{"id":2268390,"date":"2026-02-05T18:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2268390"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:41:23","slug":"amy-poehler-and-jason-bateman-had-frightening-experiences-with-a-chimp-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/amy-poehler-and-jason-bateman-had-frightening-experiences-with-a-chimp-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Poehler And Jason Bateman Had Frightening Experiences With A Chimp On SNL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amy Poehler<\/a> and Jason Bateman<\/a> got a real lesson in monkey business while appearing on “Saturday Night Live<\/a>.”\u00a0Poehler recalled her terrifying experience working with a chimpanzee named Mikey on the 2005 sketch\u00a0“Monkeys Throwing Poop at Celebrities”\u00a0on\u00a0her “Good Hang” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly<\/a>),\u00a0explaining, “I walked past the chimpanzee and it reached out and grabbed me by the wrist and wouldn’t let go in the middle of a quick change. I think it was the blonde hair or my vibe. And I started screaming. Chimpanzees are very strong.”<\/p>\n

Her co-star, “Arrested Development<\/a>” actor Jason Bateman had his own startling moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Amy Poehler and Jason Bateman got a real lesson in monkey business while appearing on “Saturday Night Live.”\u00a0Poehler recalled her terrifying experience working with a chimpanzee named Mikey on the 2005 sketch\u00a0“Monkeys Throwing Poop at Celebrities”\u00a0on\u00a0her “Good Hang” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly),\u00a0explaining, “I walked past the chimpanzee and it reached out and grabbed me by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2268391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2268390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Amy-Poehler-And-Jason-Bateman-Had-Frightening-Experiences-With-A.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268392,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268390\/revisions\/2268392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}