Jon Hamm once saved the day after Amy Poehler got some devastating news, just before she was about to deliver her first child in 2008.
“I was pregnant with my son, Archie, Hamm was the host [of ‘Saturday Night Live’],” Poehler said on the latest 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 comedian told Paul Rudd, who was her guest 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.”
But she was determined to film the episode with Hamm, who was 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 said, adding that she “was still feeling pretty good” at the time, prepping for the episode.
Things took a turn when Poehler was shooting a “Mad Men” pre-tape for the show, when she got a call that her OB-GYN had suddenly 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 said. “And when you see a very, very pregnant person hysterically crying, it’s very scary.”
The “Baby Mama” star said the whole crew got “really quiet” and then asked her what happened.
“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 said.
“And Hamm leans in and says to me, ‘This is a really big deal and I need you to get your shit together,’” Poehler said. “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 said 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 said.
She added that “he made me laugh so hard” and later went into labor that night, which she partially attributed to Hamm.
Hamm recently 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 during an appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” in February.
Poehler also mentioned it in her 2014 book, called “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.”
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