{"id":48822,"date":"2022-12-19T07:04:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=48822"},"modified":"2022-12-19T07:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:28:22","slug":"amy-poehler-joins-national-comedy-center-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/amy-poehler-joins-national-comedy-center-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Poehler Joins National Comedy Center Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_48823\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Amy-Poehler-Journey-Gunderson.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48823\" data-attachment-id=\"48823\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/amy-poehler-joins-national-comedy-center-board-of-directors\/amy-poehler-journey-gunderson\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Amy-Poehler-Journey-Gunderson.png?fit=873%2C487&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"873,487\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Amy Poehler Journey Gunderson\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Amy Poehler and National Comedy Center Executive Director Journey Gunderson&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Amy-Poehler-Journey-Gunderson.png?fit=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Amy-Poehler-Journey-Gunderson.png?fit=873%2C487&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-48823\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Amy-Poehler-Journey-Gunderson.png?resize=375%2C209&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Amy-Poehler-Journey-Gunderson.png?w=873&amp;ssl=1 873w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Amy-Poehler-Journey-Gunderson.png?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Amy-Poehler-Journey-Gunderson.png?resize=768%2C428&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Poehler and National Comedy Center Executive Director Journey Gunderson<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Amy Poehler<\/strong> has joined the <strong>National Comedy Center&#8217;s Board of Directors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>With a wide-ranging comedy career that spans improv, sketch, situation comedy and feature films, the Emmy Award-winning Poehler has been acclaimed for her eight years as a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live, as lead actor, producer and writer on Parks and Recreation, and most recently, as a feature film director\/producer and television producer.<\/p>\n<p>Poehler said she&#8217;s honored to be joining the advisory board, &#8220;In my time spent at the National Comedy Center, working closely with its executive director <strong>Journey Gunderson<\/strong>, Director of Archives Dr. <strong>Laura LaPlaca<\/strong> and their teams, it\u2019s clear that this is an incredible organization and a very special place. Every visit is a mind-blowing experience for me \u2013 it\u2019s become my favorite museum of all time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amy Poehler fills the Advisory Board seat formerly held by talent manager and producer <strong>George Shapiro<\/strong>, who passed away earlier this year after a seven-decade career managing comedic artists including <strong>Jerry Seinfeld<\/strong>, <strong>Andy Kaufman<\/strong> and <strong>Carl Reiner<\/strong> and serving as an executive producer of Seinfeld.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Poehler worked closely with the National Comedy Center\u2019s Archives and Preservation Department on research for her critically-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning Amazon documentary Lucy and Desi, which she directed and also executive produced alongside Imagine Documentaries and White Horse Pictures. Poehler hosted a premiere of the film in Jamestown at the National Comedy Center before it made its nationwide debut on Prime Video earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Poehler has joined the National Comedy Center&#8217;s Board of Directors. With a wide-ranging comedy career that spans improv, sketch, situation comedy and feature films, the Emmy Award-winning Poehler has been acclaimed for her eight years as a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live, as lead actor, producer and writer on Parks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":48823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[12622,12626,9249,12625,4748,1310,12624,3796,12623],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Amy-Poehler-Journey-Gunderson.png?fit=873%2C487&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-cHs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53852,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/political-satirist-buffalo-native-mark-russell-celebrated-at-national-comedy-center\/","url_meta":{"origin":48822,"position":0},"title":"Political Satirist, Buffalo Native Mark Russell Celebrated at National Comedy Center","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"August 18, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Political Satirist Mark Russell was celebrated at the National Comedy Center Thursday night. 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