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Amy Poehler knows how to turn Emmy lemons into party lemonade!

The nine-time Emmy loser threw an Emmys Party Loser Lounge bash with 11-time loser Jon Hamm following Sunday's ceremony, and Access Hollywood caught up with the actress to get the dirt on the silly soiree.

"It was a lot of fun," Amy told Access at the Los Angeles premiere of her new comedic film, "A.C.O.D.," on Thursday.

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The Losers Lounge, which was reportedly attended by stars including Jimmy Kimmel, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones and more, required ...

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The silver lining to being rejected by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences? Simple: You get an automatic invite to the official Losers Lounge party, sponsored by nine-time Emmy loser Amy Poehler and 11-time loser Jon Hamm.

“We figured that the winners get celebrated enough so we thought it was about time that the losers get celebrated,” Hamm told E! News a few days before this year’s Emmys telecast.

“Poehler and I are friends from a long time ago,” he continued, explaining that he and his pal spent the night of the 2012 Emmys partying with other non-winners in...

This story first appeared in the Oct. 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.  There are always fetes for awards-show winners -- but losers have never had a place to go to drown their sorrows. Until now. Photos: 2013 Emmy Parties Jon Hamm and Amy Poehler, both multi-nominated Emmy losers (including this year), created the first Emmy Party Losers Lounge at Soho House for after the telecast. Lots of famous losers showed up: Jimmy Kimmel, Elisabeth Moss, David Spade, Fred Armisen and January Jones. Winners were allowed in only if they made a donation to the Worldwide Orphans

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Washington, Sep 23: Jon Hamm and Amy Poehler are planning to host a secret party for those who didn't win the Emmy Awards.

The 'Mad Men' star told E! News that he and Poehler devised the plan in 2012 at Kristen Wiig's post-Emmy party, after the 'Saturday Night Live' star hosted the bash in her hotel room for losing the award for 'Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series' to Julie Bowen, Huffington Post reported.

Hamm said that they called the party Losers Lounge, as no one who won the coveted award was present there.

The 42-year-old actor said that they have decided that they would do it bigger and better with other.

Anna Kendrick in Pitch Perfect

This weekend Pitch Perfect, a movie about a scrappy competitive singing troupe, hits screens in an explosion of mind-blowing 8-part harmony. Think Bring It On with jazz hands instead of spirit fingers. And no Eliza Dushku. (And no Jesse Bradford. And no “cheer sex”. I could go on.)

I have a love/hate relationship with a cappella. On the one hand, I genuinely respect the vocal skill it takes to sing as a tight group without any outside guidance. The pitch, the rhythm, tone, everything - it's incredibly difficult to do well, and it's an amazing way to showcase a true mastery of the vocal instrument.

It's also usually cornier than a johnny cake. The massacring of popular music, the cringe-inducing near-choreography ... all this combined with a healthy dose of earnest enthusiasm is usually enough to make many of us look the other way whenever...