It wasn’t quite an autobiography, it was sort of a loose collection of stories and essays), but in the autobiography of her good friend, Tina Fey, Bossypants (Bossypants is a legit memoir, and it’s quite good).įey explained how she had fought to get Amy Poehler on to the cast of Saturday Night Live after Fey started working there (eventually becoming the show’s head writer). In a rather odd turn of events, this story was told not by Poehler in her own autobiography, Yes, Please (or whatever Yes, Please was. This isn’t the story of some feud between them, but rather just about Poehler sort of making a statement about her brand of comedy when she first started working on Saturday Night Live. This is Quite a Story, a sort of catch-all feature where I share short, interesting anecdotes from interviews or books that don’t really fit into any other feature.Īn important part of this story is that Jimmy Fallon and Amy Poehler are both good friends with each other.
Today, we look at the classic response that Amy Poehler gave Jimmy Fallon when he jokingly chastised her for telling a joke he felt wasn’t “cute” back when Poehler first joined the cast of Saturday Night Live.
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