-Our first guest tonight is an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning
actress you know from the hit comedy "Parks and Recreation,"
films like "Mean Girls" and "Sisters,"
and of course her work on "Saturday Night Live."
She co-hosts the show "Making It."
The third season premieres later this year on NBC.
please welcome back to the show, our very good friend,
Amy Poehler. Hello, Amy.
-Hi, Seth. -It's so wonderful to see you.
You were one of our first guests when this first hit
back in March.
Do you think you would have predicted we would be in this
situation now, 10 months later? -I did not picture it.
That was 10 months ago, we had no idea what was ahead.
We probably thought this would be a fun experiment
for a couple of months, then we were going to be
having dinner together in the summer.
Little did we know. -Little did we know.
Do you -- are you someone who would like to know the future,
if that was available to you? -No, no.
Maybe when I was younger, I thought I would want to know
what was going to happen.
Now I would rather someone just put me to sleep,
and wake me up when everything is better.
My kids were just watching "The Matrix" the other day,
and I was like, is there a waiting list for The Matrix?
-So "The Matrix" appeals to you, the longer you go?
-Yeah, yeah.
There are times when something takes a long time,
and it's really fun. You know...
and there are times when something won't end
and it's really stressful.
This is a time when it not ending is very stressful.
But I do like those times in life
where things are going on too long, and you're excited
because it's so stressful, does that make any sense?
If you go to a wedding and the dad gets up and starts to give
a speech that is really bad.
And you're not very good friends with the person getting married.
-Well, I've talked about this before, how you were such a
good laugher at read-through.
And a lot of times at read through,
I think a bad read-through sketch is a little bit like
a wedding toast that goes off the rails.
Everybody knows right away, and then you have people
that have to sort of very passionately perform something
knowing that it's tanking.
And you were a great laugher in those moments.
Do you think that was, in part --
because I thought you were doing it
because you were to trying to make people feel better.
But maybe you were taking a deep, gleeful joy
in knowing that something bad was going on too long?
-I'm proud of the fact that as I've gotten a little older,
I'm a little bit more comfortable
with being uncomfortable.
The uncomfortable isn't always as horrible as it used to be.
When I was younger, I was a little bit more co-dependent,
and wanted everybody to feel okay, and I wanted things to,
you know, I wanted to smooth everything out.
Now, the new me, Seth, the new me just really leans into
that kind of stuff now. -Well, that's good.
it's a very good time to be comfortable
with the uncomfortable. And obviously,
you've always been a forerunner, in my life,
being a little bit ahead of the curve as far as
what is the best way. [ Laughs ]
I have to say, I'm very -- my kids are younger than yours,
but that's very exciting that one of your kids
was watching "The Matrix."
That seems to me like a jackpot movie that holds up,
and it must be so fun to see through their eyes.
-Yeah, it's really exciting when your kids start to watch things
and report back to you, as if you don't know.
I think, you know, like, my kids would be like,
"You know, Led Zeppelin has a really good song."
Wow, cool. I'll have to pretend I don't know about it.
Or my little one the other day was like,
"You know what's cool about 'SNL'?
It's not always funny, but it's fun to watch."
-[ Laughs ]
-That's a good bumper sticker.
Look, it's not always funny, but it's fun to watch.
-I wish instead of the Broadway video logo at the end
of "SNL," it was just Lorne pouring a glass of wine,
at the end, it would go to credits, everybody is hugging.
And then it would be Lorne, he's going,
"It's not always funny, but it's fun to watch."
[ Laughter ]
Talking about different generations and your kids,
you directed and star in this film, "Moxie."
-Seth, that's what I'm here to talk about,
other than seeing you and saying hi.
-Right. You said you wanted to promote two things,
"Moxie" and "The Matrix". -Yes.
-Because they're, I think, I don't want to do the checking
but I think they're anagrams of each other.
[ Laughter ]
I think enough people knew about "The Matrix."
Keanu Reeves is great. -So good.
-He's not in "Moxie," but "Moxie" is a movie
that I directed, a film that I directed.
Do you remember movies? -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Now, everything is TV.
But there used to be this thing called movies.
And this is going to be on Netflix in March.
I'm really proud of it. We shot it last year.
And it's based off of the YA novel of the same name.
It's about a young girl's journey figuring out
what she cares about and all of the different people
and voices that help inform her, educate her,
and get her motivated.
-I want to talk more about the difference between
this cast and the "Wine Country" cast,
which was your last directorial effort,
and we're going to do that when we come right back
with more from Amy Poehler.