-We are joined right now by a brilliant comedian and writer.
She's created hit movies and TV series,
a "New York Times" best-seller,
and her smash-hit Broadway musical, "Mean Girls,"
was nominated for 12 Tony Awards.
This May, you can see her in an all-star cast,
in Amy Poehler's directorial debut, "Wine Country."
-You should go to college. -Look for that on Netflix.
Say hello to Tina Fey! [ Cheers and applause ]
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-Hey!
You're a terrible person.
-What?
-You heard me.
-Standing ovation. That's great.
Do you think they clapped more for her than me, though?
Seriously.
You know what? Don't answer that.
I'm out of here.
Gonna shop my wares somewhere else.
By the way, that trash can? Full of cockroaches.
Like my dressing room -- totally infested.
This building is infested.
It's infested with...Fallonitis.
I'm taking the stairs. I'm taking the stairs!
'Cause the elevator didn't come.
Okay, where are the stairs?
-But including this guy here.
-Yeah, okay, so, this is -- Okay, so, this --
I don't know if you guys have ever seen the show,
but at the end of the show -- spoiler alert --
Whatever. We gave you plenty of time.
Kimmy writes a book and writes --
She kind of becomes, like, the next J.K. Rowling.
She takes, like, her crazy, dark childhood with her imagination
and she becomes a great author.
And in the TV show, she writes a book called
"The Legends of Greemulax," which is, like,
a middle-grade reader that teaches kids
how to control the little monster inside them.
-Yeah. -Specifically boys.
Teaches boys how to control the little monster.
And, so, we were like, "Oh, we should we just --
Someone should really write the book,"
because that's -- Because we're stupid.
-That's great. I think it's genius.
-It's so nice. It's a really good book.
It's a woman -- Well, Kimmy Schmidt wrote it.
-Of course. [ Cheers and applause ]
Right, guys?
-Kimmy Schmidt wrote it
with the help of a great woman named Sarah Mlynowski,
and it is a real book.
And it goes -- All our profits go to a charity
called Prevent Child Abuse America.
So it's, like, a good thing. And if you -- Yeah.
-Absolutely, sure. [ Cheers and applause ]
Well, you've got to be -- I don't know
if you saw the Ariana Grande video for "Thank U, Next."
-I did, because I got a text from my 13-year-old being like,
"The video's dropping in three minutes.
Ariana's dropping a video.
It's going to have 'Mean Girls' in it."
And I was like, "You're at school.
Like, why are you on your phone?"
-How did you get an alert? Yeah. -Right.
And I was like, "Yeah, how does everybody know it?"
I have so much trouble getting people knowing like,
"I've got a TV show on Netflix anytime you want it."
-Yeah, yeah.
-And I can't get any -- But then, like,
Ariana's like, "Tomorrow at 3:00, pick up your phone."
Everyone is like, "Okay."
-But look -- there she is doing "Mean Girls."
-Yeah. -Regina.
-She's being Regina George. [ Cheers and applause ]
And Jonathan Bennett, from the original movie, looks the same.
-He does. Right? That's bizarre, right?
-Dude looks the same. Yeah.
And the video's pretty cool, right?
-Yeah. It's fantastic, dude. -Yeah.
-I want to talk about "Wine Country."
-Yep.
-'Cause this is, I know, Amy Poehler's directorial debut,
and she's -- How is she as a director?
-Her feature debut. She's a nightmare.
No. She's awesome. You know, so, this movie came...
-I just went that way, and I walked into Rachel Maddow.
So what? Huh?
I'm going to try this way. You know, wish me luck.
Like "The Poseidon Adventure" or something.
-Every time one of us turns 50,
we're going to take a little trip.
So, the first trip they took was to wine country,
and I didn't get to go on that trip 'cause I was working.
But, so, they took a trip to wine country
and had a crazy time.
And then they were like, "We should make a movie about
our trip to wine country"
and thereby be paid to return to wine country.
-Ah! Genius.
-Genius. -Genius.
-So, this is a movie kind of inspired by
the insanity of that trip.
-Of real life. -Yeah.
And it's going to be on Netflix.
And it's basically like if you ever wanted to hang out with
Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Dratch,
and everybody, and then I show up --
-This is it. -It's a murderer's row.
-Yeah. -It's ridiculous.
-We have a clip.
Here's Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, and Rachel Dratch
in Amy Poehler's directorial debut, "Wine Country."
It's on Netflix in May. Check this out.
-Hey, do you mind telling me what the hell your problem is?
-You know what you did. -I don't.
-Well, maybe if you weren't popping so many pills,
you would have a better sense of yourself.
-Popping pills?
What are you talking -- You know what?
Fine. Let's just not talk for the rest of the clip.
-Fine by me. -Yeah, fine by me, too.
-I have a dog with one eye. Here she comes.
She's coming close. She's right here.
She's almost here. She's here now.
-Just so you know, I will smile and finish this interview
because I'm a professional, but in the future,
I will be shopping my wares elsewhere.
-Your wares? -You heard me, jackass.
-What are you up to? Nothing? -Champagne time!
All right, everybody...
-Our thanks to Tina Fey.
Look for "Wine Country" on Netflix in May.
Animal expert Robert Irwin joins us after the break.
Stick around.
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-How great was she?
Tina Fey, everybody! Tina Fey, everybody!
-Thank you. -Thank you, pal.
You got to re-dye your mustache.
-Yeah. Trump got elected because of you.
-Where are the stairs
to get downstairs to Rockefeller Center?
That way. Now it's this way. Okay, make up your mind.
Which way?
What?
Oh, my God. I'm gonna go this way again.