Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are forever fans of Saturday Night Live.
In a preview of this week’s Sunday TODAY, Fey, 53, shares that she and fellow SNL alum Poehler, 52, make time to watch the NBC late night show while on the road for their "Tina Fey & Amy Poehler: Restless Leg Tour".
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“If it's a Saturday, we go to our room, and we watch SNL from the hotel room,” the Mean Girls writer-producer tells host Willie Geist.
"We love watching it together. If we're not together, we'll live text during it,” she adds. “It's like someone who played sports, like, ‘Oh, I see. You know what? I bet this moved up from dress [rehearsal].’”
Fey, who left SNL in 2006, says the pair still “root for everybody” despite watching the show with a critical eye, explaining, “The head writer in me is always like, ‘Huh. Interesting. Maybe the game could've been clearer.’"
“My kids will sometimes say, my youngest will say, ‘Mom, you ruin everything because you’re always talking about how they’re doing it,'" she continues.
In 2021, Poehler opened up about her decades-long friendship with Fey on Sunday TODAY after the pals virtually co-hosted the Golden Globes together that year.
"I think it's rare and wonderful to meet somebody who's your friend who also works the same way that you do. Because we kind of trained at the same places and work the same way it's so easy," Poehler, who left SNL in 2008, said of Fey.
She continued, "We share a very similar vocabulary – especially when you're about to go do the Golden Globes or about to do live television for the first time or you're trying something new it feels really good to have somebody who knows your timing [and] your rhythm."
The Sisters costars also reflected on how they maintained their long-lasting friendship in a 2015 interview with Glamour.
"We don't see each other very often," Fey quipped at the time.
"That's right," Poehler chimed in, laughing. "It's like a good marriage. My mom always says it's very important to have people in your life who knew you when. The older you get, the more you treasure that idea of someone knowing your family and where you came from, and being around during these times and these times."
Poehler said that as neither of the stars have sisters, they've instead "rented them."
"We found sisters," Fey clarified.
Fey's full interview airs Sunday, Jan. 14 on NBC News’ Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist.
