Tina Fey Gave Out Cheese Fries in Times Square

-It was wonderful to see you
in "Great News." -Thank you.
-You´re going to be the first three episodes.
-Yes, I´m in the first three episodes.
It´s a show that Robert Carlock and I produce.
It´s a really funny show. I hope you check it out.
And -- and we´re super lucky, ´cause they give us a time slot
behind "Will & Grace." -Yes, which --
-Is great. -Is a big --
-Yeah. -Like, when you have a TV show,
that´s where you want to be. -That´s what´s called a lead-in.
-Yes. -And so I think the network,
you know, asked if I would do a few episodes.
And I think their hope is just that people will see me
with their glasses off and think it´s Megan Mullally
and just leave it on. -Oh, right.
-Yeah. -That´s a really good way
of going about it. -So, yeah, start every episode
with like... [ Imitates Megan Mullally ]
"Honey, leave it on!" [ Laughter ]
Use that. -Very nice in that clip.
Your -- our old friend, Horatio Sanz, is in it.
-Yes! -And then comedy legend
Andrea Martin... -Yeah.
-...who was on this show, and is just a dynamo.
-Yeah, Andrea Martin is someone that I´ve always wanted to
just be friends with, let alone, you know, get to work with.
And on this show -- yeah, if you haven´t seen it,
it´s got Andrea Martin, it´s got Horatio Sanz,
it´s got John Michael Higgins, who´s one of the...
-Fantastic. -...funniest guys in the world.
Briga Heelan, Nicole Richie. They´re all adorable
and hilarious. And yeah, and Andrea,
of all of us, has the most energy.
-Yes. -Right?
Andrea´s, you know, the oldest member of the cast at 31.
And, uh... [ Laughter ]
But she comes in, she´s like nothing but energy.
I was, like, I hadn´t done a show in a while, and so,
you know, they pick you up at like 5:00 in the morning.
You´re like, "oh, okay, whatever."
Andrea rides her bike to the lot...in the dark.
She´s like "oh, I got here, I just got up,
and I rode my bike." And I was like, "it´s a little --
Are you scared?" She´s like, "no, the only scary part is when
I go past the entrance of the freeway in the dark."
I was like, "you might be a Muppet."
[ Laughter ] Like you -- you travel from
place to place like Fozzie Bear. [ Laughter ]
Like you went -- But God bless her.
-She´s an inspiration. -She is an inspiration.
-This, I have to say, I´m not alone in being excited for this.
"Mean Girls," the musical. -Yes, sir.
-And you just went -- [ Cheers and applause ]
And you started -- ticket sales. -Yes.
"Mean Girls," the musical, is finally after years of me
just yammering about it, we´re so close to people
actually seeing it with their eyeballs.
October 3rd was yesterday, which some people kindly refer to as
"Mean Girls" Day... -Yes.
-...because of a joke in the movie, and so,
it was the day that tickets for the New York stuff went on sale.
You can buy them online...
and so we went and we got a big food truck
and we gave out cheese fries. -And there you are.
You showed up. -And I -- yes.
-So you actually showed up. -I showed up.
We had a big line of people. It was really exciting.
Fans came out to -- to get free cheese fries.
I mean, they were either fans of the show or cheese fries.
-Or cheese fries. Yeah. -It´s hard to know.
And the Greek part of me was super comfortable
in the food truck. -Oh, great.
-I was like, okay. We need more fries!
Leave them longer. They´re not crispy!
-And this just must be, because, like you mentioned,
you´ve been working on this for a long time.
-Yeah, it takes -- -You have a cast --
a very talented group of young people.
-Oh, we have such an incredibly talented cast of young people.
I can´t wait for people to see them.
You can -- another way to buy tickets is, um, you can buy
tickets to see -- the out-of-town run of it,
in Washington, D.C., at the National Theatre.
Those tickets are on sale at like, thenational.org?
You know what? Later on we´ll put a thing here --
-Yeah, we´ll put a thing there. -And it will be correct.
-Yeah, and if you´re wrong about it...
-Yeah. -The lower third will be
passive-aggressive about how you didn´t know what it was.
-[ Laughs ] Okay, good.
-Also, it seems like the group of people that are working
on this show are pretty impressive people
´cause they actually started a GoFundMe page as well.
-Oh, yeah, the thing -- well, we -- so we were out
yesterday being clowns, giving away cheese fries.
And then the cast -- the cast of the movie, actually.
-Oh, wow. -On October 3rd, ´cause they´re
probably tired of people tweeting at -- at them
about October 3rd, they, like Jonathan Bennett
and Lacey Chabert and Daniel Franzese from the movie,
they started yesterday, for October 3rd,
they started a GoFundMe page in support of people
who were victims of violence in Las Vegas.
So we, the cast of the Broadway show are supporting that, too.
And I think it´s -- that one I think is, like...
or something like that. -We´re gonna throw that up
there, too. We´re gonna get them all up.
-I think that one´s right. -There we go.
-So, yeah. Changing -- changing lives,
one cold thing of cheese fries at a time.
[ Laughter ]
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