I mean, I was bummed to see you not be up there, but I was wondering if you cared.
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Martin Short
And I agree. You either have to kind of free ball it and just be, you know. off the top of your head and just talk about how you're feeling or you have to have really good jokes. The in-between is stressful.
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Martin Short
Yeah, right. That would be, would that be the kind of thing that would keep you up at night?
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Martin Short
How did you guys, I mean, I'm sure you've told this story many times in other places, but never to me.
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Martin Short
Mike Myers here. Yeah. I like to not settle in until I find the alpha in the room.
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Martin Short
But the only murders, how did Selena get, like, how did you guys get her? Was she attached with you at the same time?
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Tina Fey
Hey everyone, this is Amy Poehler. This is the first episode of my podcast. Thank you for being here. I like to be five or six years late to any trend. It only gets better from here, or it only goes down from here. I don't know. We'll see. I just want to make it clear. I am not an expert. I'm not a therapist. I'm not here to change your life. I don't care if you get any better.
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Tina Fey
And we're lucky enough to still like each other and want to tour together. So we're going to talk and hang out. And like any good hang, you want to make sure that anyone's invited. So without further ado, here are some of my fave people, Seth Meyers,
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Tina Fey
I traveled 45 minutes each way. I mean, we talk about work a lot in when we're together. I think we work together really well. What is your relationship to work and has it changed?
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Tina Fey
Right, that's a luxury. Is getting to realize I only, if I can, want to work with people who I know will not think that... Chaos is how to be creative.
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Tina Fey
Fred Armisen, Rachel Dratch, and Zarna Garg, a great stand-up and friend who's been joining Tina and I on the road, and see if they have any questions for Tina, anything they think I should ask her. And honestly, I just want to check in and see if they think this is a good idea. This episode is presented by the Toyota Grand Highlander.
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Tina Fey
And we have seen and worked at places, and this is no big scoop, like SNL is one of them, where people come in with their system of how they like to work. And they're like people when they're nervous or insecure are often not at their best. And the way they act is wild because they're nervous or insecure.
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Tina Fey
like where I'm being directed by someone who doesn't quite know what they're doing or there's but there's no one telling us what to do there's no one in control I have that grouchiness where I feel like I'm going to I'm either going to have to take over here or I'm going to have to check out and I've been in a couple projects where like week one I'm like oh no like we don't have a captain like this ship is going down and you can see months ahead yep
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Tina Fey
How do you, yeah, I don't know, how do you, you just kind of, I guess you just watch funny videos in your trailer?
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Tina Fey
But, like, hold on. I'm going to take a lip balm break. Do it up. Because I need, my lips are dry.
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Tina Fey
I mean, I guess this is friendship is letting your friend use their. Laneige, I know about this because I have a middle schooler. I love Laneige. I mean, the question is, like, how well do you have to know someone to let them stick their finger in your lip?
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Tina Fey
Okay, you don't want to? I don't want to. Interesting. Well, I'll think about that all day.
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Tina Fey
Like a man who's worried about like, I don't shake hands. It's like, you're a man.
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Tina Fey
Yeah, you're the one with poop on your hands. You're the one. Like who said anything about poop on their hands until you did? I don't know. But we know a couple of people that are germaphobes. We have to watch out. That's the thing we have to watch out for in our 50s is the thing that was like our cute eccentricity becomes our genuine mental illness.
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Tina Fey
And I said this before, which is I feel like Amy came this close to being... A Karen.
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Tina Fey
The woman that called the guy that was birdwatching was named Amy. At the same time, Amy Coney Barrett was up and running or getting up and running. There was a lot going on with Amy. We missed it by an inch. Yeah.
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Tina Fey
yeah but is there anything you feel like you see me doing that you should like i should be careful about warn you about that's a good question i think that is what women do for each other is they say like hey you know like you know the pills that you take for your for flying you shouldn't take them when you're not flying well my chair made a fart sound that wasn't me um uh
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Tina Fey
Well, I know that I like I play this game with my friends. It's be fun game to play together, which is like, what is the version of you? That's like your biggest fear you will turn into.
