Tina Fey Gossip

Amazon’s new anthology Modern Love takes some of the most memorable essays from the New York Times column of the same name and adapts them into charming little vignettes about love in the big city. Or, well, most of them are charming. One is a straight up nightmare. We’ll get there. For most of its eight episodes, Modern Love runs harmless-to-good. Full Story

A few weeks ago, we got a preview of Amy Poehler’s Netflix film, Wine Country, when she and Maya Rudolph appeared in Vanity Fair to talk work and friendship. Full Story

You may think that term has been overused and doesn’t mean much anymore, but how often do you get to use it on the O.G.s anyway?  As Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, and Tina Fey pointed out, they were not the Oscars hosts, despite being the first people to actually speak live on air, not counting Queen/Adam Lambert and the Smoke Machines. Full Story

If you’re surprised that the Kardashians are the lead story on this week’s episode of Show Your Work, you’re not alone. Duana was expecting a fight when she pitched it to me last week after The Hollywood Reporter featured them in their latest issue, an oral history of how the Kardashian decade came to be. Full Story

As promised, we open this week’s episode of Show Your Work on the Big Little Lies series finale – our thoughts on why BLL felt so essential, on how to meet the resistance to it (here’s the Vulture article Duana quoted about the way the series was dismissed, mostly by men, for being about the trivial dramas of women), and on how this was Bonnie’s episode and Zoe Kravitz Full Story

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Tina Fey is a choir nerd. It’s most clear to me from intense readings of Bossypants - she mentions that she was in audition-only choirs and it was a big deal, in a way that is clearly joking-but-not-joking. You get the impression that even though she’s an extremely successful writer and actress with a deeply enviable show business career, that she might be just as proud of her choir cred. Full Story

Chrissy Teigen was at the Women’s March in DC on Saturday as Duana and I were recording the latest episode of our Show Your Work podcast. She was making headlines the day before for tweeting about an encounter she’d had with a paparazzo who used a racist slur when photographing her and John Legend Full Story

If you’re the Schumer sisters, you go to the Emmys as twins. If you’re Amy Poehler and Tina Fey Full Story

“In your face, Charlie Murphy.” So here’s Matt Damon on the cover of the new issue of GQ ahead of the release of Jason Bourne. The article is a series of quotes. Matt’s talking about himself. And a lot of his famous friends are talking about Matt. Full Story

But she’ll be lining it up, that shot, and when it comes for you, well… Three years ago, while hosting the Golden Globes, Tina and Amy Poehler Full Story

This video is dark and loud but it’s a rare chance to hear Kate’s voice – she almost never speaks on camera. I think she even sings, very briefly, at the top of the video.   Arm wrestle mania brought to you by Kate Moss @chardefrancesco versus @lorenzomartone Full Story