TV Updates Jon Hamm and Tina Fey: One Good Joke Jon Hamm looked great last night at the premiere of Jonathan Tropper’s Your Friends & Neighbours, premiering on Apple TV+ on Friday. It’s about a successful hedge fund manager who gets fired and ends up stealing from people in his neighbourhood. Amanda Peet plays his wife and his By Lainey • Apr 09, 2025 01:13 pm
TV Updates Colman’s comedy with bonus Tina Fey thoughts Tina Fey has a relatively successful relationship with Netflix, with breakout hit Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and the more modestly received Wine Country, and now she is returning to the streamer with The Four Seasons, a miniseries remake of the 1981 film of the same name written and directed by Alan By Sarah • Mar 21, 2025 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Plastics are back and the same as ever Mean Girls was a hit book (title Queen Bees and Wannabes), then a hit movie, then a hit musical, now it’s a movie again, and hoping to be a hit once more. The new film is an adaptation of the stage musical based on the 2004 film, and it By Sarah • Jan 12, 2024 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A musical Mean Girls Mean Girls is a generation’s Clueless (which is a generation’s Heathers), but now Mean Girls will be another generation’s Mean Girls as the 2004 film has a new, musical version coming to theaters in 2024. Mean Girls—which some will insist on calling a “cult classic” despite By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 11:31 am
Golden Globes 2021 Amy & Tina: Separate Coasts, Same Rhythm Did you notice that the Globes kept calling them “Amy & Tina”? No last names, because at this point, they don’t need them. Not in showbiz generally, but not at the Golden Globes specifically, where they’ve had essentially a casual residency, shared with Ricky Gervais, over the past By Duana • Mar 01, 2021 07:18 am
TV Updates The Show For Our Girl Band Dreams If you’ve never wanted to be in a pop band with your friends, skip to the next. The rest of you know what I’m talking about. This is part of the reason why, in particular, for girls in the 90s, the Spice Girls were the sh-t. We loved By Lainey • Oct 23, 2020 12:09 pm
Amazingness Intro for September 11, 2020 Dear Gossips, If you only consume one piece of pop culture today, let it be Tina Fey quizzing Mariah Carey on Mean Girls. Even if you aren’t a lifelong member of the Lambily, you should know that this is Mimi’s favourite movie. Nobody loves Mean Girls more than By Lainey • Sep 11, 2020 09:15 am
TV Updates Tina Fey’s Intent As I wrote yesterday in my apology post, in this moment, power structures are being challenged, everyone is being challenged, and those of us who have been complicit and complacent are facing a reckoning – and that’s a good thing. Institutionalised racism and misogyny is being confronted. This is happening By Lainey • Jun 23, 2020 10:06 am
TV Updates Modern Love: Not all romance is created equal 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’ By Sarah • Oct 29, 2019 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews An amazing day in Wine Country 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. Now, we have a trailer for Wine Country, and it looks as funny and adorable as you’d expect. Poehler By Sarah • Apr 12, 2019 10:18 am
Oscars 2019 Amy, Tina, and Maya MeanGirled the Academy 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 By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 04:20 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Tina’s blue plaid suit Have you noticed a change in Tina Fey’s style lately? I don’t remember her, in the past, in a lot of print. And I don’t remember her, in the past, in a lot of colour. And there’s been a lot of both lately. No complaints. Check By Lainey • Jun 04, 2018 04:13 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Kardashian Decade 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 By Lainey • Aug 21, 2017 04:04 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Scarjo’s box office and Tina Fey’s credits 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 Lainey • Apr 04, 2017 04:18 pm
Amazingness Mean Girls: The Musical - For Nerds, By Nerds 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. By Duana • Mar 22, 2017 12:43 pm
Equality Issues Show Your Work: Paparazzi and Morning TV 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 By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 04:35 pm
