Amy Poehler was scheduled to appear on Saturday Night Live last night, but she was a little sidetracked earlier in the day and wasn’t able to make it. Instead, Poehler and her husband, Arrested Development‘s Will Arnett, became proud parents.
Amy and Will welcomed Archie Arnett on the afternoon of October 24.
On behalf of Poehler and her husband, Will Arnett, “I can confirm that Amy gave birth to Archie Arnett on Saturday,” read a statement from Poehler’s spokesman, Lewis Kay.
The baby was born early Saturday evening in New York, weighing 8 pounds, 1 ounce.
Mother and child were “healthy and resting comfortably,” according to the statement.
[From MSN Entertainment]
SNL‘s Weekend Update just wasn’t the same tonight. Seth Meyers did a fine job holding down desk duties, but I missed Amy’s craziness. According to earlier reports, she won’t be returning either. So while I’m very happy for Amy and Will, I’m gonna miss that wild woman. Weekend Update was closed with a rendition of “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You” with lyric changes dedicated especially to Amy. Maya Rudolph, making a guest appearance, and Kenan Thompson sang “We love you Amy, and we just can’t wait to meet your baby!”
Poehler reportedly was at rehearsals up until Friday but didn’t make it in on Saturday. I know after watching her dancing and rapping last week I couldn’t imagine how she was pulling it off. Her baby belly was adorably huge and her due date was late October. Archie is the first child for Poehler and Arnett.
Congratulations Amy and Will… and Little Archie!
Amy Poehler and Will Arnett are shown at the Emmy Awards on 9/21/08. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures
Aw, congrats to them, and I love the name Archie.
what? only one? 😯
Awww i love these two! They’re such a cute couple,And you just know,That baby is going to grow up in a loving and caring home. That’s one very lucky kid. congratulations to both of them!!
what? only one?
Congrats Xiao, you almost made my snort coffee all over my keyboard!! 😆
Congrats to them! I’m sure the baby is completly adorable
😀 Aw, congrats to them. I hope Katie Couric and Hillary Clinton send her gifts – she made them both look much cooler than they are.
thats awesome, glad her little one arrived safely.
xiao– that was so rude.
what a fun house to come into!
amy and will are fantastic people (or so it seems from my monitor!).
here’s to wishing the new family all the best!
I think the baby is lucky to have these two as parents. My sincere congratulations for the happy couple!
@Caribassett: No it wasn’t rude, it was funny as all get-out 😀
I have a huge crazy crush on my fellow Canuck Will Arnett, and a total girl crush on Amy, so while I’m sad they’re not having babies with ME, I’m THRILLED they’re having them with each other. *girlie squeals* 😛
No that was just plain vicious.
The comment on an exception to the current trend of multiple births amongst the celebrity set is not vicious. It’s called ‘sarcasm’.
An oblique reference to the twin epidemic is vicious? Get some humour in your life caribassett, you really really need it
thanx Baholicious : )
LMAO… holy cow, caribassett, how can you read vicious into a joke about how it novel these days that she didn’t have twins? There was no “victim” to that joke, so there is no “vicious” in it.
Come on.
Heh, she looks a bit miserable in the bottom pic. Over 8 pounds is big for a first baby, especially since she’s so tiny! Must have been a crowded belly.
My last baby was 9.5 pounds and everyone kept asking me if I was preggers with twins. It wasn’t offensive, IMO.
I too thought it was very funny. And entirely topical in this twintastic world of celebrity babies. 8)
Congratulations 😀
No that was just plain vicious. 🙄
Another humorless troll.
Congrats! The Weekend Update shout out was so cute
@xiaoecho:
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
ROFL.
Archie like Archie Bunker?
With a name like that, this baby is going to have to grow up with a huge and steadfast sense of humour!
Congratulations to the happy family, they look really over the moon 🙂
@jennifer
that was the cutest thing I read today!! LOL! I love their gap ad together! And archie is such an adorable name.
Well, congrats to them both…I’ll have to make sure I send them a case of Baby Duck Merlot.
I love that they named their baby Archie. It’s… so them. Is it short for Archibald? Oh, I hope so.
I just knew she was about to pop at any moment – she was looking mighty uncomfortable on SNL the other night. Congrats to them!
they got the date wrong. That saturday was the 25th not the 24th
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