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Amy Poehler/Jane Lynch event video on Bio.com home page…
We’re thrilled to have the video from our event with Amy Poehler and Jane Lynch featured on the home page of the Biography Channel’s website. The Biography Channel is a major sponsor of Live Talks Los Angeles and a content partner where we exclusively release the videos from some of our events….Here’s a link to the video.
Here’s a link to the Live Talks Los Angeles page on the Bio website where you can see more of our videos.
Video from our event with Amy Poehler & Jane Lynch is up at the Biography Channel website. Enjoy, share…
Video from our hilarious evening with Amy Poehler in conversation with Jane Lynch at The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica is now available exclusively on Bio.com, the Biography Channel’s website. Biography is a sponsor of Live Talks Los Angeles.
Watch the video here.
Some questions with Jane Lynch…Lynch interviews Amy Poehler Feb 12 at Live Talks Los Angeles @janemarielynch
We’re very much looking forward to our event with Jane Lynch interviewing Amy Poehler on Sunday, February 12 at The Aero Theatre. Event info here. We featured Lynch in conversation with Adam Scott last October when her memoir, Happy Accidents, came out. Hilarious evening. Here’s the video. The image to the left is the poster from the event.
Our event with Amy Poehler and Jane Lynch supports the Adopt the Arts Foundation who’s mission is to bring together well-known artists, public figures, business, and the general public to save the arts in America’s public schools. Adopt the Arts is raising money to keep arts education in public schools in Los Angeles.
We caught up with Jane Lynch to answer some questions…
You recently did a PSA for arts in schools. How did you get involved with supporting arts in schools? What was the arts program like when you were in school?
My daughter goes to a public school in LA and we have a very active parent’s organization to raise the funds needed for art and music programs which the state no longer pays for. Not every public school is able to raise the money so Matt Sorum (Guns and Roses) and others asked me to join a brand new organization called Adopt the Arts to fund these programs to other public schools in LA. My refuge in high school was the hour I spent every day in choir.
What was your favorite TV show when you were in highschool?
My favorite TV show in high school was The Brady Bunch which was actually in re-runs at that time.
What’s your favorite of the Oscar nominated movies?
The Artist, The Iron Lady
What’s a day of relaxation like in Lynch/Embry household?
Playing with our dogs and eating Lara’s fabulous cooking!
Favorite fiction author of all time?
John Irving
What are a couple books you’ve recently read that you really liked?
Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller
The Paleo Solution, Robb WolfWhat book are you looking forward to read?
Geting back to and finishing Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs book which I started over Xmas.
If you could travel back in time to meet any famous person, who would you choose?
Greta Garbo
Abraham Lincoln
Carole King circa 1970
Theodore Roosevelt
Benjamin FranklinWhich five notable people from history do you think could work together to achieve world peace?
I don’t think any one from the past present or future including Jesus Christ, the Buddha or Ghandi, can make a place peaceful if the people are determined to fight and defend and see “other” and the enemy.
February 12 — Amy Poehler in conversation with Jane Lynch
Sunday, February 12, 2012
7:30 pm (Reception 6:00-7:00pm)
Amy Poehler
in conversation with Jane Lynch
PURCHASE TICKETS ($25-$115)
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue (at 14th Street)
Santa Monica, CA
Amy Poehler currently stars on the critically acclaimed NBC comedy series, “Parks and Recreation,” from producers Greg Daniels and Mike Schur (“The Office.”) She plays Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana. The show recently received its first Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Comedy Series” and Poehler received her second consecutive “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series” nomination. She also serves as producer and host of the online series, “Smart Girls at the Party,” that showcases real girls who are changing the world by being themselves.
Poehler completed her eighth and final season of “Saturday Night Live” (and her fifth as the co-anchor of “Weekend Update”) in 2008. Renowned as “a brilliantly inventive sketch comedian,” (Entertainment Weekly, 11/05), Poehler boasted an impressive arsenal of outrageous characters, from the hyperactive “Caitlin” and one-legged reality show contestant “Amber” to a manic host of “Good Morning Meth.” Poehler also contributed memorable impressions of Hillary Clinton, Kelly Ripa, Avril Lavigne, Sharon Osbourne, Paula Abdul, Sharon Stone and Michael Jackson. That year she received her first Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series” for her work on “Saturday Night Live”.
Poehler’s movie credits include: Baby Mama, Mean Girls, Spring Breakdown, Mr. Woodcock, Southland Tales, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, The Ex, Wet Hot American Summer, and Envy. She was the voice of “Eleanor” in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. She previously lent her voice to the animated films Monsters vs. Aliens and Horton Hears a Who! with Jim Carrey and Steve Carrell and starred in the ice-skating comedy Blades of Glory, alongside Will Ferrell, Will Arnett, and Jon Heder and was “Snow White” in the box office smash hit Shrek the Third.
Poehler joined the SNL cast from the Upright Citizens Brigade, a sketch/improv troupe originally formed in Chicago. Poehler and the U.C.B. relocated to New York where they had a sketch show on Comedy Central for three seasons on which she was both a writer and performer. In addition, they opened a theater currently regarded as the premiere sketch/improv comedy venue in New York City. Poehler and the U.C.B. were featured in “A.S.S.S.S.C.A.T.: Improv” an improvised comedy special on Bravo.
Poehler has made memorable appearances on television ranging from Late Night with Conan O’Brien (as recurring character “Stacey,” Andy Richter’s little sister), Arrested Development, Wonder Showzen and Undeclared. She also was a voice on O’Grady and The Simpsons.
Jane Lynch gained fame in Christopher Guest’s improv mocumentary pictures (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) and currently stars in the role of Sue Sylvester in Glee for which she has won both an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, and recurring role in the hit television series Two and a Half Men. She has also had notable roles in numerous mainstream comedies, such as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Role Models. She hosted the 2011 Emmy Awards.
Her memoir, Happy Accidents, is one part comic-memoir of behind-the-scenes-Hollywood and one part inspirational-narrative about self-acceptance. Though Lynch is one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood today, she is anything but an overnight success. At age 50, she didn’t come into her own until the last decade. Before she landed her role in Glee, she’d battled alcoholism and anxiety, learned to embrace her sexuality, and accepted that life is sometimes a series of opportunities that come after what seem, at the time, like disappointments. She shares her personal story in her funny, poignant and brutally honest memoir.
Live Talks Los Angeles featured her on Oct 2, 2011 in conversation with Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation). The video from that event can be seen here.
$25 Live Talks Los Angeles with Amy Poehler in conversation with Jane Lynch, 7:30 pm (doors open at 7:00pm)
$45 also includes Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America, by Leslie Knope (Poehler’s character on Parks and Recreation)
$115 includes pre-event reception (6:00-7:00pm), plus Pawnee and Lynch’s memoir, Happy Accidents
$25 Purchase signed copy of Pawnee (tax and shipping included to anywhere in the US)
Proceeds from this event support the Adopt the Arts Foundation who’s mission is to bring together well-known artists, public figures, business, and the general public to save the arts in America’s public schools. Adopt the Arts is raising money to keep arts education in public schools in Los Angeles. Adopt the Arts has chosen Rosewood Avenue Elementary as it’s pilot school. Adopt the Arts works directly with the principal, the booster club, and the arts education branch of LAUSD to ensure that all students are exposed to all the arts disciplines, i.e, music, dance, theater, and visual arts. Adopt the Arts Foundation is dedicated to improving the academic performance of every child through the gift of making art and music. To learn more, visit their website.