-You look great. Thank you for coming back.
-Thanks for having me. Look how close we are.
-I know, dude, you were here for every stage of the --
You were there for every stage of the --
-Yes. From Zoom back to the room.
-Wow. Happy belated birthday, by the way.
-Thank you so much.
My birthday was Tuesday. I turned 51.
[ Cheers and applause ]
It's one of the cutest ages.
People say it's like 18 months, 6, and then 51.
People are like, "Oh, look at her little outfit!"
[ Laughter ]
"I think she's trying to dance."
51. -Oh, my God.
Did you do anything? Did you do anything fun?
-You know, we just had a few people come to our office
for cake, and it felt like a fight club.
It felt like -- It was, like, so illicit.
We were like, "There's seven of us here. We're eating cake."
It felt like that time Tracy Morgan had, like,
an illegal after-hours casino at the after party.
It was just like, "I can't believe we're doing this."
-"I can't believe we're --" That's right.
Well, it's wild.
I mean, we have 58 people,
and it sounds like Madison Square Garden.
[ Cheers and applause ] -So exciting.
-It's the little things.
Well, happy, happy birthday.
I have so many questions to ask you.
Last time we were here, you talked to me, you got a car.
-Yes. -How's the new car?
-New car is great. She's great.
I had one accident since I saw you.
-You're joking me. -Everybody is fine.
Everything is totally fine.
'Cause last time I was here I was talking about
how I had my first car, I had never really driven before.
-What is it again?
-It's a Subaru. Her name is Karen.
[ Laughter and applause ]
She's a blazing white Subaru Forester.
And I was getting a little confident in my driving,
and I was -- I was -- I was -- I got confused by my GPS
'cause she's a little bitch.
[ Laughter ]
And I thought -- At the last minute I thought
I had to cross four lanes on the Bruckner, and I crossed three.
[ Laughter ] -Alright.
-And then Subaru has this great technology where it does --
it is really good -- it beeps if someone is in your blind spot.
The car beeps.
And it does work because it really beeped a lot
before I hit that other car. [ Laughter ]
It was like, beep, beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep!
-It's like, "You're in an accident right now."
It's like, "Yeah, no duh!" -Yeah.
Just a little scrape.
It was fine. -Oh, my gosh.
-The guy was super nice.
It was a young man named Igor and his entire family.
And I got out with my mask on. I was like, "I'm so sorry."
It's funny. If you're a person who's been on TV
during the pandemic, 'cause of masks, some people are like...
"I think -- I think --" -Yeah.
-Yeah. -For me, it's always like,
"Is that Ryan Reynolds or Tom Cruise?"
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
For me, they're like, "Is Tootsie real?"
[ Laughter ]
"Or is that just a movie?"
-Oh, my gosh.
-But he was super nice, and I thank God there was no trouble.
And, you know, I'm just -- Karen and I are just doing our best.
-You and Karen, man. I love it.
I love that's your car of choice.
I can't even tell everyone the story --
'cause we talked about it last time.
It makes me laugh so much because you were in the city
for all of the quarantine, the pandemic.
You stayed at home in New York City and then you go --
you have two beautiful girls and a husband, and you go,
"Let's just get out of the city."
-Right, let's rent a house. Let's get out.
-Let's get out and get some fresh air.
Tina goes to the country.
First day -- First day, you come out -- I just love it, dude --
I could see you doing this.
You come out. You're holding your coffee.
Brisk, beautiful, like, the sun is rising.
And then the birds are chirping
and it's going... [ Imitates bird calls ]
And you go, "Ah."
And then you're like, "Help, help."
She's like, "Is that a bird or is someone yelling for help?"
And this is a true story. -Yes.
-And Al Pacino lived close to where you rented.
-His house is supposedly nearby, yeah.
-So you go, "Is this Al Pacino screaming for help?"
-"Did Al Pacino fall down?" -"Did he fall down?
He's an American treasure. You can't get rid of Al Pacino."
So then you have to go in and wake your daughters up
and everybody and go --
-"Is this a bird or help?
We've been in the city a long time.
What do birds sound like
and what do human beings panicking sound like
and is it the same?"
-And turns out it was a human man who actually was on a kayak,
fell, and was screaming for help.
-Yeah. And then he got some help. We got him some help.
-You saved the man's life.
But this is a story that no one even believes, but I love it.
It's my favorite story because it only could happen
to Tina Fey.
First day out there, and she saved a man's --
-I just like that -- [ Cheers and applause ]
-I love it. It's my favorite story. It's so real.
-It was sort of like a backdoor brag
for me to tell it the first time.
I was like, "Yeah, I saved this guy."
And then I came on here. I'm like,
"Hey, remember that time I saved that guy?"
[ Laughter ]
-Every time we tell that story.
How are the girls, by the way?
-They're excellent. They're doing great.
-Oh, good. They're teenagers now?
-Yeah. Our older daughter is 15.
It's tricky to do your show anymore because all I want to
talk about is my daughters, and that is, like, the one thing
that I am absolutely forbidden
from talking about, is your teenager.
They're like, "Absolutely not."
-"Do not bring me up." -"Do not talk about me."
"Do not show your friends a picture of me."
Like, nothing.
-That's what teenagers feel like?
-Yeah, I think so.
So you have, like, so much more time for your two.
Having a teenage daughter is like having an office crush
because you're just, like, always -- you're thinking
about them a lot more than they're thinking about you.
[ Laughter ] And you just go up to their door
and you're like, "A bunch of us are going to eat dinner.
You're probably busy." [ Laughter ]
"You probably don't want to do that."
Like, "Some of us thought it would be cool
to, like, put a movie -- Never mind. Never mind."
And they just look at you like --
They're looking at their phone, like...
[ Laughter ]
-"Can you just move on?" -Yeah.
-I want to talk about --
Well, gosh, you're writing "Mr. Mayor."
Second season, by the way.
-Yeah, second season of "Mr. Mayor."
We're writing it now. -That's amazing.
-It's great. Ted Danson, our buddy Bobby Moynihan,
Holly Hunter, Vella Lovell.
-Isn't it an amazing cast? -It's a great cast.
And it's so weird.
I think it comes on at Christmas.
So look for it at Christmas.
-Wow, alright. You're really gonna write.
-Yeah. We're gonna write it so hard
that it's not gonna be ready till Christmas.
But, yeah, that's what I'm doing now.
-I love that. That and also "Girls5eva,"
which we were lucky to have the cast on.
-Oh, thank you. That was so awesome.
-We were so lucky. -Thank you for having them sing.
-The funniest -- I mean, anyways, well, I want to
talk about this 'cause it's Questlove's favorite new show.
But more with Tina Fey when we come right back.
Stick around, everybody.