Aubrey Plaza Was Scolded for Swiping Notes from Joe Biden’s Desk

Like her Parks and Recreation character April Ludgate, Aubrey Plaza has never been much of a rule-follower.

During a recent appearance on her former co-star Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, the actors reflected on their cast trip to the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency.

Plaza, 41, said she will “never forget” the visit, where then-Vice President Joe Biden welcomed them into the West Wing.

“Aubrey stole something from his desk,” Poehler, 53, revealed, calling the day “super fun.”

Plaza admitted, “Yeah, I did. I stole,” during their tour of Biden’s office.

“I saw a little vice president-monogrammed notebook piece of paper that said like, ‘Aubrey Plaza,’ and then three facts about me, like, ‘Wilmington, Delaware, Ursuline Academy, we met,’ blah blah blah,” she recalled. “‘Cause that’s what the politicians all do. They get their [notes] and then you’re like, ‘Oh my god, how did he remember?’ And I swiped it.”

“Mike Schur was like, ‘You cannot steal something,’” she then laughed, referring to the Parks and Rec co-creator. “And I was like, ‘Oh, shut up, Mike.’ And he was like, ‘We’re literally in the White House.’ And I was like, ‘We are?’”

Poehler pointed out that Plaza “didn’t get in trouble,” but it’s a memory they still laugh about today.

“I am kind of surprised that there’s no, like, alarm system in there,” the Mean Girls alum explained as Plaza said, “There’s nothing in there. It’s like a house of cards.”

The pair joked that the White House “is janky as f—,” likening it to the set of a TV show.

“It’s like SNL,” Poehler teased. “You go in there and you’re like, ‘This is the White House? This place sucks.’”

Former President Biden appeared on two separate episodes of Parks and Rec throughout its six-year run.

He was in the season 5 finale as well as the series finale, and was memorably the celebrity crush of Poeheler’s character, Leslie Knope.

The cast has long supported the politician, with Plaza, Poehler, Schur, Adam Scott, Nick Offerman, Retta and Jim O’Heir joining together in support of Wisconsin Democrats in the 2020 election that Biden ultimately won.

Poehler and Maya Rudolph also held a town hall with his Vice President Kamala Harris that same year for a Biden campaign fundraiser.

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