Amy Poehler recently took responsibility for her problematic characters of “Saturday Night Live” while speaking to the old actor Will Forte on his podcast “Good Hang”. Poehler said that each actor who appeared on “SNL” over the years “played people we shouldn’t have played” and “the role of aging and being in comedy is that you have to understand:” Oh, it is as if everything had an expiration date “.
“There was even on [‘SNL50’]When they had this segment that was like, “here are all the ways we were wrong”, and they showed a very inappropriate cast for people, “added Poehler.” We all played people that we shouldn’t have played. I diverted, I appropriated myself … I did not know. »»
Poehler referred to the “SNL50” sketch in which Tom Hanks introduced an in Memoriam segment calling for the many problematic jokes and “SNL” sketches distributed. The montage of badly aged bits includes jokes on sexual harassment and infamous moments such as Adrien Brody sporting dreadlocks and a Jamaican accent.
“Even if these characters, accents and … let’s simply call them the ethnic” wigs “were undoubtedly in a bad taste, you all laugh,” Tom Hanks told a closing moment to the public. “So if someone should be canceled, shouldn’t he be Youthe public? Something to think.
Addressing strong on his podcast, Poehler added: “The best thing you can do is make repairs, learn from your mistakes, do better. That’s all you can do.”
Look at the complete Poehler and strong conversation in the video below.
