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Baby Mama Drama

The Oprah Winfrey Show  |  May 29, 2008
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler discuss comedy.

From an early age, both women say they realized they had a gift for comedy. "I think somewhere around 7th, 8th grade, [I thought,] 'Oh, I'm not one of the pretty girls. I've got to have another move. I've got to have something else going on,'" Tina says.

"I would do serious plays and people would laugh," Amy says. "So I knew."

Amy says she doesn't shy away from much in order to get a laugh from the audience. "One time, Tina wrote a scene and I had to fall into a Dumpster on SNL," Amy says. "I came out of a trash chute into a Dumpster, and I hit my head and I kind of blacked out on live TV."

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