-"Girls5eva" is on Peacock, which, by the way,
if you don't have Peacock, you should just get it.
-Yeah. It's great.
-Just get the app and then you flip it up to your TV.
-"Office," "SNL," "Murder, She Wrote," "The Tonight Show."
-Yeah. "Murder, She Wrote"? -"Murder, She Wrote."
-Wow! [ Laughter ]
Is it really? -I think so.
Old "Columbos." Come on.
"Girls5eva."
-We just found out that we're on Peacock.
-Yeah. -6:00 in the morning
the next day, "Tonight Show" is on.
It's a good morning show. -Yeah.
-Anyways, anyways. Check out "Girls5eva."
We were freaking out. Quest was like,
"Dude, there's more jokes in this than '30 Rock.'"
-Yeah, maybe. Meredith Scardino is the creator
of "Girls5eva," and she worked on "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
And she is a joke machine.
She's like -- I have to be like, "Take two away. It's too many."
-It's too many jokes. -It's too much.
It's too many jokes, Amadeus.
-You're making me laugh too much. Stop it.
But also the music is unbelievable.
Quest was like, "There's so many Easter eggs in that."
-Yeah, wait, I got to watch it like three times each just to --
-Yeah, that's -- Yeah.
-Jeff Richmond.
-Jeff Richmond does all the music for our shows.
Sara Bareilles did one song.
I saw something. There's 31 songs between
little tiny songs and stuff in the first eight episodes.
It's about a girl group from the '90s who try to make a comeback,
and so there's just, like, a lot of deep-cut, short songs.
There's a song that they sing with Vanessa Williams called --
♪ TBF, tiny butts forever ♪
About how people are always gonna like tiny butts.
[ Laughter ] There's a lot of funny songs.
-It's a brilliant idea too because you're like, "Oh, yeah.
Someone sampled a Girls5eva song.
Let's get the band back." -Yeah.
And then they come on this program.
Thank you for being in the pilot.
-I'm in the pilot! I'm so psyched.
They come on "The Tonight Show."
-They come on "The Tonight Show."
-Hit it big. -Mm-hmm.
-Gosh, it's just fantastic.
And then if it couldn't be any better, you come on the show,
which, dude, I love that.
I was like, "Oh, you're just going to play a character."
You come on.
Can we get this? -Oh, no.
-As Dolly Parton. You played Dolly Parton.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-No, don't clap for that.
-Did you know you had a Dolly Parton impression?
-Here's what happened. Remember a long time ago
when I looked a lot like Sarah Palin
and everyone was like, "You should play Sarah Palin"?
-Yeah. -This is the opposite of that.
[ Laughter ] -No one said --
-No one asked for this.
But what happened was, it was the middle of the pandemic
when we shot this whole show, and we just kept being like,
"Let's just -- We're going to try to get Dolly Parton to maybe
really do this crazy episode where Dawn is, like,
hallucinating that she meets Dolly Parton."
And then we just kept trying to, like, contact Dolly Parton.
And then -- -COVID.
-The clock was running out, it was COVID, and then it was like
this shoots day after tomorrow, and it was literally like,
"Who's around? Who's already COVID-tested and in the system?"
And it was me. [ Laughter ]
And that's how I've gotten most acting jobs I ever had,
was like, "Who's around?" -"Who's around?"
-That's how I got "Update" with you. Like, "Oh, she's around."
[ Laughter ] -"She could read some jokes."
-And so I tried to come up with a Dolly Parton.
And if you get Peacock, you can see if I did it.
-Is there any secrets to getting a Dolly --
-I tried to do a thing. Okay, so, I kept watching,
like, different things and I kept watching
that Christmas movie and stuff that she did.
And I kept watching -- And then the only thing I kept
trying to do is -- and when I demonstrate this,
you're gonna hear that it doesn't sound right --
but I just kept -- on set, I kept going -- I kept going...
[ Southern accent ] ♪ Yawn and stretch ♪
♪ And try to come to life ♪
[ Normal voice ] Like, that was my closest I could get.
-Yawn and stretch. ♪ -And try to come to life ♪
[ Applause ] Not great.
It's, like, not great. -No.
-It's, like, Halloween quality.
But I kept doing it,
and then I had to do it, like, before every line.
I was like, "I can't -- I got to do --"
And then Sara Bareilles was just laughing
because, like I said, I've been doing it so much.
-I want to show everyone a scene from "Girls5eva" on Peacock.
Take a look at this.
♪ -From Tokyo to the Amazon ♪
♪ Paris, France, to your front lawn ♪
♪ Everybody's doing, everybody's doing ♪
♪ The Splingee ♪
-The Splingee? Dope! But how?
♪ -Whoa, whoa ♪
♪ -First you, first you ♪
♪ Grab your ear like, "What's that noise?" ♪
♪ Shimmy, shimmy ♪
♪ Shake it down to the ground ♪
♪ Two-handed salute ♪
♪ Then back it up, back it up, back it up ♪
-Oh! -Sorry, sorry.
-Obviously, this not the venue to debut the Splingee.
It's meant to be performed on top of a building
with adequate netting.
-That's where you do the Splingee.
Tina Fey, everybody.
Watch Season 1 of "Girls5eva" streaming now on Peacock.