Tina Fey Worries She’s ‘Going to Hear It From Drake’ After Kendrick Lamar Joke at the 2025 Emmys

Tina Fey was crossing her fingers that Kendrick Lamar wouldn’t triumph champion unrecorded assortment peculiar astatine the Emmys connected Sunday (Sept. 14), but lone due to the fact that of however it mightiness person affected her adjacent pickleball day with Drake.

While presenting the class astatine the 2025 ceremony, the comedian joked astir her expected conflicts of involvement surrounding that night’s nominees for the award, which included some Dot’s record-breaking Super Bowl Halftime Show show and Saturday Night Live‘s 50th day special. “I americium successful an awkward presumption tonight, fixed my idiosyncratic relationships to the nominees for outstanding unrecorded assortment special,” Fey told the crowd, wringing her hands.

“Two of the nominees impact SNL, wherever I worked for 9 years, truthful if they win, radical mightiness deliberation I conscionable opened the envelope and said, ‘SNL!’ retired of habit,” she continued. “If Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime peculiar wins, I’m truly going to perceive it from Drake. And Drake and I are expected to play pickleball tomorrow.”

The actress’ quip earned a circular of laughs from the crowd, who astir surely retrieve however Lamar and Drizzy’s bitter feud played retired past year. After the 2 rappers unleashed respective diss tracks aimed astatine each different successful 2024, their rivalry culminated successful the Compton autochthonal straight calling retired his nemesis successful beforehand of millions during the Halftime Show successful February, staring close into the camera portion performing Billboard Hot 100-topper “Not Like Us” and taunting, “Say, Drake, I perceive you similar ’em young.”

With that successful mind, Fey added, “Really, the lone harmless result for maine would beryllium the Beyoncé Bowl — so, arsenic always, convey you, Beyoncé!”

As it turned out, the Mean Girls creator had thing to interest astir arsenic acold arsenic her pickleball buddy was concerned. SNL50: The Anniversary Special ended up winning the prize implicit Lamar and Beyoncé’s Netflix special, arsenic good arsenic the 2025 Oscars, which were besides nominated.

While accepting the award, SNL creator Lorne Michaels told the crowd, “I won this grant for the archetypal clip 50 years ago, successful 1975. I was younger and I had a batch of dreams — and not 1 of those dreams was that I’d inactive beryllium doing the aforesaid amusement for the adjacent 50 years, however, present we are.”

And portion Lamar didn’t snag the Emmy, helium inactive has a batch to amusement for his showcase astatine the 2025 Super Bowl. After performing hits specified arsenic “Humble” and ...