Amy Poehler said Steve Carell deserved to win the outstanding lead actor award at Sunday’s Emmy Awards for his last season of The Office.

“It’s crazy to me,” Poehler, appearing on The Tonight Show Wednesday, said of the six-time nominee, who left the NBC hit earlier this year. (He lost out on the honors to The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons.)

Carell “was totally robbed -- he does such amazing work and everyone knows it,” she said.

The 40-year-old star of Parks & Recreation also explained how she orchestrated a beauty pageant spoof during Sunday's Emmy Awards, where she and the other nominees for best lead actress in a comedy assembled on the stage with roses and a tiara in tow for the eventual winner (who