“People’s interaction with government is usually not on a macro level. It’s not a presidential election. It’s going to the DMV, it’s figuring out who’s going to open up a park in their town, or who do I complain to about my curbs being too high … The show has changed, but people watch our show and they think it’s a red-state show, and other people watch our show and they think it’s a blue-state show. I think there’s something fun about [how] the politics of the show aren’t very clear.”
– Actress and comedian Amy Poehler, talking on NPR’s “Morning Edition” about her attraction to playing political figures on TV. She had audiences in stitches playing Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live in 2008, and has since been on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” where her character, Leslie Knope, is running for City Council in the show’s fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana — a role she says most people can relate to better than her Clinton character. Poehler isn’t the only celeb playing at politics on TV, though. “Glee” star Jane Lynch is starting the show’s third season with her character, Sue Sylvester, making a run for Congress.
(h/t NPR)
