Today Amy Poehler has confirmed to The Associated Press that she’ll be joining The Office spin-off, which will eventually take her to primetime and retire from Saturday Night Live.  Well, actually, it’s not a spin-off at all, but humor me…

Poehler has been a part of the SNL cast since 2001, and in the past years she has served up laughs as a co-anchor with Tina Fey and currently Seth Meyers on “Weekend Update.”

But don’t expect her to jump ship just yet.  A few days ago she also confirmed to Variety.com that she will be back for the 2008- 2009 season of SNL.

Besides SNL, Poehler has been a numerous films- from the more recent Baby Mama to comedy classics like Wet Hot American Summer.  And there are a slew of other movies and television appearances in between those two.

Poehler told The Associated Press that:

“I can kind of confirm that I will be working in some capacity on that show.  I don’t really have any other details yet.”

Even though she isn’t confirming any deets right now, it is being rumored that she is expected to star in the new show.  The hush hush series will air on NBC on Thursdays after The Office starting in the Fall.

With this new addition, will you be watching?  Or will you stick to the original Office crew?

Baby Mama, a comedy due to hit theaters April 25, brings two of SNL’s wildiest talents, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to the big screen. The women teamed up with writer/director Michael McCullers and producers Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn to tell the story about Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) , a successful, single business woman who has dreams of becoming a mother but sadly finds out that she is infertile and hires Angie Ostowiski(Amy Poehler), a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.Simple enough…Kate learns from the steely head (Sigourney Weaver) of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant. Kate immediately goes into prenatal nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But everything turns upside down for Kate and her preparation time when her Baby Mama shows up at her front door needing a place to stay.In a comic battle of wills, Kate struggles to turn Angie into what she feels is the perfect expectant mother. In the middle of this tug-of-war, they’ll discover two kinds of families:the one you’re born to and the one you make.