From UPI.com:
Amy Poehler, Will.i.am, Jude Law and Katy Perry have been booked to appear on the 41st season of the U.S. children’s program “Sesame Street.”
Produced by Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization, the beloved show is to begin its new season Sept. 27.
Heading into the second term of its two-year curriculum, season 41 emphasizes everyday science investigation and encourages kids to ask specific questions and get excited about how the world works.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
“Parks and Recreation” star Amy Poehler and her husband, Will Arnett, are the parents of their second child. Abel James Arnett was born Friday morning and weighed seven pounds, 13 ounces. According to publicist Lewis Kay, the family is “healthy and resting comfortably.”
Poehler and Arnett’s eldest son, Archie, is two years old.
Poehler is nominated for an Emmy for her lead role on NBC’s “Parks.” In describing her Emmy plans to THR, Poehler said, “I am going to have a baby a couple weeks before. I do it every year. I get my hair and nails done, I get a facial, I have a baby and then I go to the Emmys.”
Arnett is also up for an Emmy for his guest role on “30 Rock” as Jack Donaghy’s flamboyant nemesis, and can be heard in the animated feature “Despicable Me.” His other credits include “Arrested Development,” “Semi-Pro” and “Jonah Hex.”
Congratulations to Amy and Will!
The Hollywood Reporter interviewed Any Poehler as part of its 2010 Emmy coverage. Click the “source” link for the full version!
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Leslie Knope is such a unique role. Describe this character in your own words.
She is like a well-intentioned traveler with a really bad sense of direction. She’s a person who believes that all it takes is one person to care to create change. She doesn’t have that set of skills you need, like sly negotiation skills and the ability to withhold praise and love. She is like an open-face sandwich. You always know what you’re going to get.Is there a scene from Season 2 that you think really impressed the TV Academy?
That’s way too hard for me to pick. But there was this one scene where I had just jumped off a bridge and I was on the top of a car shooting at these guys who thought I was a Russian spy. Oh wait, that was Angelina Jolie in “Salt.” That wasn’t me, but that scene looks good. I think that impressed the academy.Three of the five lead actress nominees are “Saturday Night Live” alums. Is that a coincidence or indicative of the training ground “SNL” provides?
It’s no surprise to me. I think Lorne Michaels has done more for women in comedy than anybody I know. It has been such a fertile ground for talented women. It’s an indication that, frankly, “SNL” is still the place where the funniest women reside.
For her Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy nomination, Amy Poehler has decided to submit “Telethon” to voters.
The episode, which aired May 6, was also written by Poehler.
From The New York Observer:
The beloved Parks and Recreation could only muster two nominations — one for star Amy Poehler and one for best theme song. And while it does have a great theme song, expect Poehler to take home the one Parks trophy that will matter. There is history here: America Ferrara, Tina Fey and last year’s winner, Toni Collette, were first time nominees on rookie-ish shows who won (Parks and Rec had a six-episode season one), and in all cases their victories seemed like a “shock.” If Poehler were to win, people would certainly be surprised, but her work on Parks and Recreation — turning her character from a one-note Michael Scott clone into a layered, well-meaning and original human being — deserves as many accolades as possible.
Earlier today, Amy Poehler earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress for her work on Parks and Recreation.
Here’s what she had to say about it!
From USA Today:
On how she and Will Arnett (who also got an Emmy nod today) plan to celebrate:
“We’re going to wake my kid up and give him a yogurt. Then we’ll go out and buy his and her Hummers, which we do every time we get nominated. Then we’ll fill them full of gas and drive them into the ocean. That’s how we like to party.”
On Will’s Emmy nomination:
“I have a rule that I only sleep with Emmy-nominated actors.”
From LA Times Show Tracker:
On what she did when she found out she won:
She withdrew cash and bought a small plane. “I should really find out if any money comes with this nomination. More seriously: “It’s been a great year for women in comedy. To be included among them is just excellent.”On if she wins:
She’ll fashion the statue into a broach to wear on her lapel. “Either that, or I would design an apartment around it. I have no room for false modesty. It would be the first thing you saw when you walked into the place.”On what Leslie Knope would say at her acceptance speech:
“She would be ill-prepared. She would spend a precious 20 seconds thanking the kind person who filled her seat while she went to the bathroom. Then she would end with a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt or an empowering lyric from Salt-n-Pepa.”
From HitFix:
On the Emmy nod:
“It was a tough category. There’s a lot of really talented ladies, so I knew it would be a tough one. So I’m pleasantly surprised and very grateful.”
On the rest of the Parks and Recreation cast:
“I think we have the best ensemble in television, so I feel I’m just representing what I feel is the best cast on TV. Everyone’s name should have been up there, too, obviously. I think that what’s great is people are really responding to the show, and I hope that will be represented next season.”
On Nick Offerman’s Emmy snub:
“A lot of people don’t know that there’s a separate Emmy for people’s mustaches. Ron Swanson’s mustache will be the Tony Shalhoub of mustaches.”
On what Leslie would do if she won an Emmy:
“I think she’d be really bad at managing the time of her speech. She’d practice and think she’d got down to 30 seconds, and the music would come up after she thanked Ron and maybe her mother. And she’d probably end up making Emmys for everyone else in the office and awkwardly having a weird presentation that happened on the weekend that nobody wanted to go to. And there might be a moment where she’d lose her purse, with her speech in it. She’s not too good with speeches. Whereas I am… oh boy, as you can tell from this interview, just amazing at them.”
