Tina Fey grew to become one of many grandmasters of millennial comedy when her teen satire Imply Ladies hit theaters in 2004. A decade later, as the author of the Imply Ladies (2024) screenplay, Fey stays greater than slightly plugged into the vernacular of younger folks—a ability she flaunted to nice impact on Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang’s Las Culturistas podcast this week.
Sure mega-fans of the Broadway musical upon which the 2024 film relies took issue with minor modifications that have been made to among the songs’ lyrics for the display adaptation—for instance, within the track “Horny,” the Broadway lyric, “That is fashionable feminism talkin’/I anticipate to run the world in sneakers I can not stroll in,” was modified to, “Watch me as I run the world in sneakers I can not stroll in”—and Fey is having not one of the nitpicking.
Throughout a spherical of “I Don’t Assume So, Honey,” a Las Culturistas phase through which visitors are inspired to fireside off their sizzling takes, Fey let fly.
“I don’t suppose so, honey: little Broadway cunts on TikTok complaining about two strains of ‘Revenge Get together’ after I convey you fucking Reneé Rapp, I convey you Auli’i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey,” Fey stated, referring to the movie’s younger forged members, as Yang and Rogers howled with laughter. “Because of this we are able to’t have good issues.”
However Fey wasn’t executed, informing SNL star Yang that he’s now too well-known to talk freely whereas managing to sneak in her personal dig at director Emerald Fennell and her divisive newest, Saltburn.
“I don’t suppose so honey: Bowen Yang giving his actual opinions about films on this podcast,” she stated, prompting Yang to shriek. “I remorse to tell you that you’re too well-known now, sir. What’s gonna occur? You will have an issue with Saltburn? Shhh! Quiet luxurious. Preserve it to your self, as a result of what you might be gonna do when Emerald Fennell calls you about her subsequent undertaking the place you play Carey Mulligan’s co-worker within the bridal part of Harrods, after which act three takes a sexually violent flip and it’s a must to faux to be shocked by that flip?”
“Be taught from Ayo, podcasts are ceaselessly,” Fey stated, referencing Emmy-winner Ayo Edeberi, who lately discovered herself in the midst of a minor controversy when years-old cracks she’d made about Jennifer Lopez’s singing voice resurfaced, simply in time for the 2 to look collectively on SNL.
“Authenticity,” Fey concluded, “is harmful and costly.”
As Edebiri herself commented on an Instagram put up of that clip, “LEARN FROM ME.”
