‘SNL’ recap: Amy Poehler hosts and returns to ‘Weekend Update’
After last week’s disturbing Season 51 debut with Bad Bunny, it seemed like a 50/50 chance on whether the season’s second episode with guest host and beloved “Saturday Night Live” alum Amy Poehler would turn things around. Will writing feel sharper and less blurry in the hands of a seasoned sketch artist?
Poehler, popular podcast hostGood comment“, made all the right moves and perhaps over-extended herself, appearing in almost every sketch, including the cold open and the “Weekend Update” prank. You can (and should) give Poehler a lot of credit for her boundless energy, which lifted weaker sketches, like the one about A post-menopausal mom who goes goth And one where Buehler and Bowen Yang are Composers of the opening theme “Severance”. (The joke is that their theme songs always start with a rap song that sounds like “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” as a first draft.)
But Poehler also benefited from a much stronger sketch introduction than last week, from a beautiful sketch about the television medium, Miss Lykoswho rushes everyone because she has a hard time going out at 7 p.m., to A A parody of the Netflix series “The Hunting Wives”.,“ With a guest appearance from Poehler’s “Parks & Recreation” co-star Aubrey Plaza. The writing gave Buehler large, expansive characters, such as the CEO Giving birth during a meeting with her staffthe matriarch in a family of jerks called Rodmans An elderly lawyer interrupts a television commercial in front of other lawyers On the basis of obtaining the greatest amount of experience.
Poehler also had a little help from some old friends and alumni, including Tina Fey, who appeared as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in public, and Seth Meyers, who returned to the “Weekend Update” desk with Poehler and Fey.
Podcasting may have allowed Poehler to reserve some stage energy for shooting “SNL”; She gave a great performance for an overall solid episode.
Musical guests performed the exemplary role.”Sally, when the wine runs out,“With a surprise appearance from Charli XCX as Sally, and”Some protectorBefore concluding, “SNL” commemorated Diane Keaton, His death was announced on Saturdayin a title card. She has never hosted “Saturday Night Live” but has been photographed on the show several times.
This week’s cold open mocked Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi is controversial Meeting this week with the US Senate Judiciary Committee. Poehler appeared as Bundy and answered Democratic senators’ questions with a series of withering insults that she described as “barbecue burns on this piece of paper.” After taunting them and avoiding questions about the James Comey indictment and the Jeffrey Epstein files, Bundy made way for Noem (Fey, back in the “SNL” cold-open policy), who joined in the jeering, telling one senator: “This makes me laugh harder than the end of ‘Old Yeller.'” After being reminded that a dog gets shot at the end of that movie, she responded: “Dogs don’t just get shot. Heroes get shot.” While the first half of the cold open was shaky, with the insults not landing despite Poehler’s forceful delivery, Fey’s appearance livened things up and ended strong with a call and response between Fey and Poehler that parodied ICE employment ads. “Are you taking the supplements you bought at the gas station?” “Buckle up and slap some Oakleys, big boy,” Noem asked, “and welcome to ICE!”
Buhler’s monologue was sweet, sad, and self-deprecating. “I found my first love here, being famous,” she said. She went on to describe her life now, saying: “I’m a podcaster. If that’s not a sign of recession, I don’t know what is.” She also noted that this episode marks the actual 50th anniversary of “SNL,” which first aired on Oct. 11, 1975. “Just like (host) George Carlin, I’m so high,” she said. Buehler mocked the AI actors Who were in the news She might want to take her job. “You’ll never be able to write a joke, and I was willing to do a whole intro, but no one asked me, okay?” She concluded defiantly.
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It may be a little late to the party (the show came out in July), but this mock trailer for Netflix’s The Hunting Wives hits all the right notes with Poehler as an often topless Margo and Chloe Fineman as Sophie (Malin Ackerman and Brittany Snow, respectively, in series). The trailer promises that as the women get hornier and drunker, thighs will be squeezed and arms will be drawn. Aubrey Plaza shows up as a new wife from California and is quickly being flirted with by all the other women on the staff while they make mimosas. Some great lines from this: “It’s like ‘Call Me By Your Name’ for the women who shop at Bass Pro Shop,” and “Don’t watch it on the plane.”
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Poehler’s character Drawing a psychological talk show It was very funny, but the sketch about high-achieving lawyers only outshines it because it goes to some very strange and stupid places for much longer than necessary and includes what looks like the entire cast. What starts out as a basic commercial for a personal injury lawyer explaining how the firm has 50 years of combined experience, ends up including the long-lived Turtles, Sarah Sherman as a vampire lawyer named Draco Law, and an ageless tree, Yggdrasil (Yang), who once represented Zeus.
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In the racy “Weekend Update”, Sherman debuts an over-caffeinated Long Islander Rhonda Lacenzowho opposes New York City mayoral candidate Zahran Mamdani. Marcelo Hernandez and Gene Wicklin return as A.J A seemingly mismatched couple Discuss their plans for Halloween. But it was an epic joke featuring former “Update” anchors Poehler, Fey and Myers taking on current anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che to mock the birth of a nearly 13-pound baby born in Tennessee. “It was so big that it slapped the doctor for him Ass!” Poehler began. Some of the best jokes: “The woman is running around the room like a deflated balloon.” “Did she give birth or did she come out?” “The baby’s name is AHHHHH!” Poehler concluded the contest by declaring that “the record was for the most flexible vagina and the previous record was held…by me!”