Tina Fey and Will Forte talk with Audacy's Kevin Klein about the new Netlfix series, 'The Four Seasons.'
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00:01Sitting with two comedy legends right now.
00:03Thank you so much for this show, The Four Seasons, Netflix.
00:06Up until now, Is It Cake was my favorite Netflix show.
00:09Why is this a better show than Is It Cake?
00:12Why is it better than Is It Cake?
00:13Because any cake you see on this show is cake.
00:15The uncertainty is gone.
00:17Thank God, because I get fooled every time.
00:20I watched this entire show with my wife.
00:22We're in a fight now.
00:23Perfect.
00:24Do you think that couples watching this show together
00:26is a good idea or a bad idea?
00:29I think a couple should get two separate Netflix accounts
00:32and watch it separately.
00:34It probably is that kind of thing where you will see in it
00:38what you're experiencing, whether it's good or bad.
00:41You'll be able to...
00:43What you take from it is what is currently being reflected.
00:48Oh, it's like therapy almost.
00:49From your life.
00:50Yeah.
00:51It's interesting because recently I had a conversation about
00:54my wife thinks I have a crush on my dental hygienist.
00:56Mm-hmm.
00:57Got brought up once randomly.
00:58Oh, wow.
00:59Never got mentioned again.
01:00Oh, wow.
01:01And then...
01:02We're watching the show.
01:03Shit.
01:04Lo and behold, someone has a fling.
01:05Starts dating a dental hygienist.
01:06And of course, that immediately turns into an argument.
01:09But it's interesting how much any relationship in any stage
01:13is very much represented in the show.
01:15And it does lead an interesting question, which is where is your loyalty lie?
01:18Longtime friends or longtime romantic partner?
01:22Right.
01:23Wow.
01:24Yeah, that's a tough question.
01:25I mean, I think that's a little bit of what kind of goes on with our characters.
01:31It's like, you know, I'm running off to go hang out with Danny, my longtime best friend.
01:35And you call it out.
01:36You're like, you would literally rather hang out with anyone else but me.
01:39And I think in the moment, in that moment in the series, that's true.
01:42And that's kind of like something that my character has to own up to.
01:45Because I think, boy, you're married a long time.
01:47Like, you can get caught in that behavior.
01:49I've been married 13 years.
01:51So I have friends now that are divorced, friends that are still single, friends that are the process.
01:55Mm-hmm.
01:56And I think another thing that doesn't really get addressed a lot, which you do such a great job of in the show,
02:00is that when one of your groups of friends is going through something in a relationship, it does affect the whole group.
02:07And it can affect that long time hang that goes where you go on vacations together.
02:12Mm-hmm.
02:13In your personal lives, when you have friends that come to you for advice in relationships,
02:18do you try to get them to make it work just so that you can keep the friendship group together?
02:22Yeah, that's such an interesting thing.
02:24I haven't had to go through that too often, but I always, like, am shy to give advice.
02:30Because, like, if you're not inside it with them, you know, it's too hard to know.
02:35You don't want to push someone to stay or to leave.
02:37Because, like, you don't really.
02:38Have you?
02:39I would give the advice that would potentially upend the group.
02:44Like, you just should be happy as a person.
02:47Like, if staying with that person is what's going to make you happiest as a person, then that's, then do it.
02:54But, like, if it's not, then, yeah, they just need the truth.
02:59But I don't, like, make decisions. I just pose questions.
03:02Yeah.
03:03Smart.
03:04But I do think, like, you know, the friend group will survive all this.
03:08If it's a friend group worth having, it'll survive something like that.
03:12As it pertains to friends going on vacations together, who is the most annoying type of friend to have on a vacation?
03:18The friend that overplans every second you have?
03:21That's me.
03:22You?
03:23I mean, I don't know.
03:24Not on a friend trip.
03:25On a family trip, yes.
03:27I mean, for me, it's the person who's, like, always late.
03:31That's, that's, that's, I'm like, you know, if we said we're going at 10, let's go at 10.
03:36But that's because I still have, like, a comedy tour, like, Second City tour van mentality.
03:41I'm a 10.05 person.
03:43Mm-hmm.
03:44Okay.
03:45Not, like, crazy late, but it's always five months for some reason.
03:48Tina could have cast anyone as her love interest in this show.
03:50And she picked you over the Cloonies, the Brad Pitt's of the world.
03:54What do you think it is about you that she said, this is the guy I want to be my romantic partner in the four seasons?
03:59I don't know.
04:00I don't know.
04:01And I am pinching myself.
04:04It was a very exciting call to have because I, you know, I've known her for years and years.
04:09But, you know, she is one of the best there is of all time.
04:18And just to know that she wanted to trust me with this role to play her husband was a real honor.
04:28Yeah.
04:29I think I'm very lucky.
04:30I'm blessed to have a lovely real husband in real life and to have such a kind and smart and funny fake husband.
04:38What a blessing for me.
04:39Final question.
04:40What is a bigger kiss of death in a relationship?
04:43Renewing the vow ceremony or matching tattoos?
04:46I think the vow ceremony is, it's always a red flag city.
04:53I will just for the sake of counterpoint, I'll say matching tattoos.
04:57All right.
04:58Look at that.
04:59That's good improv right there.
05:00Combative, guys.
05:01Thanks for the show.
05:02Really fantastic show.
05:04I didn't fall asleep during any episode.
05:05Which for me is, I wake up at three in the morning.
05:06That's impossible.
05:07Of all the shows you could, your wife could be watching this with me.
05:09It's pretty, this one's pretty easy.
05:10The great Tina Fey Wilford, thanks so much.
05:14Thanks.