When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

Poehler’s anecdote uses a vivid, slightly absurd image—handing shrimp to Billy Corgan—to compress a larger story about pre-fame work and the odd proximity to celebrity that service jobs can create. The humor comes from the contrast between the grandeur of rock stardom and the mundanity of catering labor, with Poehler positioned not as a fan or peer but as staff. Implicitly, the line underscores how nonlinear creative careers can be: before becoming a well-known comedian and actor, she did ordinary gigs, and those gigs produced surreal brush-with-fame moments. It also gently punctures celebrity mystique by framing the encounter as just another task performed off a tray.