I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.
Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.
In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?
There's a couple of enemies to improv, and one of them is editing; when you edit on TV it makes it seem like it's not really improv.
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Amy would like to do more work behind the camera, wanting to produce and direct as her next step in the business.
Amy and Tina Fey are close friends off the screen as well as having worked together in a number of projects together.
Amy cites her comedic influences as being: Lily Tomlin, Gilda Radner, and Lucille Ball, all great performers of Improv humor.
Amy is a co-owner of the 'Upright Citizen's Crigade Theatre' in New York, and frequently performs Long Form Improv there on Sunday evenings.
Amy appeared on Comedy Central's Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Benefit for Autism Education, on October 15, 2006.
Amy starred in both Mean Girls and Envy, which opened on the same day in 2004.
On SNL, Amy is famous for her many hilarious impressions of celebrities such as Kelly Ripa, Madonna, Avril Lavigne, Julia Roberts, and Sharon Osbourne.
Amy is the daughter of Bill and Eileen Poehler.
Amy's nicknames are Cool Cat Amy and Crazy Amy.
In 1993 she moved to Chicago where she studied at the Second City and Improv Olympics along with fellow Alumni: Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Ossie Beck, Adam McKay, and the late Chris Farley.
Amy has been married to Arrested Development star Will Arnett since August 29, 2003.
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