As she later wrote about the experience in Bossypants : “The whole experience was surprisingly serene … Maybe it was because I was safe at the side of my sweet friend Amy.”Īmy (from Yes Please ): “The anticipation for Tina playing Palin was so fun to witness, and she explains it well in her book Fifty Shades of Grey. September 2008: Tina guests on SNL to introduce her Sarah Palin impersonations. That was a good one.”Īmy: “I had an assistant fill your trailer with rats on Christmas Eve, and we laughed. I did a really funny prank where I got my assistant to paint all the cars in your neighborhood white so you would wake up and think it was snowing. I mean, we’re kind of like Cloons and Damon that way, doing a lot of, like, $250,000 pranks. Although we did have a lot of fun on Baby Mama. Boy, did we play a lot of pranks on each other.” In Marie Claire, Amy: “Being a tough, capable broad has never been easy - look at us.
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Maybe even better than the movie was the lovable press tour they did together. They’re like Scottie and Westie puppies in a basket.” And yet they’re absolutely peas in a pod. Amy’s just this gushing little oil pump of affection. Oh my God, I’ve never had so much fun working with anybody as with those two. Holland Taylor in Parade: “I worked with and Amy Poehler . It’s apparent to the co-stars how much they love each other. Neither is pinned down to that archetype - either one could play either role.”Īpril 2008: Baby Mama is released, starring Amy and Tina. Lorne Michaels: “Amy and Tina have transcended. September 2005: Tina appears with Amy in the one-hour ASSSSCAT special on Bravo.Īpril 2008: Tina and Amy appear on the cover of Vanity Fair and are prominently featured in the story about women in comedy. September 2004: Tina and Amy become the first female co-anchors of “Weekend Update.” It was Tina’s idea, as she basically told Lorne Michaels it was happening. March 2002: Tina and Amy appear in the film Martin & Orloff, along with just about every other Chicago improv/UCB alum of their generation.Īpril 2004: Amy appears in Mean Girls, a film starring and written by Tina. Weirdly, I remember thinking, ‘My friend is here! My friend is here!’ Even though things had been going great for me at the show, with Amy there, I felt less alone.” Tina (from Bossypants ): “I was so happy. Tina, talking to : “I would say to her for years, ‘Do you want to come be on SNL?’ and she’ll be like, ‘No, no, love UCB.’ And then she was like, ‘Well, maybe now.’ I can’t believe it worked out.”
September 2001: Amy joins Saturday Night Live, after years of Tina asking her to. Together they help start the improv team Inside Vladimir. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.” So this was a big thing that happened to me, and I passed that information on to you.”Īmy: “Back then, I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. Tina: “I was 22 or 23, and I had only recently learned that you can pluck your eyebrows or have a lady put hot wax on them and remove portions of them and shape them. You taught me my first real beauty lesson.” There was absolutely nothing pointing to the fact that anyone on our team would be successful in any kind of comedy career.”Īmy: “Actually, we met in class at the ImprovOlympic Theater. When we did scenes together, they weren’t particularly funny or interesting. She would whisper funny and harsh things about Del to me. We took classes together and sat in the back.
( Apparently, this Catherine the Great joke is not safe for television.)Īmy (from Yes Please ): “She was sharp, shy, and hilarious. But I bang one horse and now I’m a horse banger for all eternity? That’s it? That’s what I am?’ I think Hillary Clinton’s got to be able to relate to that.” Kennedy had extramarital affairs and no one says anything. In the play, Catherine the Great would say things like, ‘You know, John F. I used to take playwriting classes, and I wrote a one-act play - I can’t remember the name of it, but it was really about the way women are perceived as leaders. They were bold and ballsy and fearless.”Īmy Poehler: “I remember Tina Fey wrote a play about Catherine the Great fucking a horse and I thought, ‘That lady is hot stuff, I wanna know her.’”
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Her name was Tina and she was like me but with brown hair.”Ĭo-founder of ImprovOlympic Charna Halpern: “They were just instantly brilliant … They were not the typical women who get steamrolled by men. She said there was another new improviser in another one of her classes whom she thought I would really like. She told me I was just as good as the big boys. The theater’s co-founder Charna Halpern introduced them to each other.Īmy (from Yes Please ): “Charna took a liking to me, and me to her. 1993: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler meet at Chicago’s ImprovOlympic.
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