Jon Hamm as soon as saved the day after Amy Poehler acquired some devastating information, simply earlier than she was about to ship her first little one in 2008.
“I was pregnant with my son, Archie, Hamm was the host [of ‘Saturday Night Live’],” Poehler mentioned on the newest episode of her podcast, “Good Hang.”
“I was supposed to deliver the baby on Sunday, so I thought I was going to do the show on Saturday and then deliver the baby the next day, like true psycho,” the comic informed Paul Rudd, who was her visitor on the episode. “Like I just thought like, ‘Well, this makes sense and I’ll have the baby on Sunday.’”
She added, “And I learned my first of many lessons of, like, your kids are on their own schedule and they don’t work with you.”
However she was decided to movie the episode with Hamm, who was internet hosting for the very first time.
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“We rehearsed all day on Friday. I was in nine sketches or something that week,” the “Parks and Recreation” actor mentioned, including that she “was still feeling pretty good” on the time, prepping for the episode.
Issues took a flip when Poehler was capturing a “Mad Men” pre-tape for the present, when she acquired a name that her OB-GYN had abruptly died.
“A wonderful doctor who was in his 80s, who was this incredible doctor. He passed away, and I burst out crying on the phone,” Poehler mentioned. “And when you see a very, very pregnant person hysterically crying, it’s very scary.”
The “Baby Mama” star mentioned the entire crew acquired “really quiet” after which requested her what occurred.
“I come out and ‘Everyone’s like, are you OK?’ And I said, ‘Oh my God, my OB-GYN just died. He just died, passed away of a heart attack last night.’ And it gets really quiet,” she mentioned.
“And Hamm leans in and says to me, ‘This is a really big deal and I need you to get your shit together,’” Poehler mentioned. “This is the first time I’m hosting and I need you to fucking ― it’s big week for me if you can pull it together.”
The “SNL” star mentioned that she went “from crying to laughing so hard” that “squirt tears come out.”
“I start laughing, like clapping and laughing, and it was so fun and funny,” Poehler mentioned.
She added that “he made me laugh so hard” and later went into labor that night time, which she partially attributed to Hamm.
Hamm not too long ago shared the story and admitted that his joke was “a big swing.”
“I said, ‘God, Amy, that’s really terrible, but you really need to pull it together because this is my first time hosting and you better bring it!’” the actor shared throughout an look on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” in February.
Poehler additionally talked about it in her 2014 e book, referred to as “Yes Please.”
“I laughed so hard, I probably peed myself,” she wrote. “I believe that going through crying to laughing adds like five years to your life.”
