I thought Jane Krakowski and Laura Benanti might be friends from their time working on NINE. Obviously the fact they worked together doesn't mean they are friends, but I guess in my fan dream they would have been. Guess not.
I don't see how Funny or Die or Krakowski's people stole the other concept. This sort of fake audition parody is pretty common, and the jokes are very much tied to Krakowski's comedic persona (the pixie dust addiction, the sexualized singing, the "Cabaret" performance, etc).
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"