“I love you.” “I want to be like you.” “You’re awesome,” is how nearly every woman prefaced their question (and it was mainly women doing the asking) for Amy Poehler’s conversation with Ariel Levy this past weekend at the New Yorker Festival.

Poehler is smart, funny, warm, confident, and knows what she wants. The child of two public school teachers, Poehler grew up loving school and was a self-proclaimed “good kid.” It might sound like I’m describing your best friend, your sister, or even you — and perhaps that’s the best part of Amy Poehler. What sets her apart from the rest of us is one thing: her main goal is to make us laugh.

“Now here is a couple of seconds for you to resent me,” says Craig Rowin, a New York comedian, in a new video online. The reason he’s predicting resentment? A couple months ago, he made a video that simply featured him asking any millionaires out there if they’d please give him a million dollars. The video went viral and, now, it looks like he might actually get his wish! Yeah, I know, I know. We all should have thought of it first.

We here at Mediaite usually try to refrain from just throwing up videos we like without comment, but sometimes funny is just funny and the following video by some of the geniuses at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre is absolutely hilarious. The video depicts a meeting at the British Petroleum offices that goes a bit awry when a cup of coffee is spilled on the desk. The team quickly tries to figure out what to do and…well, just watch it.

“All comedians who care about comedy love and respect Conan,” says Matt Besser, co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade, a staple of the comedy community. But why?

Exclusive! Here is another scene from “Ronna & Beverly,” a pilot made for Showtime earlier this year that got a last-ditch airdate — which creators Jessica Chaffin & Jamie Denbo turned into a chance to catalyze a veritable movement to get it seen (and, hopefully, loved). According to IMDb, it’s up 628% in popularity over [...]

So! “Ronna & Beverly” aired last night. Did you watch? Did anyone? Did the army of Twitter followers of comedy tastemakers like Rainn Wilson, Mindy Kaling, Joel Stein, Paul Feig, Rob Corddry, Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer and Diablo Cody — remember to set their DVRs? Anyone subscribing to the theory of Twitter as a cross-platform [...]

What do you do if your TV pilot finally gets made — in the middle of a media meltdown and the worst recession in years? And what do you do if it isn’t picked up, but at the last minute, randomly, gets scheduled to air? In the olden days (read: a few years ago), you [...]