While Amy Poehler has had steady work both on and off the stage of Saturday Night Live over the last few years it looks like she may be moving up to "big time" status along with former SNL cast mate Tina Fey. And, it might all begin this weekend. Not only is she starring with Fey in the movie Baby Mama, which is being released today (and is expected to be the box office champ, despite mixed reviews), Poehler also has a new cartoon premiering on Nickelodeon.
The Mighty B, which premieres Saturday at 10:30 AM, features Amy as the voice of Bessie Higgenbottom. Bessie is world's most ambitious Honeybee scout in the known universe. She wears her uniform all of the time, leads her troop with a military-like zeal, and has the most badges than any other Honeybee in history. But, she wants to earn all of the Honeybee badges, and she's determined to earn them. Sometimes she imagines herself as the superheroine The Mighty B, to help her through the tasks that will earn her another badge.
Poehler, who created and writes Mighty B, is joined in the sound booth by Andy Richter. Andy plays Bessie's younger brother, Benjamin. Ben, who is an all-around scaredy cat, keeps a straight face while on his adventures with his older sister. Also voicing a character in the cartoon is Poehler's SNL cast mate Keenan Thompson, who plays a character named Rocky Rhodes. Thompson is no stranger to Nickelodeon ... he began his television career on the network's sketch show All That in the early 1990s and followed that up with the sitcom Kennan and Kel later that decade.
More information about Mighty B, including interviews with Poehler and Richter, can be found at the show's official site.
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4-25-2008 @ 1:29PM
brodeur said...
Hmmm. I wonder if they will come after my site, www.mightyb.com ? I've had that thing for 8 years, even though it doesn't look it! ;-)
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4-26-2008 @ 6:54AM
stewartwallace said...
Having Andy Richter play her brother is a nice touch, given that she used to show up in the audience on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Andy's little sister who had a crush on Conan.
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4-28-2008 @ 11:23AM
Haggis said...
I like the episode where she hangs out with the Unibomber then looks inside the Bucket of Truth.
... Oh wait.
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