After years of male anchors on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update," Tina Fey and Amy Poehler pushed the guys aside to become one of the funniest female duos in the history of SNL. While Poehler remained with SNL, Tina Fey went on to write, producer, and star in NBC's huge hit 30 Rock. Now Fey and Poehler have re-teamed for the big screen to star in Baby Mama,a comedy about a single, infertile businesswoman who hires a blue-collar girl to be a surrogate for her child.

With Baby Mama about to hit theaters on April 25, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler sat down with journalists at the film's press conference to talk how comedians can sway voters, kissing Greg Kinnear, singing Karaoke, Tina's solid gold helicopter, and Amy's fake hair.

Did you know Michael McCullers (the director) before?

TINA FEY: He had worked at SNL. My first year we were office mates and he watched the show. I think he did a good job.

AMY POEHLER: We thought he treated the topic sensitively while still making it really funny.

FEY: He had collaborated with Mike Myers and he has a sense of give and take when you work with improvisers and performers, like, they’re going to come in and adjust things, and he really let us improvise and it was fun.

How was he as an office mate?

FEY: He was a good office mate. He’d sit there and he would buy these car magazines, these fancy car magazines. Your first year on SNL is very stressful, so I would eat, like, a lot of lemon poundcake and he would buy car magazines.

POEHLER: My husband is like, "Oh, that’s a nice Mercedes"’ and I would say, "Oh, I thought it was Subaru."

How much improvisation was on the set?

FEY: Dax [Shepard] and even Steve Martin, who is not known to improvise, got into it and improvised stuff. It was a very friendly set for that kind of work.

POEHLER: And I think Tina and I are used to that kind of work that collaboration can lead to. There was a lot of give and take, and we’re so used to working with each other that we can pitch jokes to each other all day long. And we did a lot of "was that good?" and "no, I like the other one better," things you might not get to say to someone you just met.

FEY: Even Sigourney Weaver got to improvise, and she really liked it. She had fun in that group therapy scene because all the people in that scene are very funny.

FEY: In that scene, in that group therapy scene there is a scene where I’m trying to get Amy’s character to take a large pre-Natal vitamin.

POEHLER: We did a lot of improvising there. The Tom and Jerry bit we improvised, a lot of the car stuff. We just got into the club and figured what we wanted to shoot. And you weren’t supposed to kiss Greg Kinnear, you just went for it.

FEY: Greg Kinnear was not intended to be a love interest in the movie, but I tried to keep kissing him in all the scenes.

POEHLER: He was just visiting the set.

FEY: He was unaware that there were cameras, there’s a lawsuit pending.

POEHLER: Yeah, he’s a handsome guy.

FEY: I think that was to show how Holland Taylor’s character put so much pressure on Kate. It was a character defining moment for Holland’s character.

POEHLER: And I think, too, it’s one of many ways to show how people can say crazy things.

FEY: Yeah, when you’re pregnant, everyone feels the need to give you their crazy opinion.

POEHLER: So there’s a lot of that in the film where Kate has to handle giving her advice or figuring out why she wants what she wants.

Do you think comedians can sway voters?

FEY: I really don’t think comedians can sway voters. It would be underestimating American voters to think that they were going to change their opinion based on jokes. I think people can enjoy those jokes, laugh at those sketches and then they’re absolutely going to do what they feel is right in the voting booth.

How fun has it been doing SNL this year with the election coming up?

POEHLER: Well, because it gives me so much air time, because this election year has been awesome and, as you guys know, every day there is super interesting stuff, and so it was exciting to be back on the air commenting on it. And it was a really great time to be doing Update because the political stuff is so juicy. It’s been really fun to play her and to do scenes about the election because it’s changing every day. And I think some of the reaction to the Hillary stuff was a lot of the media reacting to the fact that we were talking about them. The media is always pleased when we are talking about them. So we talk a lot about media treatment about different campaigns, and they picked up on that. And these cable news shows are doing 24 hour coverage of the election.

FEY: That’s a lot of time to fill.

POEHLER: They like putting on sketches.

FEY: Five minutes of their 24 hour news cycle.

Is SNL doing any particular election specials?

POEHLER: They are doing four primetime political specials as well as Update leading up to it, and that’s end of September, early October.

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