-Happy early birthday, pal.
Your birthday is tomorrow.
-Thanks, it's tomorrow! [ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪♪♪
What a great early birthday present
to have 12 nominations for Tony awards.
[ Cheers and applause ]
For "Mean Girls."
I mean, you got to be psyched for this.
-We were so psyched, you know?
And like I was saying last time, for these kids --
like 13 of them, including me, it's our Broadway debut.
So it's so exciting, yeah.
And they're going to get to perform in the Tonys.
And -- And it's the greatest.
We're so thrilled to just be part of this whole thing.
-And you have the greatest cast, too.
-Yeah. -It's so fun.
I was like so happy, not for you,
but also for your husband, Jeff Richmond.
-Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin are nominated for their score.
-Yep. -Our director is nominated.
It's good times and so yeah, like, it's --
-It's an exciting time to be you.
You also have the -- The cast recording is out now,
officially at like midnight tonight,
so right now, it's out! [ Cheers and applause ]
Digitally.
Digitally you can download the "Mean Girls" soundtrack
to the original Broadway cast recording.
What was it like doing this?
-This was really cool to go -- like the studios look like --
you know, like, a cool old recording studio,
or like a place you'd Airbnb up state.
Just like a lot of wood paneling and -- and it was cool.
These kids come and they sing -- they're all so trained.
They just since their song like twice and you're like, "Got it!"
'Cause you have to get it all really fast,
and these guys at Atlantic Records
who produced it are really, really good at it.
They know what they're doing.
They did "Hamilton." They did "Dear Evan Hansen."
-They know what they're talking about.
-And they wanted to do "Mean Girls."
-I'm very excited about this, to get the cast recording.
When you first wrote the movie "Mean Girls,"
do you remember you asked me
if I could write a song for the soundtrack and --
-Oh, my gosh.
-Do you remember this? -Barely.
-You said -- -Yes.
[ Laughter ]
-It did not -- no, I ended up -- -I barely remember.
-It's pretty bad. I mean, but you asked, you go,
"Dude, I need a song for the scene
where you see Janice and Damien."
-Damien.
-And you realize that they're kind of --
there's, like, punk kids around. Maybe it's like a punk song.
This was different than the "Mean Girls,"
than seeing, you know, the plastics --
so, I go, "All right, so punk rock."
And so I went to my buddy Girard's apartment in the city,
and I recorded this punk song.
-Oh, my gosh. -And I just want to play this.
This is never aired ever because you listened to it maybe twice
and said, "No, I don't need this."
[ Laughter ]
This is my version of my song.
It's called "Mean Girls."
♪♪ Yeah, yeah, mean girls, yeah, yeah ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Powerful! -Powerful!
What -- What were your lyrics? What were you singing there?
-It's awful lyrics.
I said -- [ Laughs ]
I'm putting it together today. I go,
"Oh, my gosh, thank God she never used this."
I said, "Maybe I'm a glutton for abuse,
Theodore Geisel was Dr. Seuss.
I'd hang myself if I had a noose.
You wouldn't care so what's the use."
-I don't know.
-I was like just showing angsty, like teen angst.
-Yeah, I think if we can get Nikki Minaj to rap that,
that would sound cool, but -- [ Laughter ]
-That'll never happen.
-To read it like that.
-Thank goodness there's a Broadway cast recording of
"Mean Girls" and not my version right there.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Are you going to -- Are you going to take a break at all?
-Yeah. I finally get a little break after this.
School will be over soon.
I do "SNL" this week,
and then once school's over, we're gonna go on vacation.
-Where you gonna go?
-I like to go to New Jersey, sir.
-Is that right? -Yes!
I don't want to say what town, 'cause I don't want to meet you.
[ Laughter ]
'Cause I'll be in my swim trunks and let's like leave it at that.
-Swim trunks.
-They kind of are. -Yeah.
-But, yeah, I love to go.
We've always went to Jersey. My whole family comes.
Sometimes part of my husband's family will come.
-You stay at a resort?
-No, we rent this little, like, Victorian house
in this little town, and that's perfect for me
'cause you have the beach and stuff,
but it's also creepy
'cause it's kind of a haunted-y old Victorian town,
which we're all like the Addams family.
We're all into that.
We like take a ghost tour wherever we go.
And I have had a ghost experience in this house.
Do you want to hear about it?
-Yes. -Okay.
-Does it involve two E.T.s and a pottery wheel?
[ Laughter ]
-Okay, so, one time we're in this, like,
nice old, old Victorian house,
and this is like when I was pregnant years ago,
which I was pregnant with my younger daughter.
And Alice was little, too -- she was like five at the time.
And she was sleeping in a cot at the foot of our bed,
'cause we all pile the whole family in the house.
And in the night she was, like, kicking the bed like this.
So I got up to go tell her to stop doing it.
-Yeah. -She was not doing it.
And then the next day, I went on the ghost tour --
the town ghost tour, which is a little, like, trolley ride.
And also the best part of it too is it's run by a lady
with the most delicious South Jersey accent,
so she's like, "Welcome to Jackson Street,
the most haunted street in all of South Jersey."
[ Laughter ]
I was like, "I am on board!"
-And she's, like, driving us through on the tour.
-She sells it.
-She does. She's like, "Many people have reported instances
such as feeling a cold breeze or feeling that someone was
pushing on the foot of their bed."
And I was like, "That happened to me yesterday!"
[ Laughter ] Not the night after.
I wasn't -- it wasn't suggested.
Happened the day before.
-It's not like a horoscope
where sometimes you make that thing happen.
-Yeah, where you think it happens, yes.
-Yeah, yeah, you're like,
"Oh, today's gonna be my best day of the week."
Yeah, no. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah, same house, another time.
My sister-in-law was staying downstairs,
and she said -- this was later, 'cause now both kids are kids.
And she goes, "Were they rolling a ball around last night?"
And I was like, "No, they were asleep."
She was like, "Oh, 'cause I thought --
I thought I heard them rolling a ball around."
Cut to -- take a second different ghost tour,
'cause this is all I do. [ Laughter ]
And this guy's -- -Second different ghost tour?
-Yeah, a different -- a walking ghost tour this time.
And we're on -- down the street from where we're staying,
and he's like, "Well, in this house,
traditionally there was a young, you know, a child named Anna
who was known to roll the ball around and sometimes people
would see a ball roll down the stairs."
And I was like, "Do ghosts ever travel from house to house?"
[ Laughter ]
Yes!
-"Because that just happened to me!"
Oh, my God.
-Again, happened before.
-See, this is bizarre, man. Oh, my gosh.
-This is how I relax.
-Well, see, no because --
Something spooky about it. I believe in that stuff, man.