Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler launched Good Hang in March 2025 and it shot straight into the podcast charts, which honestly tracks for someone who spent years on SNL and created Leslie Knope. The premise is simple: Amy invites famous people into her studio and they just talk. No self-help agenda, no productivity hacks -- the show explicitly says it is not trying to make you better. Instead, you get Amy trading stories with guests like Viola Davis, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, and Jennifer Lawrence about their careers, mutual friends, and whatever is making them laugh lately. It already has over 10,000 ratings with a 4.7-star average after just one year, which tells you people are responding to the vibe. Amy is the kind of interviewer who makes A-list guests sound like regular people. She can find the weird, specific detail in a guest life story and pull on it until you get something you have never heard before. The show mixes studio recordings with live-taped episodes, so the energy shifts between intimate and electric. Produced by The Ringer and Paper Kite Productions, it has a polished sound without feeling overproduced. New episodes drop weekly and run about an hour each. If you miss the warmth of a great late-night interview but wish it had more inside jokes and fewer commercial breaks, this is exactly that.