āAmy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writersā room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through to start. [ā¦] Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke. I canāt remember what it was exactly, except it was dirty and oud and āunladylikeā,Ā
Jimmy Fallon [ā¦] turned to her and in a faux-squeamish voice said, āStop that! Itās not cute! I donāt like it.ā
Amy dropped what she was doing, went black in the eyes for a second, and wheeled around on him. āI donāt fucking care if you like it.ā Jimmy was visibly startled. Amy went right back to enjoying her ridiculous bit.
With that exchange, a cosmic shift took place. Amy made it clear that she wasnāt there to be cute. She wasnāt there to play wives and girlfriends in the boysā scenes. She was there to do what she wanted to do and she did not fucking care if you like it.ā