Poehler frequently collaborated with Tina Fey on SNL and later acted with her in the feature films Mean Girls, Baby Mama, Sisters, and Wine Country. Outside of SNL and Parks and Recreation, Poehler is an executive producer on the television series Welcome to Sweden, Broad City, Difficult People, Duncanville, Three Busy Debras, and Russian Doll. Along with other members of the comedy group, Poehler is a founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The group moved to New York City in 1996, where their act became a half-hour sketch-comedy series on Comedy Central in 1998. Poehler left SNL halfway through her eighth season in 2008 to star as Leslie Knope in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, which she produced and starred in from 2009 to 2015.Īfter studying improv at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, Poehler co-founded the improvisational-comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade. From 2004 until her departure, she served as co-anchor of the show's news parody segment, Weekend Update.

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