Poehler admires Rudolph for always looking like she's 'having fun'
“Weirdly, I remember thinking, ‘My friend is here! My friend is here!’ Even though things had been going great for me at the show, with Amy there, I felt less alone.”Īmy Poehler as Betty, Maya Rudolph as Jodi and Tina Fey as Karen during the "Bronx Beat" sketch on 'Saturday Night Live' on DecemPhoto: Dana Edelson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images “I was so happy,” Fey wrote in her 2011 autobiography, Bossypants, of her eventual "Weekend Update" co-anchor. The following year, Fey followed suit, moving to the Big Apple, taking a job writing for NBC’s Saturday Night Live - and, of course, also reuniting with Poehler to perform with the Upright Citizens Brigade from time to time.Īfter years of trying to recruit Poehler for SNL, Fey finally succeeded in 2001. In 1996, Poehler left her spot in Chicago’s Second City improv comedy troupe (which Fey would ultimately earn) to establish her sketch group, the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City.
There was absolutely nothing pointing to the fact that anyone on our team would be successful in any kind of comedy career.” It took years for Fey to convince Poehler to join 'SNL' We took classes together and sat in the back… When we did scenes together, they weren’t particularly funny or interesting. When writing her 2014 memoir, Yes Please, Poehler further reflected on the beginning of her friendship with Fey: “She was sharp, shy, and hilarious. Her name was Tina and she was like me but with brown hair.” As Poehler explained, “ said there was another new improviser in another one of her classes whom she thought I would really like. In reality, the improv theater’s co-founder Charna Halpern introduced the women to one other. “I was 22 or 23, and I had only recently learned that you can pluck your eyebrows or have a lady put hot wax on them and remove portions of them and shape them,” Fey has said of the wisdom she supposedly imparted to Poehler. Poehler taught Fey her 'first real beauty lesson'įey and Poehler first met in 1993 at a Chicago ImprovOlympic Theater class, where the latter has joked that she got her “first real beauty lesson” from her now-close pal. Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler backstage during the 91st Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2019, in Hollywood, California Photo: Matt Sayles - Handout/A.M.P.A.S.
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