Tina Fey Confirms Four Big Names Writing for SNL50: The Anniversary Special [DETAILS]
"I can see what's coming together, and it is hilarious," she said during her Tonight Show visit alongside Amy Poehler.
Tina Fey just spilled a major update on what to expect from SNL50: The Anniversary Special: They've assembled an all-star writers' room.
"I know a little bit about what's taking shape, because I am working on it as a staff writer — which I'm pretty excited about," Tina Fey revealed during her February 12 appearance with Amy Poehler on The Tonight Show.
Tina Fey, Paula Pell, and John Mulaney among the SNL50: The Anniversary Special writers
"Me, Seth [Meyers], the great Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, John Mulaney," Fey added. "We're all coming back as 'staff writers.'"
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"I can see what's coming together, and it is hilarious because going back to being on the writing staff, I immediately regressed to [being] so grouchy," Fey joked, before adding that she's "responsible for like two minutes of content."
Writing for a historic event like the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live can be stressful, but Fey reported that she and the other writers received a morale booster from an unexpected source: comedy legend and SNL alum, Bill Murray, who stopped by the writers' room.
Bill Murray gave a pep talk to the writers of SNL50: The Anniversary Special
"I was eating garbage. I was really grouchy, but then something amazing happened," said Fey. "I was there the other night in a meeting with [longtime SNL writer and producer Steve] Higgins and everybody, and everyone was just, you know, grinding down, like, 'Okay. Well, what's it gonna be?' And then, an angel appeared in the form of Bill Murray, [he] just wandered into the meeting."
"He came in, and he was in this incredibly wonderful mood, and he just was like, 'Hey, guys, what's going on in here? Maybe open a window. You seem like you're all about to cry,'" she recalled. "And then he just gave us this pep talk, and I could've started crying because this is the pep talk that I've been dreaming of since I was a kid watching Meatballs, right?"
"He's just like, 'Show's gonna be amazing. I'm so excited. I'm seeing everybody at rehearsal. I feel like we're all brothers and sisters.'
"And I kept waiting for it to turn into a bit, and it never did. He just was like, 'This is gonna be wonderful.'
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As SNL50 talk continued, Poehler warned the audience that she was "going to be sincere for a second" while reminiscing about her time on the long-running comedy series.
"I am amazed that we're all here together. I'm amazed that we got the jobs we got. I cannot believe that I get to not only perform with you, but be friends with you," she told Fey and Fallon. "And it is a big deal to go back. If the 14-year-old version of me knew that I would be celebrating SNL... My head wants to explode."
