Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler ran hard and funny during their time behind the desk in the ‘Weekend Update’ segments of ‘Saturday Night Live’ years ago, with both moving on to their own comedic paths. Seth and Amy did a surprise bit last night on ‘Late Night’ with their ‘REALLY!?” angry joke rant signature. This week they riff on today’s political differences with a wonderful results.
Poehler is starring in the new comedy ‘The House’ with Will Ferrell which comes out June 30th. Here she talks with Meyers about begging Ferrell to write a sketch together during their brief tenure together on the comedy clubhouse that is SNL. Watch Will Ferrell’s mustache fight with Jimmy Fallon on ‘the Tonight Show’ here.
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Poehler cut her teeth in improv and sketch on the stages of Chicago’s Second City and Improv Olympic before forming the influential Upright Citizens Brigade which would revolutionize modern comedy with theaters on both coasts. ‘UCB’ also had a brief run on Comedy Central as a counter culture sketch TV show, before Poehler leaped into network TV with SNL.
