NBC Orders Pilots From Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones

Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones, who both starred on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, are returning to the network with two new comedies. According to the Hollywood Reporter, NBC has ordered pilots for two shows executively produced by both women.
Non-Social Media Users Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Cover Glamour's 'Social' Issue
Glamour’s January cover features besties and stars of the forthcoming movie Sisters, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. It’s also an issue devoted to “social”—also known as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and all those other platforms the cover stars don’t actually use.
Let Amy Poehler Inspire You With Her Cover of 'The Rose'
It’s no secret that Amy Poehler loves to sing, but the comedian really took her game up a notch over the weekend when she performed Bette Midler’s “The Rose” at Festival Supreme, giving the torch song her all in sunglasses, a coat straight from Janis Joplin’s closet, and a cigarette dangling from her fingers.
SNL Writer Paula Pell Is Developing a New Comedy for HBO
Paula Pell, the woman behind some of your favorite Saturday Night Live sketches, is creating a new half-hour comedy series for HBO. The as-yet-to-be-titled series will be about a “fallen Olympic figure skater who returns home to Massachusetts to confront her former bullish coach and narcissistic mother who have cashed…
Amy Poehler Has Advice for Fame-Hungry Comedians
At the Upright Citizen Brigade’s Del Close 17th Annual Marathon, Amy Poehler offered some wise words for comedians who aspire to make it big in the entertainment business. “If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends … if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding,” Poehler said. “If the goal is to be…
The Women of Pawnee Ruled Parks & Recreation 'Til the Very End
Leslie Knope left our televisions forever last night. She rode figuratively into the sunset with Parks & Recreation, ending its seven season run, and a little bit of us went with her—the exact parts of us that utilized and relished our lives watching religiously for the past six years. Those years are gone and I can…
Madeleine Albright Loved Her Waffle Date With Leslie Knope
In its final season, Parks & Recreation is really going for it—taking its humor and political heart as far as they both can stretch. Last night's double-header was one for the ages: in the first episode, "Mrs. Ludgate-Dwyer Goes to Washington," Leslie and April travel to DC to get some support for Leslie's…
Garbagehead Doo-Doo Face: The Evolution of Parks & Rec's Leslie Knope
Within the first five minutes of "2017," the premiere of the seventh and final season of NBC's Parks and Recreation, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) has already called someone a, "stupid garbagehead doo-doo face." Hyperbole is Knope's bellwether; the gesture is a marked indicator that the writers of Parks and Rec fully…
Jessica Chastain Explains Her Bill Cosby Golden Globes Reaction Face
Not that it really needed extrapolation, but on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night, Jessica Chastain briefly explained what she was thinking in the now-infamous shot of the audience at the Golden Globes reacting to Amy Poehler and Tina Fey's Bill Cosby joke.