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Tina Fey
I want to write it down and show it to you. By the way, I have my computer here, you know, because that's what people do with podcasts is they have their computer.
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Tina Fey
Yeah, I know. And you have one window open with porn. I wish we could do the whole podcast where I say really, like, the wrong information about everything and then I pretend to look it up and I verify it in front of you. Oh, also, I wish I was just smoking weed the whole time. What if I just start lit up a joint? Okay. Okay.
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Tina Fey
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Tina Fey
And people go, we don't need it. And you go, we do need it. We do need it. But you have incredible hair. I feel like you should have a hair campaign. And also, I always am pushing you to have a glasses line. Why do you not have a glasses line?
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Tina Fey
Yeah, I know what you mean. Like, if I had a rosé... If you... Yeah.
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Tina Fey
Well, get... You should stop because this is the thing that you have to have a million. You have to have glasses.
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Tina Fey
To give to my child. Yeah. You're saying you worry about turning into a woman as you get older that is like a strident, opinionated, here's how it works, babe.
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Tina Fey
And just— Because I just think as an exercise, it's fun to think about our personalities. Like, the thing that, like, got us here, that we're here sitting in front— Like, you and I are lucky enough to have a lot of years behind us, hopefully more years in front of us, working, getting to try all this different stuff. Yeah.
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Tina Fey
Money only can fix your 80s and 90s so much. That is the thing. We've hung around a lot of wealthy older people, and the thing that they cannot get over is that they're going to die. Yeah. Like that's the thing. They can't believe it. But who's your guy? Who do I call? Yeah. Yeah. And it's like no one. You call God. Yeah. You call him on the phone and say. Yeah. But sorry.
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Tina Fey
He says welcome to hell. And God says welcome to hell. Okay. But do you want to talk about Four Seasons for a second, by the way? Sure. Because it is coming out. And Coleman Domingo is a prince on this earth. Oof.
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Tina Fey
They only did it once? I think they only did it once. And was it bigger than a regular interview?
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Tina Fey
I know, this is a very typical Dratch entry. Dratch's headphones look like, hmm, you know when you're trying to untangle Christmas lights?
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Tina Fey
That's exactly, truly what we're trying to do here because I can't, my nervous system cannot take me. Well, two things. My nervous system cannot take it compared to the rest of the world. Yes. And also I feel like there's this weird sometimes – I mean you are the exact – you're the example of not doing this I think.
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Tina Fey
You like – everything you make is hard jokes and hard comedy and always really, really funny. But a lot of times women specifically are asked to like – Be, like, nurturing caretakers in spaces. Like, be teachers. And when we were thinking about this podcast, it was like, all the guys get to just, like, goof around and have fun. And it'd be, like, straight comedy escapism.
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Tina Fey
I don't have advice for you. I just want us to have fun and lighten up a little. And I don't know. I want us to feel like there's a way to have laughs amid all of the craziness that is life. So if you're listening to this while you're working out or folding laundry or maybe you're sitting in your car avoiding your kids –
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Tina Fey
And our stuff has to be, I don't know, about menopause. Which also is important.
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Tina Fey
But TV doesn't really, like there's no TV anymore, right? It's all just like articles about TV. Like TV itself isn't on.
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Tina Fey
It's TikTok about TV shows that aren't on. So what is the thing that you do? Where do you go to escape? What is like the video that you watch, the person that you watch?
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Tina Fey
Just the sound of untangling headphones is great for like a first podcast and stuff.
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Tina Fey
Yeah. Paul Meskel started that. Like, he's the ultimate famous rugby bill.
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Tina Fey
And then have you seen in rugby where they have to pick each other up with their underwear? No, so in rugby, there's a move where the men, to get the other one taller... You know, like to basically, it's almost like if you're hoisting somebody up. Yeah. They grab basically their shorts and underwear.
