Amy Poehler Explains Why She Won’t Have Martha Stewart On The Podcast
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Amy PoehlerThe “Good Hang” podcast attracts a steady stream of A-list celebrity guests — but Martha Stewart it probably won’t be seen soon.
Poehler, 54, joked during a conversation with colleagues Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer On Tuesday, December 23, the most feared episode is an interview with Stewart, 84, because of age It’s SNL comments mocking Stewart’s mannerisms.
“Martha, I won’t invite you to the show because I’m too scared, but please listen and know that you are something else,” said Poehler when he and Gasteyer, 58, were thinking about how to play Stewart’s role.
While both Poehler and Gasteyer revealed that they were both “obsessed” with the culinary queen, the two, It’s SNL co-stars in the early 2000s, say a steady mouth is the key when imitating Stewart’s presence on camera.
“If we do Martha, what do we do with her lips, and how do we speak?” Poehler asked Gasteyer, who said Stewart “knows exactly how the camera is going to look at him.”
Poehler joked, “A mouth that doesn’t move … we’re going to do Christmas dinner and nothing will move.”
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Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for the Peabody AwardsThe two’s sweet conversation wasn’t the first “Good Hang” interview to feature Stewart, who hosted. Martha Stewart Living of TV in the late 1990s before The Martha Stewart Show it started in 2005 and ran until 2012.
During the July 15 show, which featured a comedian Cole EscolaPoehler and Escola, 39, talked about his love for Stewart, which drew jokes from the two.
“I want to give to the late Martha Stewart,” Escola said. “That’s my dinner party. Her last bite. I’ll get to say, like, you know I served Martha her last meal.”
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Theo Wargo/Getty ImagesPoehler then joked that Stewart’s response would be something like, “Mmm, it’s cold.”
Stewart talked about how others treated him when he appeared in January The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Fallon, 51, addressed the topic, revealing that Stewart has been cast “nine times” It’s SNL with former and current partners including Poehler, Gasteyer, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Rachel Dratch and guest hosts Janeane Garofalo again David Spade.
“He’s my favorite,” Stewart said, pointing to a photo of Spade, 61, from the season It’s SNL. “He was wearing my poncho. A real poncho.”
She also confirmed that she enjoyed watching things come out of her, telling Fallon, “I love you. Acting is the highest form of flattery. You can act.”
Martha Stewart lied in her new Netflix book that the journalist who covered her past legal troubles is dead. “The lady from the New York Post was there, she looked hideous. She wrote horrible things during the whole trial,” recalled Stewart, 83, in Martha, referring to reporter Andrea Peyser. “But he’s dead now, thank you […]
Fallon also asked if Stewart would want to be a guest host on the NBC live show, where he joked that he once raised his hand at the gig despite having a sneaky moment. “I wanted to and they asked me when I got out of Alderson, that camp I was in for a while, and my parole officer didn’t want to give me time to do it,” Stewart told Fallon, who laughed along with his audience. “I was allowed to leave my house for 8 hours a day [the parole officer]. I am very angry. Maybe one day. I can be a miracle.”
Stewart’s Alderson comments refer to his five-month incarceration at Alderson’s Federal Prison Camp that lasted from October 2004 to March 2005. He was incarcerated on charges including conspiracy and obstruction of justice in connection with an insider trading scandal.
