{"id":183248,"date":"2025-10-01T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183248\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:23:07","slug":"amy-poehler-and-kristen-wiig-contemplate-a-quieter-metallica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183248\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig Contemplate a &#8220;Quieter&#8221; Metallica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/amy-poehler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Amy Poehler<\/a> welcomed her good friend and fellow Saturday Night Live alum <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/kristen-wiig\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kristen Wiig<\/a> to her Good Hang podcast, and somehow the conversation turned to a scenario in which Wiig joins <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/metallica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Metallica<\/a> and makes them a \u201cquieter\u201d band.<\/p>\n<p>At one point during the episode, Poehler brought up Wiig\u2019s singing talent, and asked her if she was ever interested in pursuing music professionally. \u201cI would love to do an album, a record,\u201d responded Wiig, \u201cbut I don\u2019t even know how to get started.\u201d She then turned straight into the camera, and added, \u201cCan you weigh in on the comments on this? \u2026 How do you get into the music business?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poehler suggested, \u201cYou can join someone\u2019s band\u2026 Whose band should you join? Metallica?,\u201d as both laughed, with Wiig remarking, \u201cMetallica\u2026 just take them in a new direction,\u201d and Poehler continuing, \u201cJust quieter\u2026 just a little bit quieter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Wiig then imagined the conversation she would have with Metallica, saying, \u201cJust calling them up, and being like, \u2018Guys, I know you have your thing \u2026 but you\u2019ve been doing it a long time\u2026,&#8217;\u201d with Poehler finishing up the thought by adding, \u201c\u2018your fans would love to sit down [at shows].&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two continued talking about music by recalling how they used to go to rock shows a lot when they were younger, but these days rather go to sleep early.<\/p>\n<p>That all said, Wiig does have a big connection to the rock world. While she\u2019s now married to actor Avi Rothman, she dated drummer Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes for a few years back in the early 2010s.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig discuss Metallica during the Good Hang podcast below, and catch Poehler <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/09\/snl-season-51-bad-bunny-amy-poehler-sabrina-carpenter-host-first-three-episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hosting the upcoming October 11th episode<\/a> of Saturday Night Live.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amy Poehler welcomed her good friend and fellow Saturday Night Live alum Kristen Wiig to her Good Hang&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-183248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}