Tina Fey realized something while watching Beyoncé’s daughters join the artist onstage on the Cowboy Carter tour.
During her guest host appearance on Today with Jenna and Friends, the Mean Girls star, 54, reacted to the “16 Carriages” singer, 43, bringing out her two daughters, Rumi, 7, and Blue Ivy, 13, for a special moment during her Cowboy Carter tour. Fey jokingly shared with host Jenna Bush Hager the one thing seeing Beyoncé’s daughters onstage taught her.
“This is really showing me that my kids are not doing enough,” she joked. “I’m out here on tour with Amy [Poehler]. Where are my kids? They should open for us.”
When Bush Hager asked if they’d be open to joining her on her tour, Fey said, “I think, actually, maybe both of them would be like, ‘Okay.'”
“Amy and I played shows at the Beacon Theater here in New York last spring, and we were there for like 11 nights, and my younger daughter she … wanted to come and watch from the wings, and it was really cute,” she added. “And then there was one section of the show, I was like, ‘You got to go home now’ because there’s one section where I kind of curse a little bit.”
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Ultimately, the proud mom said that she thinks Beyoncé bringing her girls onstage with her is “something nice” because it shows them just how hard their mom works.
“I think there is something nice to showing, especially in a live show like that, like this is, ‘look how hard your mom works,’ and like look how much work goes into being this amazing of a gifted artist as Beyoncé is,” she said. “I think that’s a really valuable thing for her daughters to be seeing.”
Fey keeps busy in her personal life with her husband Jeffrey Richmond, 64, and their two daughters. The actress married Richmond in 2001. Four years later, in 2005, the couple welcomed daughter Alice Zenobia, 19. Their second daughter, Penelope Athena, 13, followed in 2011.
The filmmakers raised their kids on the Upper East Side of New York City — a neighborhood Fey told PEOPLE was “a great place to raise a youngster,” in 2010.
Although Fey doesn’t have her daughter with her on tour, now that they’re older, she says they have gotten involved in her career.
The comedian asked Alice and Penelope for their input on her 2024 film adaptation of the Mean Girls musical. “Sometimes I would run things by the kids,” Fey told Entertainment Tonight at the film’s N.Y.C. premiere. “Like casting, or you know, like, ‘Should the burn book stay a book, or should it be a private Instagram account?’ And they’re like, ‘No, it’s a book, it’s a book.'”
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The Saturday Night Live alum attended the American Museum of Natural History 2023 Gala in New York City, where she exclusively opened up to PEOPLE about how her daughters were her toughest critics.
“You’re never cool [to your kids],” Fey said. “No, you’re never cool, and you shouldn’t try to be. Just let it happen!”
The star has figured out a solution, however, for winning them over. “We watch TV and we go, ‘We know that person. You like that show? We know them,’ ” Fey told PEOPLE. “And then they say, ‘No, you don’t.’ “
“Get some celebrity friends,” Richmond added. “There’s more than you think!”
“There’s so many of them, they’re easy to get,” Fey joked.
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