-So, Amy, you directed "Wine Country".
That was with your closest "SNL" friends, outside of yours truly.
But I'm wondering what the experience was like
working with this young, talented cast --
I'll show it again -- and your old friends.
-Oh, look at those cuties.
Well, I really, really had great experiences on both.
I think with "Wine Country," it was a little more sisterly.
And I would guess maybe in this film, "Moxie,"
I perhaps was a little bit more maternal.
But I don't know. "Moxie," it's more dramatic.
And it kind of deals with some deeper issues,
so there was a lot of sensitive subject matter
and very thoughtful --
very thoughtful preparation and discussions from the cast.
In "Wine Country," I don't think anyone even read the script.
[ Laughter ]
-Now, did they admit to you,
or would it be, over the course of the day, it would
slowly dawn on you that none of them had read the script?
-Realize...
You know, an actress would come up and go,
"Oh, so we're supposed to be friends?"
[ Laughter ]
-Speaking of working with friends, you and Am--
Excuse me. You and Tina are hosting the Golden Globes.
How's prep for the Globes going?
-So good, Seth. The prep is going so good.
We just have a few final questions,
which is, when, how, why, where, and what.
-Great.
-Just those -- That's all we need to find out.
But we're going to figure it out.
-I think it will be a tonic for all of us to see the two of you
in whatever arena it ends up being.
I'm looking forward to it.
I know you use time like this
where a lot of people are watching television
because you can't go out as much
to catch up on the latest in television.
-Yeah. -The most groundbreaking --
The TV, the films of today.
What have you been watching the most?
-Well, I've been watching this amazing new show.
I cannot recommend it highly enough. Which is "E.R."
And I've been watching it from top to bottom.
This is my third time through in my lifetime,
but this is -- and I can't --
I can't stop watching "E.R."
So now I'm into, like, the Wiki fandom of all the characters.
And I'm spending all my time just Googling, like,
"What happened to the surgeon in season one?"
"Why did William H. Macy not stay on 'E.R.'?"
"Was Eriq La Salle and Noah Wyle actual friends?"
Like, I'm just so deep.
And, Seth, you know, people like to talk about the cool things
that are on Netflix or on HBO, and that's great.
But Dr. Carter's journey...
is so good.
And at one point, he's saving people in the Congo.
This show is so good.
-I'm glad you're giving Noah Wyle his credit.
Because Clooney obviously, Doug Ross, was everything.
-Clooney's the obvious reason why you --
You go for Clooney. You stay for Noah Wyle.
[ Laughter ]
-Has Clooney's -- Has Clooney's performance held up for you?
-I did have a moment recently in --
I don't know what month it was -- where I realized
I was maybe too lonely
and had been quarantining too hard.
Because it was the middle of the day, and I was in my pajamas,
and I was watching, like -- I don't know --
re-watching season three, episode ten,
where Clooney saves a kid that's stuck in a water pipe
and he lifts him up out of the water.
And I stood up and pointed at the TV, and I said,
"And that's when he became a star!"
[ Laughter ]
No one was home. -You weren't wrong.
-No. No. That was it.
But, you know, I'm at a point now, Seth,
where, look, we're very lucky.
We have fancy friends.
Sometimes -- I know you have a lot of fancy friends.
And you are my fancy friend.
But I have a friend who kind of --
you know, who knows Julianna Margulies.
And I texted him, and I was like --
You know, I was trying to set some intentions
for things so that I can look forward to doing things
once this lockdown is over.
"Is there any way, maybe in the summer or in the fall, when --
you know, when things get less stressful and scary,
that I could meet Julianna Margulies
at a restaurant?
And ask her a list of questions
I have about Nurse Carol Hathaway,
her character that she played on 'E.R.' 20 years ago?"
And the friend was like, "You know, um, I'll ask her."
[ Laughter ]
So I have -- I just want her to know
that I have a hard 50 questions waiting for her.
-I -- Look, I'm going to make sure the next time she's here
I lock down that date for you.
-Oh. That would be amazing. That would --
Do you -- Have you ever watched "E.R."?
'Cause you're acting like you haven't.
-Amy, they weren't lying when they called it Must See TV.
-100%. 100%.
When I was shooting "Wet Hot American Summer,"
a little gem that we shot, like, 1999 --
before there were cellphones, folks --
they used to have these, like, TVs
that you could wear around your neck.
And it was the episode when Carol Hathaway went --
Julianna Margulies went back to Clooney,
and somebody was watching it on TV, running around, crying.
Like, "She went back to Clooney!"
I mean, those were the days.
-I remember --
I recently watched just the last -- her last episode.
Was that --- Is that the one you're talking about
where you see Clooney at the waterside?
-Yes, when she flies to Seattle.
She's like, "I have twins. What am I doing?
I mean, I love Luka, but he's not for me.
He's going to find..."
-Preaching to the choir.
[ Laughter ]
Well, I feel like we've done a good job plugging a lot of
mid-to-late-'90s work that took place in Chicago.
-Yeah.
-"E.R.," "The Matrix," and Amy Poehler.
-I mean, when you --
when you think of me, you think of, like,
what's next, what's new.
-What's the next big thing?
I want to finish by saying thank you for being here
and also that the third season of "Making It" --
I love you, Amy -- premieres later this year on NBC.
And Amy's film "Moxie"...
-Bye. I'll see you at home.
-[ Laughs ]
...releases on Netflix March 3rd.