Poehler was celebrated in song, dance and an uproarious roast on Thursday as the recipient of the award, reported People magazine.
"I'd like to thank you, Hasty Pudding, for reminding me how hard it is to write funny jokes," Poehler, 43, said at the ceremony, where presenters poked fun at the actress for never having won an Emmy Award, despite being nominated more than a dozen times.
"When I was growing up in Burlington (a Boston suburb), Harvard University used to be a group of buildings we threw rocks at on our way to a real job. And as I drove by and gave the middle finger to this place, I never knew that you guys would be giving me all this," she said.