She played a horrified employee in a sketch where Will Ferrell shows up to the office in a patriotic thong. Poehler debuted on SNL in September 2001, appearing in the first show to air after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. After a few years in New York, Poehler got her big break when she was hired as a featured performer on Saturday Night Live. In 1996, she and her fellow comics moved UCB to New York City, where the troupe scored regular gigs on The Conan O'Brien Show and, later, a show of its own on Comedy Central in 1998. Poehler joined another comedic troupe called the Upright Citizens' Brigade (UCB), a spin-off of ImprovOlympics. Poehler and Fey, who would later appear as "Weekend Update" anchors together on Saturday Night Live ( SNL), met each other through an improv group called Inside Vladimir, which someone had named after an adult video found at a local convenience store. At Boston College, Poehler became a member of the college's improvisational comedy troupe, My Mother's Fleabag.Īfter graduation, she moved to Chicago in 1993 to pursue a professional career in comedy, joining the comedy theaters ImprovOlympics and Second City, which have produced such famous alumni as Stephen Colbert, Chris Farley and Tina Fey. Her parents, Eileen and William Poehler, were both school teachers. Early Years and Meeting Tina Feyīorn September 16, 1971, in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts, Amy Poehler grew up in Burlington, Massachusetts. After 17 nominations, Poehler finally won her first Emmy in September 2016. Poehler starred as Leslie Knope in the sitcom Parks and Recreation from 2009 to 2015. Poehler's big break came when she was hired as a featured performer on Saturday Night Live. After graduating college, comedian and actress Amy Poehler moved to Chicago and joined the improv troupes Second City and the Upright Citizens' Brigade.
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