Good Hang with Amy Poehler - Anne Lamott

For Anne Lamott, it goes Jesus, the cat, and then everyone else. Amy hangs with the 'Bird by Bird' author and talks about how she deals with bad reviews, binging on 'Below Deck' and People magazine, and dating someone who's allergic to cats. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Tina Fey and Anne LamottExecutive producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; social producer Bridget Geerlings; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and bookers Kat Spillane and Paige GarbariniOriginal music: Amy Miles Check Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds: https://Allstate.com Switch today at https://visible.com for just 25/mo. Or get premium Visible+ pro plan and save $10 on your first month with code HANG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 1h 11m
Broadcast on: 28 Jul 2026
Audio Format: other

Host: Amy Poehler
Guests: Tina Fey and Anne Lamott
Executive producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-Berman
For Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel Lovell
For The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; social producer Bridget Geerlings; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and bookers Kat Spillane and Paige Garbarini
Original music: Amy Miles

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Hi. Hi. Hi. Betty, thank you for coming on again. You are an official friend of the pod. You've been on now, I think 14, 15 times. I love it. I want the one time I came on and remember, I was all dressed up like a Gwyneth Paltrow and nobody, nobody caught on that. That was me. Oh, you were so good. I just do a really good Gwyneth Paltrow impression.

Your hair looks incredible. Thank you. Is this a blowout? This is a blowout. There's a lot of breakage, but we're just going to press through. We're going to press through. Are you at a point now where you're getting a blowout, even if you're not working? For my own sanity, sometimes I go like once a week, like a 1950s lady, also because of thought of walking around my apartment with wet hair, I can't take it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because I can't do hair. This is like something Anne might write about because it's an exercise in hope and faith. And every time I air dry my hair, I believe it's going to come out better. And it never does. Actually, Anne Lamont, who, you know, is an amazing writer, she's written fiction. She's written memoir. She's written, she's like an essayist. She's self revealing. She's written in all different genres that I want to talk to her about today. She has also written about hair and like her hair, her body, like coming to terms with our like physical selves. And she's really funny about it, like how she tries to reconcile like we all do like her physical parts. That was so interesting when you were talking to Carol Burnett too about, you know, how old do you feel? She's like, I feel 11. Didn't she say 11? 11. Yeah. And I get that. We do forget. There are times when you absolutely feel that way and you just and you absolutely forget about the carcass that you're in and how long it's been around. I asked you to do this first part because you and I have talked about Anne Lamont and how much we like her and like her writing. And I think there will be people listening to this pod today that will be diehard fans of hers and then people that might be discovering her work for the first time. If you were to talk to somebody who had never read her,

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