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Tina Fey
And then that's how they get it up. And there's videos. And I'm not saying that my algorithm has necessarily taken up on this. But I have seen them enough to now I do get them. Where men grab each other by the waist. It's very feminine. It's actually like. Balletic. Yes, it looks like a lift. Yeah.
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Tina Fey
Maybe I should reintroduce everybody since we're all on mic here. Zarna Garg, Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen, Rachel Dratch. Welcome to Good Hang. Thank you for being. It's great to be here.
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Tina Fey
But they grab each other and lift each other up and then their penis, their dicks are right in the line of their face. But it's totally fine. I mean, it's fine either way. Of course it is. I just mean that everyone's happy. There's no, everyone's doing exactly what they want to do.
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Tina Fey
Can we just go down the line and have everyone clap? We really need you guys to clap.
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Tina Fey
We're right now not... He's not thinking about us at all. No. He doesn't know what we call each other. In private? Jost, who... Talk about a narc. Jost, when we met Jost... Did you say a narc or an arc? An arc. Okay. Talk about a narc. What a narc. I was smoking weed and Jost called the police and I was like, fucking narc. No. Talk about having an arc.
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Tina Fey
Baby Jost, as we used to call him, we met him... We went up to the Harvard Lampoon. Oh, see? That's where we met him? That's, I think, where I met him.
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Tina Fey
Maybe we should just tell the story. So the Harvard Lampoon invites you up, and they kind of roast you.
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Tina Fey
But you and I, many times over the years, many times have had this moment where we've turned to each other and loved or hated something at the same time. And this was definitely an example where we both were like, we're not, we don't like this. and they make you go through this kind of initiation. And, I mean, I wasn't in a sorority in college. No, me neither. And I don't get it.
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Tina Fey
But they made you go through a whole thing, and then they brought us into a big, giant room, and they kind of roasted us. Yeah. And... We had – I think we had a lot of fun in how much we, like, did not engage. We all didn't like it. Didn't like it. But baby Jost was there.
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Tina Fey
I don't remember him – we didn't get a Jost roast, but – No, he was always a – But he went on to –
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Tina Fey
Yeah. Since then, you know, because you and I both have like blue collar. Yeah. I guess rage. What would you call it? Like or at worst chip on our shoulder.
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Tina Fey
I remember having two more Harvard experiences and both involved what I felt like, like like sniveling guys roasting me because one was the hasty pudding where you really do kind of, you know, you know what you're getting into and they kind of come out and roast you.
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Tina Fey
Why does anyone go? I don't know. But I really did my homework on that one, and I had really good jokes that I was proud of. Oh, that's good. And I really crushed them. And then I was asked to give one of those speeches at Harvard, and one of the kids... I mean, I've gotten this more than once, and I hope this isn't awkward for you, for me to say it in front of you, but...
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Tina Fey
Definitely, like, people like to say, like, you're the poor man's Tina Fey. Oh, God. I know. And so... But this kid said it right before I went up, so I gave him the finger. Which... Everyone was shocked about it. And I don't know who is the right... I mean, I did it, I guess. But I go, fuck you. And again, I was like, you're on a dais, Amy. Like, this is a... But then, fuck Harvard.
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Tina Fey
Fuck Harvard. I mean, those fucking assholes. But thank you for inviting me. It was a real honor.
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Tina Fey
Yeah, definitely is the kind of thing where, like, people go to award shows and they get mad that they're getting the award. It's like, if you really don't like it, don't go. Don't go. But I did go and was happy to give a speech. Okay. Lastly. Yeah. Just to kind of get started on this podcast, I had on Zoom, I had Dratch, Seth, and Fred, and Zarna. Uh-huh. And they all got into Zoom.
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Tina Fey
And I said, I'm interviewing Tina. What should I ask her? Oh, my gosh. And it was great because everyone was very excited. And, of course, I just want you to know the most hilarious thing was Dratch could not get her laptop to turn on or her headphones to work. And then while we were recording, the doorbell rang and her dog started barking because she had ordered food.
