Jenna Bush Hager was reminded of the wild days of her youth when Tina Fey made a joke about underaged drinking while guest hosting Today With Jenna & Friends.
The Today host recounted that she and her classmates regularly left their high school for lunch. “We’d be going to like barbecue, we’d be eating ribs or chicken fried steak and we’d be expected to go back [to class],” she told Fey.
Fey then joked that they would also enjoy “a marg” with their lunch, which seemed to remind Bush Hager about the hilarious Saturday Night Live sketch Fey and Amy Poehler starred in, impersonating Bush Hager and her twin sister, Barbara.
“I think Amy got me right,” Bush Hager admitted on Today.
In the sketch, Poehler tries to hide how “wasted” she is from their father, U.S. President George W. Bush, as a way of ridiculing the former First Daughter for her two underaged drinking arrests. Fey, on the other hand, played Barbara as the more responsible and thoughtful sister.
“Barbara went to Yale, she missed one problem on the math SATs. She was sort of type cast,” Bush Hager told Fey, before dejectedly adding, “I was what Amy said I was. Floozy, a straight up floozy.”
But they shared a laugh over it as Bush Hager cut to commercial.
The Today host recently watched the sketch on the air with Poehler when she guest hosted the show in February. “We had fun in that sketch, we didn’t come too hard,” Poehler commented after watching the clip back. She admitted she was “totally sweating” watching it with Bush Hager. “It’s not always easy to sit next to the person that you impersonated.”
Bush Hager took no issue with Poehler’s portrayal of her. However, she pointed out that the skit may have been making fun of her college years, but it aired well after she had established a career for herself.
“I will say by that point in my life I was a teacher in Washington, D.C.,” Bush Hager revealed with a laugh. “Y’all may be thinking, ‘Oh she’s making fun of college Jenna,’ but by then I had actually graduated, I walked across the stage, and I was a teacher of third graders in Washington, D.C., but you still got a lot right.”
She then told Poehler that she wishes Poehler had reached out to her for “research.”
“I would have shown you what I did in those days,” she told the former SNL star.
Today with Jenna & Friends airs on weekdays at 10/9c on NBC.
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