-My first guest tonight is
an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor.
She directed and stars in the new movie "Moxie,"
which is streaming now on Netflix.
You have to watch it. It is so good.
Here is Amy Poehler!
Ah, that's what I'm talking about.
See? Ah, I missed you, buddy. So good to see you.
-Hi! Hi, Jimmy. I'm so happy to be here.
-I want to get into "Moxie"
and what a great job you did directing that.
But it was so great to see you hosting the Golden Globes.
You were fantastic. You were so funny.
You looked great.
But I know, from hosting these awards shows,
it is a lot of work.
I can't imagine what it was like hosting one during a pandemic.
-Yeah, you know what it's like.
There's a lot of things that can go wrong.
And I had -- It was interesting,
'cause I had, like, new stress dreams.
You know, usually, your dreams are that
you're going to, you know, say the wrong thing
or you're gonna, you know, fall.
But I kept having these, like, technological stress dreams
that, you know, was just going to disappear.
Just like bloop!
-Like, bad edit-- Like, the audio going out or something
or people cutting to the wrong camera?
-Mm! All those.
Like, basically like a living Zoom nightmare
is what I was having.
-But it was kind of -- It was like a Kubrick film,
because every -- The audience was masked and quiet
and spread out and just kind of staring at us.
-Wowsers.
It's a lot, a lot, a lot of work.
And, man, I can't --
On behalf of everyone who saw it, thank you so much.
Like a lot of people during this past year,
I've heard that you've gotten into TikTok.
Is that right? -Yeah. Big-time.
-Whoa! -Big Tok.
-Talk to me. -Big-time.
-Really?
-Well, you know what I do like about it a lot?
Is that I like that it takes an idea, audio,
and it kind of -- You know, like,
people just decide how they're going to deconstruct something.
And so I like that, you know,
a joke just keeps getting done
and then change into something else
or the pastiche of it all.
Someone takes someone's audio and someone's video
and then comments.
-It just, like -- It feels very D.I.Y.
And then, speaking of the Golden Globes,
I saw La'Ron Hines, the great, sweet La'Ron Hines,
who is, like, a TikTok star, dare I say.
And he interviews kids at his mom's daycare in Mississippi.
And we ended up having him on the Golden Globes.
-Isn't that cool?
That's amazing that you -- I loved that part.
That was great. That's wild. -Yeah. Thank you.
-I did -- I'm doing more TikToks.
But I did my first one,
and I want to say it took me like three hours to do.
I go...
-Yeah, I don't do any. I don't do any.
I don't. I don't add any value to TikTok.
I just watch it and go, "Good for him.
She's right." -Right?
That's good. You got to love it.
-I'm like, "Oh, that's what that button does."
Stuff like that.
That's what TikTok helps me with.
"Oh, that's how I can clean my sink."
-Yeah! That's what I -- Dude, I love the hacks.
-Show me a better way to fold my chip bag,
and you got me for life.
-Dude, what's this thing about frying cheese?
I never knew that you -- If you fry cheese, like, really thin,
you can use that as kind of like the bread almost.
-Oh, boy, that's gonna -- -No, it's insane.
I've already -- I was just watching it.
-What if I just -- I immediately ran out of frame,
and you started -- You heard the sizzling sound of cheese.
-Look, I know you as a great comedian, a writer, an actor.
And I know you directed,
but now you directed your second movie, "Moxie."
It is on Netflix now. It is fantastic.
And I just want to say I love it,
because I have two girls now.
And I don't know -- I'm also a coming-of-age-movie fan.
But I don't know if there is a movie
that's kind of like this movie,
that's for girls, where -- It's for everybody,
I mean, but I feel like there's nothing out there
for my girls to watch where they go like,
"Oh, yeah, that's an awesome message."
That is so cool. I just loved it.
I thought it was well-done, top to bottom.
-Thank you very much.
I mean, we grew up with the same movies, right?
So, I always loved those high-school movies that had,
you know, kind of the quiet female protagonist,
like Molly Ringwald, if you will,
who was watching the action
and trying to figure out how to participate in it.
And, you know, the book that it was based on is, you know,
written by a high-school teacher.
And we really wanted it to feel like
what high school feels like -- high stakes, big feelings.
-It really is high stakes.
I mean, when you're --
especially when you're in high school.
It's like, you don't -- Now we're older,
I don't think about that, but you're like,
"Oh, no, no, this is the biggest thing in the world."
-Oh, big-time.
I mean I have a feeling you and I
had very similar high-school experiences.
I mean, I don't know about you,
but I had a big high school, lots of different groups.
-Yeah.
-You really had to kind of declare who you were.
There was a lot of lists.
Like, a lot of superlatives --
like, inappropriate superlatives.
-Yeah, I'm trying to think of what I can even say anymore.
But yeah. -I know, you can't.
Like, I know we had, like, Class Flirt
and Best Couple and Best Eyes and Cutest.
And it was like, "God!
Why don't you just put Nice Rack on there and call it a day."
[ Both laugh ]
-That's what I won!
-You got Nice Rack?! -Yeah, in high school.
That was me. -Congratulations!
-Thank you. I was excited.
I'll take what I can get, though.
-You had a really nice rack on your car,
on the top of your car?
-Like, horns and stuff.
It wasn't real animal, of course.
-Yeah, it was a nice rack. It should win.
-Can you tell everyone what "Moxie" is about?
-Sure. So, it's -- "Moxie" is about a 16-year-old girl
who is trying to figure out how she fits into her high school.
She has a mom who is a more extroverted, rebel-girl past.
And she doesn't know how to speak up
and speak out against the things that are bothering her
and that are dangerous in her school.
So she gets inspired by a zine and she makes one
and she leaves it in her school.
And it's taken over by the other women in the school.
And together, they try to bring the system down.
-I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Amy Poehler in her new movie, "Moxie."
Take a look at this.
-Me and my friends, we protested everything.
One time, someone told our friend Sarah
that she smelled, and none of us showered for two weeks.
[ Both laugh ]
Yeah.
-But how do you know what to do,
like, how to protest something?
-We didn't.
You know, we made a ton of mistakes.
We argued with each other.
We weren't intersectional enough.
We called our meetings pow-wows.
-Oh, no. -Mm-hmm.
-But you're glad you did it all, right?
-Of course.
What are you going to do? Nothing?
-Amy Poehler, everybody!
"Moxie" is streaming now on Netflix.
By the way, congrats on it being
the number-1 movie on Netflix, bud.
That's the way to do it. -How cool?
-That is the way to do it, Amy Poehler!