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Tina Fey
So there wasn't much content that we can use. So were there questions for that? But there were a couple questions, which is what makes you laugh. We went into that.
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Tina Fey
You can make that, get that audio. You should trademark that audio and make merch. And then the other thing that Zarna had, Zarna was like, you never get asked, Tina never gets asked girly questions, which is so funny. I mean, do you feel like you don't get asked girly questions? I don't know.
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Tina Fey
Fred wanted to know... Fred's like, oh, also, by the way, you know, Fred does a great Tina impression.
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Tina Fey
You've never seen his impression? No, I've never seen it. What do you mean? I feel like he's done it to you. He does a thing where he mumbles, but when he comes up, the thing about Fred Armisen, his impressions are never, like, they never make you feel bad. Yes. At least in my experience. Like, they just feel like they're kind. Yeah. Which is hard to do. But he comes up with, like, a script. Yeah.
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Tina Fey
It's more physicality than anything else where he comes up with a script and he goes, hey, buddy, I just want to look at it. And you're giving a thought with the script, holding the script to your body, and you can't hear what you're saying.
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Tina Fey
Well, remember Shy Ronnie, Andy Samberg's character on that? Maybe there's a little Shy Ronnie. Anyway, Fred wanted to know, last question maybe we can talk about.
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Tina Fey
Really cool guy. And coming back around, if Fred has Don Faye originals, I have in my children's bedrooms, I have paintings done by Barbara Jost, Colin Jost's grandmother. That's awesome. That's cool.
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Tina Fey
If you are listening to this, when it comes out, Tina and I are going to be on the road. Yes, look for us at a theatrical venue near you. We have a bunch of dates all over the U.S., and it's been so fun, and we're going to have our buddies out there with us. Is it TinaAmy.com? TinaAndAmy.com? You would think I would know. We would know. I think so. I think it is TinaAndAmy.com. I think so.
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Tina Fey
But go check it out. Check out our dates. Come see us. And hopefully we'll continue to work together for another 30 years. I hope so. Me too. Love you. I love you too. Thank you. So, you know, that's our first episode of Good Hang. Thank you, Tina, for coming. I did actually learn. I did learn that she learned things that I didn't know after 30 years.
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Tina Fey
That she obviously is in an emotional affair with her local newscasters. And that's a problem. And I should let her husband know. We are at a point in the show, the end of the show, where we're going to do something called the Polar Plunge, which is really simply I'm going to talk about stuff that makes me laugh and like where we're finding joy and lightness these days.
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Tina Fey
And so to add to that before we go. I just want to say that check out my favorite sketch on SNL, the one that I returned to over and over again during COVID, during tough times in my life, when I was feeling especially down.
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Tina Fey
The first Debbie Downer, the Lindsay Lohan episode when they're at Disneyland, that sketch to me is the perfect example of how a good laugh can completely change your day, your week, your life. And why it is so funny to me,
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Tina Fey
is that the great Rachel Dratch, whose comedic stylings and physical comedy we experienced at the beginning of this episode, when she couldn't get her headphones on, when Rachel is trying to stick the landing and get those jokes out, and we know that it's going to be followed by the sound effect, and the audience has this moment where we're all in it together, that moment is still thrilling to watch.
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Tina Fey
So do yourself a favor, because... Yes, Rachel cracks up. And, you know, when people crack up, it can be funny or sometimes it can be annoying or whatever. And, you know, I grew up with Carol Burnett and, like, loved watching the play that they all had and how they were all trying to kind of get each other to laugh. But what's so funny about Debbie Downer in that scene and why...
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Tina Fey
I truly watch it for serotonin boost is because Rachel knows what's coming and she tries her best to keep a straight face. And that she's like bursting like a silent film star. And anyway, that's what's making me laugh today. You've been listening to Good Hang. The executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss-Berman, and me, Amy Poehler.
