Amy Poehler's goal for Lucy and Desi was to avoid making a documentary where "“funny people talk about how funny everyone is”"

The New York Times

"I was trying to figure out, as a filmmaker, what would be my way in and my point of view," Poehler says of her Amazon documentary on I Love Lucy's Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. "I do find that with people this famous and accomplished, you hear words like 'pioneer' or 'genius' a lot and it’s like … OK. There have been so many tributes already. I was excited when I talked to White Horse and Imagine, and I basically said there are a couple of things I want to try to avoid. One was to spend the whole movie having funny people talk about how funny everyone is. I wanted to try to bring them back down to earth. Then I figured out that the love story is really the thing that, hopefully, keeps people watching." ALSO: Lucy and Desi offers a clear, concise explanation of how these two unlikely impresarios dominated American pop culture in the mid-20th century.