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"Amy Poehler has revealed that she is very proud of her work on Parks and Recreation. The actress admitted that overcoming comparisons to creator Greg Daniels&amp;#039;s previous success on The Office and her own Saturday Night Live stint was a real challenge for the sitcom. Poehler told The New York Times: &amp;quot;[Some people] thought we were a spinoff of The Office. We had to prove [that] we weren&amp;#039;t. We had to prove Leslie wasn&amp;#039;t trying to be Michael Scott. And that this wasn&amp;#039;t Saturday Night Live. We had to prove all that.&amp;quot; Poehler further revealed that she is happy critics and viewers are paying more attention to Parks and Recreation as it enters its fourth season. &amp;quot;I think there is a nice dovetailing of quality of show and people liking it and network supporting it. It&amp;#039;s all coming together rather nicely,&amp;quot; she said. Poehler recently said that her Parks and Recreation character Leslie Knope wrote &amp;quot;every single word&amp;quot; of her new book Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America. Parks and Recreation star Jim O&amp;#039;Heir has told Digital Spy that he would love Bill Murray to guest star on the show. Parks and Recreation continues with new episode &amp;#039;Pawnee Rangers&amp;#039; on Thursday at 8:30/9:30c on NBC. Watch a preview of Parks and Recreation&amp;#039;s second season below:  &amp;gt; Read Digital Spy&amp;#039;s full interview with Jim O&amp;#039;Heir "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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