-We're back with Tina Fey.
Congratulations on the "Kimmy Schmidt" interactive special.
What gave you the idea or the impetus
to do a choose-your-own adventure "Kimmy Schmidt"?
-Yes, well, first of all, legally I think we're not
allowed to refer to it as "choose your own adventure."
-Gotcha. Well, I think legally I can call it whatever I want.
-You can -- You can go nuts. [ Laughs ]
But what happened was, we were finishing shooting the series,
the body of the series,
and right as we were finishing up
that last part of that last season,
Netflix came to us and said, "We have this technology that --
We're about to do this show
called 'Bandersnatch' on 'Black Mirror,'" which --
I don't know if you saw "Bandersnatch."
-I did. -It was a really cool
"Black Mirror" special that was a very dark, moody,
super-cool version of this technology
where you're watching it and then you, the viewer,
with your remote, make choices of what the character does.
And they said -- They showed it to us early,
which was really cool, and then they said,
"Do you think you could do this with 'Kimmy Schmidt'?"
And we were like, "120 percent,"
because, one, it just was such exciting technology,
and, two, our show is kind of known for
kind of having too many jokes...
-Yes. -...going on.
And so it was a way to write as many jokes as you want
but not choke people with them all at once.
So if you -- This is an interactive special.
We've called it a movie a lot. I don't know.
It's called an interactive special.
And basically Kimmy is about to get married to a royal --
a British royal, distant British royal named Frederick.
Prince Frederick, who is played by Daniel Radcliffe,
who's awesome.
And then in time she finds out that the reverend --
She makes a discovery that makes her concerned
that there's another bunker somewhere
that hasn't been discovered, so she has to make some choices
as to how far she'll go to try to find this other bunker,
and you get to make these choices with her.
Now, you also get to make choices --
You'll appreciate this as a writer,
'cause Netflix was like, "You know, so, 'Bandersnatch'
was one story, so you'll probably want
to keep it to one story,
because it's pretty impossible to track."
We were like, "Cool, cool, cool. So three stories."
-[ Laughs ] -We were just so used to
Being able to cut away to the other story...
-Sure. -...like, momentum-wise.
Please hold. There's a colonial lady coming in.
Yes. Can I help you?
-[ Laughs ]
I'm sorry. You're not making sound. What?
I'm -- Yes. Hello. -Hello.
-We're taping a television program.
Do you need something?
-I did the interactive -- I clicked for her entry.
-[ Giggling ]
-The colonial lady just called us losers!
-Wait a second! We're not losers!
-This means "loyalists" in colonial times,
so that's on you!
Hold on. Um...
So -- Oh, wait. So did you say you played it?
-There's a joke -- This really speaks back
to how you layer jokes on jokes on jokes.
Even the theme song has a joke in it.
-Yes. Should we -- Hmm.
I don't know if we should give it away.
-You don't have to give it away, but I guess the --
-But I will say, though, there's the thing with the theme song,
that if you -- like any Netflix show, when it starts,
you have the option to skip intro.
And, you know, my husband, Jeff Richmond,
one of our EPs on the show, also wrote that theme song,
which I think is one of
the greatest TV theme songs of all time.
-It is one of the greatest TV theme songs of all time.
I completely echo that sentiment.
And yet, I imagine that if you watch a bunch in a row...
like, you might at some point maybe go like,
"Oh, I'll skip the song." -Right.
Or if you're my older daughter, and your dad wrote that song
and you've heard it a lot of times just being re-recorded
around the house, you might --
Because I was showing it to my older daughter early,
an early copy, and the theme song came up,
and "skip intro" came up, and she literally, like,
looked around to make sure that her dad was not around
and then hit "skip intro,"
and I knew that there was, like, a surprise coming.
There's -- Something slightly punitive happens
when you hit "skip intro."
So...watch that unfold.
-You are actually going to head over to 30 Rock today.
-Yes, I think by the time me and you are talking on TV,
I will have already been there.
We're doing a -- I guess it's a telethon.
-Yeah. -It's the "Rise Up New York!"
telethon tonight at 7:00 p.m.
And I am going down
to kind of host the live portion of it from NBC.
I feel really excited and privileged
to get -- to go into NBC. You know, I think --
I'm sure you feel the same way, that we just long to be --
The only way we remotely know how to help
is to go on TV and try to talk.
So I'm going to go down there today and hopefully read
some impressive fundraising totals.
-That's great. Thank you so much for doing that.
And we will put up the information,
because that will have happened before our show,
but we'll put it up now if people want to donate to that.
And it is always such a delight to talk to you, Tina.
Thank you so much for being here.
Do not miss "Kimmy Schmidt Interactive."
It's fantastic. It's on Netflix.
We'll be right back with more "Late Night."