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Tina Fey fires back at 'little Broadway c--ts on TikTok' for their Mean Girls complaints

Fey also advised Bowen Yang to keep his movie opinions to himself: "Learn from Ayo."

Published on February 9, 2024 08:17PM EST

Tina Fey has had enough of your Mean Girls criticism.

The 30 Rock star sounded off against her new musical film’s detractors in an interview on the Las Culturistas podcast with hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. In the show’s final segment, “I Don’t Think So, Honey,” which encourages guests to rant about pop culture grievances, Fey tore into Mean Girls nitpickers for not appreciating some of the cast’s most talented vocalists.

“Little Broadway c--ts on TikTok [are] complaining about two lines of ‘Revenge Party’ when I bring you f---ing Reneé Rapp, I bring you Auli’i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey. This is why we can’t have nice things,” the actress, who wrote and costarred in the new movie musical, said.

It wasn’t immediately clear what “two lines” of “Revenge Party” Fey was referring to. Her tone suggests that stage musical purists were upset about differences between the Broadway version of the song and the version that made it into the movie. Some speculated on social media that Fey was referencing Janis’ lines in the first verse that repeats the word “cake” twice, while others noted that it could have been Angourie Rice’s delivery of a line about toppling Regina.

A rep for Fey declined to comment on the matter.

Earlier in the segment, Fey also advised Yang to keep his movie opinions to himself, recalling a recent podcast episode where he'd shared some criticism of Saltburn. “I don't think so, honey: Bowen Yang giving his real opinions about movies on this podcast! I regret to inform you that you are too famous now, sir,” she told the Saturday Night Live star. “You have a problem with Saltburn? Shh, quiet luxury. Keep it to yourself, because what are you going to do when Emerald Fennell calls you about her next project where you play Carey Mulligan's coworker in the bridal section of Harrod's and then act three takes a sexually violent turn, and you have to pretend to be surprised by that turn?”

“You have to have a clean paper trail: nothing negative, everything everyone does is amazing,” Fey continued. “Learn from Ayo: podcasts are forever. Authenticity is dangerous and expensive,” she said, referring to the recent recirculation of Ayo Edebiri trash talking Jennifer Lopez on the Scam Goddess podcast years before their SNL episode together.

Edebiri responded to Fey’s invocation on Yang’s Instagram post of the podcast clip. “LEARN FROM ME,” The Bear star said.