Being a writer, director and actor contains its fair share of being interviewed – and, we imagine, a lot of the same questions tend to come up time and time again.

So when Amy Poehler faced a set of quick-fire questions for The Hollywood Reporter’s ‘40(ish) Most Powerful People In Comedy’ list, we wouldn’t have been surprised to see some fairly homogeneous answers.

But, in fact, the comedy star decided that she’d take a different approach to the interview – and her answers were surprising and amazing in equal measure.

How Amy Poehler turned a fluffy interview into a bold political statement