When it's your birthday, you can cry if you want to and demand anything you want. Within reason.
And Lena Dunham did just that for her pal Mindy Kaling who celebrated her 36th birthday yesterday.
So while Mindy wore a set of pyjamas, designed by Lena, she tweeted this request: "I would also love a dubsmash of @lenadunham doing a portion of @tomhanks iconic 'there's no crying in baseball' speech!"
Natually the Girls actress did not disappoint.
And although Lena appeared to be on the set of her hit HBO show, when she filmed the lip-sync vid, it didn't stop her from embracing her inner Jimmy Dugan (played by Tom Hanks) from A League of Their Own.
As well as Mindy saying she's watched Lena's vid 'a million times', so have we.
Love Lena Dunham. Love A League of Their Own. Love Tom Hanks.
Oh, and happy belated birthday Mindy!
Now can we tweet a birthday request, Lena?
Girls Season 4, episode 3 recap - Female Author
1 of 5Pre-writing phase
Hannah’s still not REALLY bonding with her classmates – especially as she’s feeling insecure about her writing, admitting to Elijah that Marnie “wrote half of my papers”. Who knew? “I’m in a more pre-writing phase?” she adds to Jessa.Meanwhile, fuelled by a heady mix of what looks like WKD Blue and self-righteousness, Hannah tells her classmates exactly what she thinks of them. It’s not pretty. Only another couple of months sitting in the same room with them, eh?
2 of 5Non-selfie-selfies
We called it: this is Elijah’s series, because he gets all the best lines: “I got so good at taking selfies, I wasn’t challenged anymore. I thought: what would happen if I turned the camera … around?”
3 of 5Starbutts
Marnie, back in New York, is very torn up about being Desi’s “mistress”. "He puts his hand on my butt when we’re in line in Starbucks!” she insists. No WAY does that hipster go to Starbucks, Marnie, let’s be honest here. She’s so tense about the whole thing, she makes their record company meeting super-awkward…
4 of 5AGAIN?
…which leads to a lovely public row. “I already know what I want, and you’re not offering it to me,” says Marnie.We’d say she’s finally seen the light, but earlier in the episode she has sex with Ray. Again. One step forward, one step back.
5 of 5Secrets and weeing
Now, what’s going on with Jessa and Adam? They’re seeing each other daily (at AA meetings) and Jessa seems to know that Adam’s seeing someone new – yet she hasn’t told Hannah. What’s going on? Well, Jessa gets arrested for weeing in the street, and it kicks off a mini-meltdown where she admits that she really needs Adam to be her friend.This explains a LOT – and that’s why she’s keeping Hannah in the dark about Adam’s new girlfriend. Oh Jessa. This can’t end well.