okay here we go now our first guest is a funny and talented uh woman starring in a new film entitled
baby mama it opens april 25th here is the lovely amy poehler ladies and gentlemen you look great
thank you very much beautiful you know paul by the way paul we were in the picket line together
yes we were there so you go way back you're old buddies yeah we had a lot of good times
well you look tremendous too by the way did i say that oh thank you so very much i tried to
clean up my act tonight uh what about spring in new york city it's great isn't it great
great weather so exciting and you know um i love the thing i love about new york is
spring is window washing season for a lot of people that don't know that's right it makes
perfect sense and i live in a highrise in new york city and recently um i was working on snl
and we have kind of a hard you know hard hours late hours so every once in a while
i have to take a little half a sleeping pill maybe to go to bed or to do an interview
and um you know whatever it takes sure i understand whatever it takes but we all we all
have our we all have our ways and so um recently i took i took my sleeping pill took a shower kind
of stumbled out of the shower and fell right in the top of my covers naked went to sleep wow i
know what you're thinking so no no you don't know what i'm thinking what do you think i'm thinking
no it's a window watching oh yeah no i wasn't thinking of that yeah so um i fell asleep the
blinds were down in my apartment and the lights were out and my husband uh is really excited about
our blinds there's those kind of fancy automated things that go up real slow you know what i mean
you push a button and it's really great yeah um and and wait a minute when did they go up slow
well the cool thing is he hooked it up to our alarm clock so when the alarm clock goes off
the lights and the blinds go up real slow to wake you up gently this guy's a genius
wow yeah the to the like the clock radio and then i'm married to my super oh yeah
he's great he's really handy so he hooked it up to the alarm clock but um it goes up so slow often uh
that i don't wake up imperceptible it's too gentle and again i was on about a half a sleeping pill so
um the blinds went up slowly i woke up two hours later to find that the window washers had been
outside my window for like two hours
and they just say they were treated to a really boring slow peep show
uh and we made eye contact when i woke up and uh the gentleman i
i don't think was a fan of my work or my works then how uh how did we uh call an end to this
uh we just kind of politely waved and then i put the blankets over my head and i laughed
i liked that story uh and you're uh did you grow up in boston yes is that where
you were born i was born there yes yeah and i thank you and um burlington was a great place
i didn't act a lot when i was there but i did um do some school plays and stuff there's not
i guess maybe then or i don't know are there a lot of opportunities to act in boston well yeah
i'm sure there are i don't i didn't know of any of them at the time i think i i knew like ice
cream you know restaurant opportunities at the time but i was in in a fourth grade production
of the wizard of oz which if you if you're not familiar with the play great parts for women
really really some juicy parts and um i was playing dorothy and this is the first time i
kind of got the bug or thought that i wanted to to improvise because um there's a scene in um in
the wizard of oz where there's a tornado happening and dorothy is uh looking for toto she says toto
toto where are you well in the play i was holding a dog and so on the first night i said toto toto
where are you but i was holding the dog that's a that's a mistake isn't it yeah i gotta laugh but
the wrong kind you know and so the second night i learned if i just take the dog put it down
and then say toto toto where are you and then pick it back up
um i win yeah that's about winning that was it that was the moment you knew you had something
what is your connection if there is one to to sweden do you have yes my brother lives
in stockholm oh yes oh he lives inside he married a swedish girl and that's what it is and i don't
know have you ever been to stockholm oh yeah it's lovely unbelievable it's beautiful and it is
filled with the most beautiful people i mean a a two in sweden is a nine in england yeah believe me
sorry it's true that's right and um and the swedes are very direct they uh they don't have they don't
use a lot of words they have actually i think about a quarter or a half of as many words as we
do so they like to kind of tell it to you straight and um a a moment that i enjoyed is my brother's
wedding in sweden some relatives got up to to speak about the couple and one relative got up
and said my brother's name is greg and and she got up and said when we met greg we did not like him
that was her that was her opener
and you attribute that to the language yes well and we were kind of laughing and the rest of them
were like we are being direct why are you upset we're leaving time for more drinking
wow and is his wife stunningly beautiful oh yeah gorgeous what did he do in sweden he um he used
to be a lawyer here in new york and now he he teaches um american law in in sweden wow pretty
good deal speaks the language and it's a really really difficult language to learn and it's a
beautiful language good uh now when you have a of course now we're talking about the campaign
and you have hillary clinton on and you have you've had everybody
yeah we've had all the politicians and and you you do them and is it uh i mean it's one thing
to do somebody on the show when they're not around but to to do them on the show when they're right
there that must be extra pressure it's very weird to talk to someone when you're dressed as them
it's very off-putting no it's never happened in my never actually yeah i bet that would be weird
it would be it is very weird and you know we've had a lot of politicians come through
and um you know they're they're politicians for a reason because they're great at remembering
your name dave yeah yeah let's show these pictures well now that we're chatting about
this well that's my fav this might be my favorite i hope kucinich makes a comeback
because that's me that's kristen wiig uh and uh that's me i'm wearing a tiny suit
and little ears and he has a a a lovely he has a lovely let's see in a hot way
hot wife yeah and uh yeah and that was the scene where he was really excited about his hot wife now
this uh this is exactly what we're talking about right there yeah right right next to each other
yeah i think that the joke there was that um she let me borrow her earrings for the sketch
uh-huh and then what do you talk about when you're uh you know between
rehearsal or visits oh we just trade dirty jokes you know see again i would not have
guessed that uh and now the the film a baby mama explain this to me it's it's about a surrogate
prank yes it's a comedy that tina fey and i are in and uh she is a career woman who can't have
a baby so she hires a surrogate played by me kind of a blue collar philly girl to have her baby for
and um we're very different and we have to kind of move in together and figure out how to create this
thing together and do you have children yourself i don't know and it was it was fun insights here
about pregnancy from the film yeah it was it was really interesting to shoot in new york and a lot
of the scenes there were birthing coaches and like there were a lot of babies on set and we did one
scene where um uh we were doing um like birthing yoga and there was a woman there kind of making
sure that the pregnant the real pregnant women were comfortable and i overheard a great moment
where the woman was kind of quietly talking to a couple and and saying you know there's very easy
ways to gently make love during the ninth month of pregnancy and i saw the guy he was just like
i looked over at the woman and she was like are you kidding me who are you talking to nice try
yeah yeah yikes yeah um so the the film opens april 25th let's take a look at a little bit of
this and what are we going to see here this is the moment and i'm living with uh tina's
character and she's trying to uh get me to take a prenatal vitamin prenatal vitamin yeah and they're
they're quite large okay so so getting near this straight now you're actually having i'm here
i'm having yes i'm having tina's characters baby and not tina fey's real right but in the
film yeah you're doing the heavy lifting i'm doing the heavy lifting that's yeah well put
steve steve martin is also yeah and he he's i mean i'm of course a fan how can you know and he uh i
i think i embarrassed myself because he would just say anything and i would laugh really hard
so uh because he's kind of a serious guy right yeah in person so he would say uh
yeah do we break for lunch and i'd like you guys come here steve's doing a bit about life
he's doing a bit no he's not he's that's exactly what he's doing uh amy poehler
nice to see you again amy great job thank you we'll be right back with jason siegel everybody
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