Amy Poehler

The 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Nominations were just announced in Los Angeles.

Bridesmaids scene-stealer Melissa McCarthy and Fringe's Joshua Jackson made the announcement live from the Television Academy's Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood.

Here is a list of the 2011 nominations:

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Amy Poehler is returning to SNL! She's set to return to the show later this month, but as guest host for the launch of the show's 36th season.

Bryan Cranston of the AMC series "Breaking Bad" and Jane Lynch from Fox television's musical hit "Glee" are also joining Amy as SNL hosts.

Katy Perry will be the special musical guest.

And that's not all. According to Entertainment Weekly, four new comics also are joining the "Saturday Night Live" ensemble as regulars -- Vanessa Bayer, Paul Brittain, Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah.

Set your DVR's for Sept. 25th!

Amy Poehler’s new show Parks & Recreation debuted last night, and their opening numbers were surprisingly good. The Thursday night lineup is already pretty impressive with The Office and 30 Rock, so Amy and her new gang may fit in nicely!

The show drew in 6.8 million viewers, which is what 30 Rock averages for their season. It’s not quite on par with The Office, though the two shows share the same documentary-style camera work.

We were laughing the way we do during Jack Donaghy’s soliloquies on 30 Rock, but there’s definite potential. And just given Amy’s body of work in the past, we’ll give it a few more weeks.

If you missed last night’s episode, check out the clip here:

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We just can’t wait forAmy Poehler to come back to television. Weekend Update just isn’t the same without her! But don’t worry. She’s heading back sooner than later. Recently Amy dished on what the show’s going to be like, and what her character is all about.

Good news for those of you who love the office setup, because Amy’s new show will have the same documentary feel, as far as the cameras go. Her character, Leslie Knope, is a mid-level bureaucrat in Parks and Recreation in Pawnee, Indiana. Her goal is to improve her own city, while also getting one step closer to her ultimate goal: becoming President. Another touch from The Office is Rashida Jones, who plays a local nurse.

Amy says of her new character, "I think in most comedies the lead character suffers from not being self-aware. Leslie is an optimist, and she's really ambitious, she's hoping the place she is now is not that place she is going to stay. I think we're supposed to like her, but I do think she decides, she wants to run with the big boys, and you have to take the hits. It's going to be very easy to humiliate and be mean to me on this show. It's going to make you feel good. You'll see people be mean to me, you'll be satisfied."

Co-creator Greg Daniels says, this is not a grandiose enterprise: "If the setting is very ordinary, the characters can shine against that. I'm interested in doing character comedy. We're keeping the background really plain so the humor of the actors is set off nicely."

Well it works for The Office! There’s nothing plainer than Scranton, Pennsylvania, and it’s one of the greatest shows on television.