I said, ‘What’s wrong?’ and she said, ‘Oh, he passed away last night.’ I did the sketch, I was shooting with Hamm on Friday, and I called my doctor ‘cause at the end there you kind of have to call in every day, and the receptionist was crying. G, ‘I’m gonna do the show and I’ll come in Sunday, and maybe we’ll do it Sunday/Monday.’ And it was an example of the beginning of what children do to you, which is they fuck up all your plans. And I had, my plan was that I was gonna do the Jon Hamm show and I was due the next day. Jon Hamm was hosting Saturday Night Live, his first time, and I was just getting to know him, and we were doing a sketch, a Mad Men sketch, I was dressed in an old-timey way, in a big dress, and I was huge. And my kids’ dad and I – Will – used to joke that, like, ‘Is he too old?’” He … was pretty old.

G was a old Italian physician who famously delivered Sophia Loren’s children, so he was quite old. Poehler tells the crazy story of how her doctor died the day before she was supposed to deliver her first son. Including “please don’t make it last so long, we’re really tired.”Īnd maybe some material about how to pick an ob-gyn. Plus a chapter called “My Phone Is Trying to Kill Me,” about the perils of social media.

“But I do write about, going through something, you get such a perspective, and one of the things I write about is … the books I would now like to write about divorce.”Ĭhapters in the book include “Get Over It, She Doesn’t Cry Enough, He Seems Gay to Me,” and “Don’t Worry, I Don’t Want to Fuck Your Husband” “I don’t really talk about it because I have a real respect for my ex-husband and the father of my children, and I also don’t like people knowing my shit,” Poehler says. (Photo by Steve Sands/WireImage)Īt this weekend’s BookCon festivities at the Javits Center, Amy Poehler revealed some details about her upcoming memoir Yes Please, plus some fond reflections of the ways only Jon Hamm can comfort a pregnant woman. Javits Convention Center on in New York City. NEW YORK, NY - MAY 31: Amy Poehler attends day 3 of the 2014 Bookexpo America at The Jacob K.

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