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Tina Fey
The show is produced by The Ringer and Paper Kite. For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Kat Spillane, Kaya McMullen, and Alea Zanaris. For Paper Kite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss-Berman. Original music by Amy Miles.
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Tina Fey
Oh, my God. Okay. So my first guest is Tina. Tina Fey. And you all know Tina really well. So I guess my question to you is, what would you want to hear her talk about on this podcast or any podcast? She doesn't do a lot of them.
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Tina Fey
Maybe you're listening to this, I don't know, in your in-law's basement next to the Bowflex machine and it's Christmas and you're questioning the choices you've made in life. Whatever it is, this is a show here to have fun and make you laugh and I'm not here to judge. Okay, so my guest today is Tina Fey. Tina is my wife, really, in life.
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Tina Fey
Ask her the dress question, Seth. I'll ask her. And can you do it? Can you whisper it in like a phone call late at night?
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Tina Fey
I know you guys, your time is limited, so I won't keep you much longer. But just before we go, you are all doing tons of podcasts, hosting them, in them. What advice do you have for me as I launch?
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Tina Fey
Is it is it that sounds kind of leading the witness a little bit?
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Tina Fey
Everyone's got to go. It means the world that you guys did this. Thank you for letting me start. This is like the ground floor. Thanks for being there for me with this and so many other things. I can't wait to see you all in person very soon. I really love you guys. Thanks so much for doing it.
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Tina Fey
Tina, thank you for being on the first official podcast that I have ever done for Good Hang. It is my absolute pleasure. I really, really appreciate it, buddy. You have done many things for me over the years, including getting most of the jobs that I have, helping me get most of the jobs that I have and the career that I have. But this means the most.
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Tina Fey
But I am kind of nervous. Why? Well, I mean, I guess it's funny to talk to your friends that you've known for so long and then interview them, I guess. We should probably I guess we should probably picture this as like I'm going to picture that there's a room full of like I'm going to picture like there's an audience. OK, because I'm not just Jenna.
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Tina Fey
Hmm. Do you remember the character that Kenan did on SNL where he was a guy saying, just fix it? Remember he was like a New Yorker that just kept going, fix it.
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Tina Fey
She is my comedy partner in many ways, and she has... You know, I talk about it in the podcast a little bit, but she has been... Along this journey with me, we've really experienced a lot of things together at the same time in life. Sometimes I feel like Tina and I are kind of a group with two members. And we've had a lot of parallel things happen at the same time. kids and TV shows and career.
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Tina Fey
Oh, God. Have you ever? I mean, I think I know the answer to this, but I feel like I've never got really gotten a job from an audition ever. Ooh. You feel like you've gone into an audition for something and nailed it and been like, I got it.
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Tina Fey
There was a casting director in Chicago, who shall not be named, who was a commercial casting director, and I had kind of wonky teeth. So it was this kind of thing where we'd go out for this, remember the term bite and smile? Yes. So you'd pretend a bite into a hamburger, and then you'd smile. Yeah. Yeah, and it could change your life. You could pay for like three years of your low rent. Yeah.
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Tina Fey
And I knew right away that with my teeth, I was never going to get a bite and smile. Like, there's no way a brand would be associated with my teeth. And this casting director, just to get to know people, would ask them, what's your most embarrassing moment?
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Tina Fey
Yes, yeah. And I had a full, like, I got probably nervous in that moment. But I was like, no, thank you. I, like, didn't want to tell her my most embarrassing moment.
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Introducing 'Good Hang With Amy Poehler'
Hey, everyone. I'm Amy Poehler, and I'm launching a new podcast called Good Hang. And in preparation, I asked some of my friends to send me some videos and give me some advice.
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Introducing 'Good Hang With Amy Poehler'
Well, everybody has an opinion and a podcast. So join me for Good Hang. It's rough out there. We're just trying to lighten it up a little.