TV viewers who complain that "Saturday Night Live" isn't "live" enough can take heart knowing they will soon see the result of much of cast member Amy Poehler's downtime. "'SNL' has a loose schedule where you're off for a couple of weeks at a time, so I've been fortunate to be working a lot," she says.

Next year the 32-year-old Poehler will play Jack Black's nouveau-riche wife, running for Congress off the profits from his poo-evaporating invention in Barry Levinson's "Envy." She'll also play a scheming mother in "Mean Girls," written by "SNL" anchorwoman Tina Fey, and appear as a crazed bank teller with "SNL" alumni Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay in "Anchorman."

"I've been working with a lot of my friends, which is great. Adam let me improvise forever," she says. Although her former comedy group, Upright Citizens Brigade, went off the air three years ago, they reunited to film a totally improvised film, "Wild Girls Gone," about the making of a "Girls Gone Wild" video, which will soon be making the festival rounds in hopes of finding distribution. One more reason to go out to the movies on a boring Saturday night.