Again in 2000, Yo La Tengo launched a canopy of George McRae’s track “You Can Have It All” and paid Amy Poehler, then a younger actress and comic in New York, to pay homage to her Upright Residents Brigade skit “Spaghetti Jesus” for the one’s cowl paintings. The track shortly grew to become a staple of the band’s discography, however most hearken to it within the context of And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, the studio album on which it seems. Poehler has since develop into an A-list star, however she was completely satisfied to revisit this deep lower from her profession whereas stopping by Jimmy Kimmel Reside! final night time. Watch her interview about the entire expertise, and a few back-and-forth banter with Weapons N’ Roses guitarist Slash, under.
When requested by Jimmy Kimmel if the crimson goop on her face is blood, Poehler clarified that it’s pasta sauce. “That’s the primary and solely time I’ve been on the quilt of a report,” she laughs. “That’s a sketch I did with UCB, my sketch group, known as ‘Spaghetti Jesus.’ The premise of the sketch is that the face of Jesus is present in a bowl of spaghetti, after which somebody ate it. We panned round to see who it was after which that occurred. So I assume the positive folks of Yo La Tengo thought it will be a great album cowl…. , it was a distinct time.”
It could have been Poehler’s final time as the quilt paintings for a report, however it wasn’t her final time working with Yo La Tengo. The 2 crossed paths once more in a while throughout her time on Parks and Recreation when Yo La Tengo, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, the Decemberists, and Ginuwine all appeared in the finale of the NBC program’s sixth season.
Yo La Tengo launched their most up-to-date album, This Silly World, final 12 months. Examine it at No. 38 in Pitchfork’s record of “The 50 Greatest Albums of 2023” and revisit the interview “Forty Years In, Yo La Tengo Are Nonetheless Making It Up as They Go.”
