Oprah's 2020 Vision Tour Visionaries: Tina Fey Interview

should you enter? Yes, and they asked me in class. I said: when do you learn? oh, when I have a good idea or when I think of something fun and they always say no, the answer is that you come into the picture when you are needed that's when you come in oh so I won't come in because they need me but if you felt you were needed you got the call oh sure yes you are doing it yes what excites you the most I mean being here with you thank you the most I don't know we I'm I'm dead inside Oprah, I'm dead, I like my house, I like being inside my house, so I know that you also did the workbook well, yes, yes, and what did you get and did you learn something about yourself?

Yeah, well this is actually related to what I just said, yeah. One of the emotions and learning was one of those things that I circled and wanted to work on because I feel like I lack curiosity, like I should be more curious about things outside of my realm. Are you one of those people who literally learns from the mistakes of your life. I hope so, so that doesn't show up wearing a different pair of pants or skirt. Oh yeah. I think so. I think I think I learn from life's mistakes. Yes, but even in terms of as if not.

I don't know how to accept new things, do new things, try new things. I think I'm a person who needs to be dragged because I was obsessed with comedy, it's what I always wanted to do. I dove into it now I feel like I know. and then I need to find what's next that makes you laugh oh my god who makes me laugh Maya Rudolph Amy Poehler Kenan Thompson David Sedaris a lot of people think this thing with you and Amy Poehler seems so natural, do they have to do it? working on it is so natural we've known each other since 1992-93 and we've been working together and I think I love our friendship, it's a work-based friendship like ours, that's the only time, almost the only time.

We see each other if we work on something together, which is probably why we think okay, we'll make the world again. We were together for an hour in the first improv team. We

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ed the second city together. We did weekend updates together and That was my love language: working with people, I work with my husband, you know, going to do something like the Globes and sitting there with a package of jokes and going over it with her is so natural and easy because it's 2530 years in practice, yeah, and that vibe just happens so naturally, yeah, when you did your workbook, yeah, what was your 20/20

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Well, I think I was a little confused about whether it was supposed to be a complete sentence or I like how ethereal it should be or whether it should be like eight carats more, but I said, I think it's about listening and being present and I like listening to try to listen to what I'm supposed to do next and when you know. One of the practices that is actually part of my daily spiritual practice is gratitude and when you look back on your life, your career, what you said before, all the things you wanted to do, you're 49 years old, you think you've done it. .

I've done those, what are the things that really make your heart swell with gratitude? I mean everything, the people I have met, the people who have put in the work to be able to do it, but I didn't run out of time to have children. You know, being able to do what I love and be financially successful at it. I feel grateful for knowing this for sure. I would do it anyway, even if I was still doing it in Chicago for free and had a day job. I know I'd say you know what you're supposed to do and you'd do it for nothing you'd do it for nothing I'd do it for nothing and I've done it in the beginning for a long time yeah, yeah, for nothing, yeah, and if you were still Well, we glad you don't keep doing it for nothing, you find yourself, you find yourself, yeah, so what do you have a spiritual practice? um.

I was raised Greek Orthodox, but would now refer to myself as an Ann Lamont Christian. I just read. Some Anne Lamott try to be a good person, try to impart ethics to my children, that's all and that's it, but what do you do if you know we're talking about well-being? Yeah, okay, what do you do to stay in that wellness space? you are working to be more complete yes and no perfect because you taught us that we do not have to do that you cannot be that I am what do I do to urinate well how well I move I try I try to sleep now that I spent so many years without sleeping and that the lack of dream is not a joke I know the reason why they use it as Roger.

I'm surprised they're still awake. I'm awake because when I asked a question today. that's the number one question that everyone might have read there and they're not getting enough rest or sleep, yeah, and that's a really hard one to prioritize for yourself, but you should try. I love going to sleep. I'm my favorite part of Every day I drink some natural calming magnesium and go to sleep. I find that I really need to be outside every day, I kind of need to make time to walk and be in nature or as close to nature as possible in the city. look towards the city, I'm going to the park.

I'm trying to read more. I'm trying to read more for a couple reasons because I'm looking to reboot, but I also think I know my friends and I. We are all very stressed. because of the news every day and the daily events and like the fire in Australia so many things like do you take it in because I was talking to a friend the other night he said to me: I have to go watch the evening news? I never watch the evening news, I know. I try not to do it, yeah, before I go to bed, are you kidding me?

You know, I took. I watched the morning for a bit and then looked at Gayle. I loved her. I am MBC forever. It's complicated, it's complicated, so it's my NBC watch in the morning. I'm sorry, but the way it was just a chess move to keep Gail from being my friend, that was relational aggression. I see everything on girls' Instagram. I lurk on Instagram and see girls, but I also like to read things because I feel like it helps me. Remember that the world has been around for a long time and will continue to exist, so you like to read things that were written a while ago and have a connection to things that are more permanent than the news cycle, but you don't take all of those things. every day no, I try, no, you might think my friends do it, my friends need to talk down like every night, yeah, it's like you're watching this and no, not a little, no, stay away, yeah, no You don't even assimilate it.

I can't even tell you what it meant to me that you said yes, that you would come here and talk to all of our. I would say yes to anything in the world you would ever ask me to do and by the way, yes Ask me what my spiritual beliefs are. The closest I am is my love for you since I was a kid coming home from high school. I would come home every day and make a Jiffy Pop and look at you every day and eat that whole Jiffy Pop. and I feel like there's so many things, but I would say that all the time I got watching your show, I always say always be the only person who can sign your checks, yeah, I always say never go with someone to a second location, which De In fact, I used to say that there are so many things like that in the room on 30 Rock that it became a famous joke on 30 Rock with Carrie Fisher's character, Jack Barnett wrote how never go with a hippie to a second place and it's because I don't Shut me up with the things I learned on The Oprah Show.

I once went to a book club when I lived in Chicago with me and Rachel Dratch, like many of us, had probably read. The Book of Ruth was the book, oh wow. and we went to that program like it was a midterm exam, I don't know what we're going to be like, we thought you were going to give us a test, like they were giving it to us, so you are my church, you were my church in my light, thank you . for coming to the Twin Cities you for inviting me thank you for being here and leave your soul with us a little bit thank you thank you dear boy Oh