Laughter really is the perfect drugs, and nobody is aware of that like Amy Poehler and Jon Hamm.

In the course of the latest episode of her podcast, Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Poehler informed visitor Paul Rudd concerning the time Hamm made her laugh hysterically when she got the devastating news simply days earlier than she was as a consequence of give delivery that her OB-GYN had died.

It was the week of Hamm’s Saturday Night time Stay internet hosting debut on Oct. 25, 2008, and Poehler was planning on doing the present on that Saturday, and provides delivery to her son, Archie, the subsequent day, “like a real psycho,” she mentioned.

“We rehearsed all day on Friday — I used to be in 9 sketches or one thing that week, and 6 days earlier than I had accomplished the Palin rap,” Poehler recalled. “I used to be nonetheless feeling fairly good… We have been capturing like a Mad Males pre-tape. I get a name that my OB-GYN has handed away.”

She continued, “An exquisite physician who was in his 80s, who was this unbelievable physician, he handed away, and I burst out crying on the cellphone. And whenever you see a really, very pregnant individual has began crying, it’s totally scary, and the entire crew will get actually quiet.”

Poehler mentioned she had gone behind a partition to have the dialog and when she got here out afterwards, everybody on set rushed to her to verify she was okay. After telling them the news that her OB-GYN had died of a coronary heart assault, the set got “actually quiet” once more. She mentioned, “Hamm leans in, says to me, ‘It is a actually huge deal, and I would like you to get your s— collectively. That is the primary time I am internet hosting and I would like you to f—ing… it is a huge week for me, you gotta pull it collectively.”

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The SNL alum mentioned she went from “crying to laughing so arduous that like squirt tears got here out” and she began laughing and clapping at how humorous the second was. “Once more, an important instance of like life is what you say it’s, proper? Life is what you make and what you say it’s,” Poehler concluded. “And he made me laugh so arduous, and I went into labor that evening. And I believe a whole lot of it was that.”

Hamm told his side of the story on Late Night time with Seth Meyers in February.

“And, I mentioned, ‘God, Amy, that is actually horrible, however you really want to tug it collectively as a result of that is my first time internet hosting and also you higher carry it!’ Which, was an enormous swing!” he recalled to Meyers of his try and lighten the temper at the time. “She instantly began laughing.”

Watch Poehler and Rudd focus on the SNL reminiscence within the video above.