everyone, please welcome sara bareilles, renee elise goldsberry, paula pell and busy phillips [ cheersght? >> thank you for what you do, and what you did this year [ applause ] >> wow, wow, wow >> jimmy: i want to talk about your show, "girls5eva. you play a girl group from the '90s that reunite. >> yeah. >> jimmy: right? based on a rapper samples one of your -- >> samples, yeah >> we find ourselves, sort of, thrust in the spotlight again, and we think, why don't we make a go of it as ladies who are a a bit older and have learned things >> jimmy: yeah and "girls5eva," is that just the name of you, or how do you come up with the name? >> well, yeah, like, 4eva is too short so - >> jimmy: wow. >> yeah. 5 eva obviously. >> jimmy: i know tina fey has her finger in this one again, she is just a genius. obviously, paula, we've worked with tina forever. gosh so is this from her mind who is producing this now? >> meredith scardino created it >> jimmy: meredith scardino? oh, she did kimmy schmidt right. she's brilliant as well. >> brilliant >> jimmy: and jeff - >> and jeff richmond did the musi

my next guest is grammy-award winning singer-songwriter sara bareilles.girl group that reunites 20 years after their one-hit wonder. ♪ sitting near my piano ♪ write your truth down ♪ sitting at my friend's piano in my apartment ♪ ♪ actually, it's my brother's apartment ♪ i still pay him rent >> trevor: sara bareilles, welcome to "the daily social distancing show." >> i'm so happy to be here. >> trevor: i am glad that you are here because you're one of the people who very early on had covid and everybody experienced different symptoms. i've heard some artists who have said that their vocal chords were never the same. are you completely fine now? >> i-- i somehow escaped relatively unscathinged. actually, i was so, so lucky. yeah, it was-- it was a very mild case really early on, last march. i had been in london, and i was doing a show i wrote called "waitress from the west end," and i think pretty much everyone in our cast got it. >> trevor: wow. >> and for me it was pretty mild. but, you know, i lost a friend to covid, nick cordero was one of our company

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sara bareilles did one song.e a lot of deep cut short songs. like, there's a song that they sing with vanessa williams called -- it's like -- ♪ tbf tiny butts forever ♪ [ laughter ] people are always gonna like tiny butts there's a lot of funny songs >> jimmy: i just know -- it's a brilliant idea too because you're like, "oh, yeah someone sampled the girls5eva song like, "let's bring the band back. >> yeah. >> jimmy: let's bring back - >> and then they come on this program thank you for being in the pilot. >> jimmy: i'm in the pilot, i'm so psyched they come on "the tonight show." >> and come on "the tonight show." >> jimmy: and hit it big >> mm-hmm. >> jimmy: gosh, it's just fantastic. and then if it couldn't be any better, you come on the show >> oh, yeah. >> jimmy: which, dude, i love that, i was like, you're just going to play a character. you come on -- can i get this? >> oh, no. >> jimmy: and you were as dolly parton, you played dolly parton [ cheers and applause it's an amazing -- i didn't even know you ha

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and it's about a girl group, from the '90s, who reunite and it's got sara bareilles, renee elise goldsberrysy philipps. great cast well, they were on the show last night so, me and the roots got together with them to sing the most iconic girl group song, "wannabe," by the spice girls. check it out ♪ ♪ yo i'll tell you ♪ ♪ what i want what i really really wan so tell me what you want what you really ♪ ♪ really want i'll tell you what i wan what i reall really want ♪ ♪ so tell me what you wan what you reall really wan i wanna i wanna i wanna ♪ ♪ i wanna i wanna reall really reall wanna zigazig ah if you want my future ♪ ♪ forget my pas if you wanna get with me better make it fas now don't go wasting ♪ ♪ my precious tim get your act togethe we could be just fin i'll tell you what i want ♪ ♪ what i really really wan so tell me what you want what you really ♪ ♪ really want i wanna i wanna i wann i wanna i wanna really really really ♪ ♪ wanna zigazig a if you wanna be my lover you gotta ge with my friends ♪ ♪ gotta get with my friends make it last forever friendship never end if you wanna be my l

grammy winner and singer sara bareilles.onder girl group from the '90s gets sampled by a young rap artist, the women reunite to give their pop star dreams one more shot. full confession, i got to see three episodes of "girls 5 eva.♪ ♪ gonna be famous 5 eva, uh ♪ >> stop it. >> reporter: while the show is very much a laugh out loud comedy, there's something very meaningful about seeing a group of women embracing their second chance at fulfilling a dream >> it was the contest at the mall hoda, we all showed up no, i mean, i feel so grateful oh, my god, i'm going to cry am i crying? i'm about to cry the hardest year in all our lives. someone called me, tina fey, the best in the world, and offered me my dream come true. three, four months working with the most incredible women and singing with the most talented singers and pretend that you were a pop star. i fell on the ground. ♪ girls 5 eva ♪ >> too early >> oh! >> i was nervous to sign on. i was like, i think you called the wrong person i don't know what you think, like, this