Amy Poehler does one thing differently to every other celebrity podcast. It just won her a Golden Globe.

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Actor, comedic genius, author and now, award-winning podcaster. After bagging the Golden Globe for her podcast, Good Hang, Poehler is what the kids like to call a quadruple threat.

It's the first Golden Globe of its kind — an award for Best Podcast — but it's not the first time Poehler, 54, has won a Golden Globe.

She's been the recipient of Best Actress in a TV comedy series for Parks and Recreation and nominated three times. She's also been nominated for and won an Emmy.

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In fact, she has made each nomination hilarious by either canoodling with George Clooney or being massaged by Bono. She even hosted for three years in a row with best friend and fellow comic genius, Tina Fey. To summarise: Poehler, who earned her breakthrough on television with Saturday Night Live from 2001-2008, knows funny.

But this isn't solely what makes her podcast so popular, (it's now in the top 50 podcasts in the US, a huge feat considering it's less than ten months old).

Sure, she's relatable and unpretentious and warm as toast, (which we need right now in this current climate!) But Poehler — who was married to Will Arnett from 2003 until 2012 and has two teenage boys with him — has done the work. Which is to say, she's been to therapy and knows who she is. That means that unlike other podcasters, she has enough self-awareness not to centre herself in any given conversation or try to outsmart or outperform the guest.

And look, I hate to say it, but competitive performing is something her ex, Arnett, is sometimes guilty of on Smartless, the podcast he hosts with friends and fellow actors, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes. It's a real shame because these are great guys! They're extremely popular, too but they just don't really know how to hold space for people. Which is likely why, though they were nominated in the same category as Poehler, they didn't win.

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Speaking of holding space, look at Poehler, on her podcast in November, deftly exploring Ariana Grande's grief over her grandmother's recent death by asking a simple question. Or rather a statement.

"Tell me about her". Look at her in August, taking gentle care of her friend and former Parks and Rec co-star, Aubrey Plaza, whose husband had just died by suicide, not by skirting around such a difficult topic, but daring to broach it by asking if Aubrey was 'OK.'

This is a huge part of Poehler's magic, but it's not all she's doing as host. The author of Yes Please, a memoir based on her philosophy that, just like in improvisation performance, where the actor stays open and positive by replying to everything with "Yes And…"

Poehler treats every guest less like a celebrity to be feted or fussed over and more like a scene partner by employing this one amazing trick: she makes every guest feel funny.

That's not hard if you're talking to Tina Fey or Maya Rudolph but Poehler is giggling with delight at every hint at humour attempted by guests, from Dakota Johnson to Idris Elba, and especially during last week's one with Gwyneth Paltrow — a woman not normally known for her earthy demeanour. But Poehler and her toasty aura brought out the silly in Paltrow, not by satirising her approach to wellness, or making her defend her beliefs (as many do) but by making her feel seen, comfortable and seriously funny.

Dax Shepard, whose podcast, Armchair Expert, was nominated alongside Poehler's, does his research, but it rarely translates into a guest's total comfort. Same with Mel Robbins, who was nominated for her podcast, while Alex Cooper, host of Call her Daddy who made a pivot from her salacious dating stories to interviewing celebrities, doesn't yet have the confidence to make her guests feel comfortable enough to be, what's the word? Goofy!

Poehler makes her podcast so safe, her guests can be idiots and it's ironically what makes everyone on there sound so smart.

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