Amy Poehler Thinks It's 'Hot Bulls—t' That the Oscars Rarely Award Pure Comedies

Amy Poehler precocious went to bat for drama and however she feels it is unfairly treated astatine the Academy Awards — saying the Oscars overlooking the genre is “hot bulls—t.”

It each started with Poehler’s podcast Good Hang With Amy. On her astir caller episode, she welcomed British A-lister Olivia Coleman, who presently stars successful the drama The Roses — yes, loosely based connected the 1981 caller The War of the Roses by Warren Adler — alongside Doctor Strange himself, Benedict Cumberbatch.

During the episode, Coleman made a speedy telephone telephone to Cumberbatch, who said portion helium was connected air, "If you tin bash comedy, you tin bash anything. I truly bash judge that." That comment, which Poehler agreed with, acceptable her connected her mini rant defending drama arsenic an artform.

Amy Poehler has criticized the Oscars for overlooking comedy. Photo by Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot.

"Every azygous twelvemonth astatine the Oscars, everybody [in comedy] gets blanked and each the superior radical get up and judge and accept,” the Parks and Recreation alum told Coleman and Cumberbatch. “It's immoderate blistery bulls—t! Because drama is not easy.”

She besides added a motion to the 2 performers, who enactment connected a showcase of their beardown comedic instincts successful their caller film. “And I got to archer you, some you and Olivia tin bash both," Poehler said.

While the Academy has awarded immoderate beauteous unthinkable comedies implicit the years — projects similar The Favourite, Barbie, and Everything Everywhere All At Once travel to caput — it’s just to accidental that the voting assemblage does thin to favour dramas implicit everything. To that end, drama isn’t adjacent the lone genre unfairly disregarded by the Oscars. Horror whitethorn adjacent person a worse clip successful the awards space, with very fewer films ever making it to film’s biggest night, adjacent erstwhile they merit it.

Many fearfulness films and performances person been portion of that conversation, but possibly 1 of the astir prevalent successful caller times is Toni Collette’s unbelievable crook successful Ari Aster’s 2018 debut Hereditary. This year, folks are having a akin effect to Amy Madigan’s show successful Zach Cregger’s sophomore diagnostic Weapons.

Comedy — particularly straightforward ones that don’t see an other genre descriptor — much than deserves its spot astatine the astir prestigious awards ceremonial successful the industry. Maybe Poehler’s comments volition animate much Academy members to deliberation extracurricular the drama.

Photo by Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.