Amy Poehler Pays Tribute to Parks and Rec Producer Following His Death

After a possible overdose, Parks and Recreation co-executive-producer Harris Wittels was found dead on Thursday, and Amy Poehler paid tribute to him at the Unite4:Humanity event in LA later that night. While accepting her award, Amy said, "So, here's my daily life — today, I lost a friend. I lost a dear, young man in my life who was struggling with addiction and died, just a few hours before we came." She continued, "Jane [Aronson] and I sat and talked about it. I'm sharing it with you because life and death live so close together and we walk that fine line every day, and at the end of the day, when things happen in our lives, we turn to people that we love, and we look to our family and our community for support, and we lean on people in a hope that they will ease our pain."

Before Parks and Recreation, Harris Wittels wrote for The Sarah Silverman Program, and he was also known for creating the term humblebrag, eventually penning the 2012 book Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty. Sarah Silverman tweeted about him on Thursday night, saying, "You should know that Harris was brilliant beyond compare. That his imagination was without limit. That he loved comedy more than anything."