Amy Poehler
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But then I just had that idea of this kind of based on that, like, a Debbie Downer popped into my head.
And then, which this is kind of just talking creativity.
I found at SNL, you couldn't just go in there and, like, okay, let's think of a scene.
Like, it had to be, like, moments like that.
And to me, that only happened, like, once or twice a year, which is why, like, you might sit there at home and be like—
Why isn't there, like, SNL, man?
But it's, like, thinking of really original characters that kind of, like, hit on something.
It's not something you can, like, steer the ship on.
Like, to me, like, it has to, like—
vibe out with you I don't know yes you have to be like you have to to your point you have to like keep the channel open and be like find the muse and like let it find you it just can't be like turned out exactly and how but then so then I then I took it to Paula Pell who we wrote with often and is hilarious and everyone knows Paula now because I love Paula's like out there more in front of the camera but um but anyway and then we were on writing night we were trying to write and we set it in an office and it just kind of wasn't really flowing we it just wasn't really jiving and then
We're like, maybe we need to put her somewhere really happy.
So then we thought of Disney World, of course, happiest place on earth.
And then, and then while we were writing it, like when we were like, of course, Paula was cracking me up with these one liners and everything.
And then we started just going like, like just for ourselves.
And then we're like, what if we put that in the scene?
With the actual trombone sound.
So then for read-through, we had, I don't remember if we had, like, the live person or someone just had done it.
But then at read-through, like, it killed.