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The best of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

Back to host their third Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, BFFs Tina and Amy are sure to skewer and rib the Hollywood elite. We've rounded up their best riffs on each other.
By Lora Grady
Jan 12, 2014; Beverly Hills, USA; 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals - Los Angeles. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler attend the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 12, 2014.. URN:18662299. Mandatory Credit: Photo by AFF/EMPICS Entertainment/KEYSTONE Press © Copyright 2014 by EMPICS Entertainment Hosts with the most: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler at the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles. Photo, Keystone Press.

Though Amy Poehler joked that she and Tina Fey will be “like the Jay Z of the [Golden] Globes and never retire,” this year marks the last time they’ll preside over the awards show (January 11 at 8 p.m. ET). But fear not: Judging by these quotes, we suspect the pair will riff off each other for decades to come.

Amy on Tina

“Look, if she sets her mind to it, it gets done. Tina is not the kind of artist who makes people wait around and misses her deadlines. She’s a finisher. (And I mean that in the sexual sense.)” — From the New York Times

“Sometimes Tina is like a very talented bungee-jumping expert. All it takes is for Tina to softly say, ‘We can do this, right?’ and I suddenly feel like I can jump off a bridge.”  — From Poehler’s book, Yes Please

“I don’t care if [my] a girl or a boy, I want it to marry Alice Richmond, Tina’s daughter. We’d make a lovely mother and mother-in-law of the bride.”  — A pregnant Amy in an interview with USA Today

“She’s the same way back then as she is now, which is really, really funny and incredibly hard-working and a very supportive and loyal friend. But she was a lot less rich. That was the only difference: she was like 100 percent less rich.” — From the New York Times

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Tina on Amy

“Amy made it clear that she wasn’t Saturday Night Live> to be cute. She wasn’t there to play wives and girlfriends in the boys’ scenes. She was there to do what she wanted to do, and she did not f---ing care if you like it.” — From Fey’s book, Bossypants

“Dictionary.com defines ‘Amy Poehler’ as ‘results not found.’ I take that as a testament to your uniqueness.” — Video message to Amy when she won the Variety Power of Comedy Award

“My sweet friend Amy Poehler . . . I’ve stolen so many of your moves. Amy, I’ve known you since you were pregnant with Lena Dunham. I’ve known you so long, and I love you.” — Accepting a Screen Actors Guild award in 2013

"Not only is she not afraid to look silly, she's not afraid to let you throw her in the air like a basketball and catch her." — From People 

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Tina & Amy together

Amy: “Being a tough, capable broad has never been easy — look at us. Although we did have a lot of fun on Baby Mama. Boy, did we play a lot of pranks on each other.”

Tina: “We love pranks. I mean, we're kind of like Cloons and Damon that way, doing a lot of, like, $250,000 pranks. I did a really funny prank where I got my assistant to paint all the cars in your neighborhood white so you would wake up and think it was snowing. That was a good one.”

Amy: “I had an assistant fill your trailer with rats on Christmas Eve, and we laughed. Oh, the pranks.”

Tina: “So much pranking.”

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— From Marie Claire

Check back on Monday for Tina and Amy's best lines from this year's Golden Globes

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