After a troubling season 51 debut last week with Bad BunnyIt seemed like there was a 50/50 chance that the second episode of the season, with guest host and beloved Saturday Night Live alum Amy Poehler, would turn things around. Will the text appear clearer and less obvious in the hands of an experienced sketch maker?
Poehler, host of the popular podcast “Good hang“, made all the right moves and perhaps even overextended herself, appearing in almost every sketch, including the cold open and “Weekend Update” for a joke. You could (and should) give Poehler credit for her boundless energy, which lifted weaker sketches like O post-menopausal mom who goes goth and the one where Poehler and Bowen Young are composers of the opening theme of “Rupture” (the joke is that their theme songs always start with a “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” style rap as the first option).
But Poehler also benefited from a much stronger sketch premise compared to last week, with a beautifully executed sketch about a TV psychic, Miss Lycuswho hurries everyone because at 7 o'clock in the evening she has problems, in exact parody of the Netflix series “Hunting Wives”,» with a guest appearance by Poehler's Parks and Recreation co-star Aubrey Plaza. This text gave Poehler big, broad characters like a CEO. gives birth during a meeting with her employeesmatriarch in a family of idiots called Rudemans and an elderly lawyer who interrupts a commercial to get ahead of the other lawyers. based on best experience.
Poehler also got a little help from some longtime friends and alumni, including Tina Fey, who appeared as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in an outdoor appearance, and Seth Meyers, who returned to the “Weekend Update” table with Poehler and Fey.
Podcasting may have allowed Poehler to muster up some stage energy to take off on “SNL”; Overall she gave a great performance in this solid episode.
Musical guests performed “Role Model”Sally, When the wine runs out,“with a surprise appearance by Charlie XCX as Sally, and “Some kind of defender” Before closing, “SNL” paid tribute to Diane Keaton. whose death was announced on Saturdayon the title card. She has never hosted Saturday Night Live, but has made numerous appearances on the show.
This week's cold open parodied Etty. General Pam Bondi's controversial statement Meeting this week with the US Senate Judiciary Committee. Poehler appeared as Bondi and answered questions from Democratic senators with a series of pointed insults that she described as “the burns I got on that piece of paper.” After ridiculing them and avoiding questions about James Comey's indictment and Jeffrey Epstein's affairs, Bondi makes way for Noem (Fey, returning to the cold open politics of “SNL”), who joins in the ridicule, telling one senator, “This makes me laugh more than the end of 'Old Yeller.' When reminded that a dog was shot at the end of the film, she replied: “They don’t just shoot dogs. The heroes shoot them.” While the first half of the cold open was shaky, with insults falling on deaf ears despite Poehler's strong speech, Fey's appearance livened things up and ended with a call and response between Fey and Poehler mocking ICE recruiting announcements. “Are you taking the supplements you bought at the gas station?” Noem asked, “Buckle up and put on a pair of Oakleys, big boy, and welcome to ICE!”

Poehler's monologue was sweet, thoughtful and self-deprecating. “This is where I found my first love,” she said, “being famous.” She went on to describe her life now, saying, “I'm a podcaster. If that's not an indicator of a recession, I don't know what is.” She also noted that the episode marked the actual 50th anniversary of SNL, which first aired on October 11, 1975. “Like (host) George Carlin, I’m thrilled,” she said. Poehler made fun of artificial intelligence actors who was in the news and might want to take her job. “You can never write a joke, and I'm ready to do it completely frontally, but no one asked me, okay?” – she concluded defiantly.
Best Sketch of the Night: The Thigh Squeeze Is Stronger in Texas, Too

The party may be a little late (the show came out in July), but this parody trailer for Netflix's Hunting Wives hits all the right notes, with Poehler as frequently topless as Margot and Chloe Fineman as Sophie (Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow, respectively, in the series). The trailer promises that as the women get more horny and drunk, thighs will clench and guns will be drawn. Aubrey Plaza appears as the new wife from California, and soon all the other women in the cast are caressing her while they make mimosas. Some great lines from this: “It's like Call Me By Your Name for women who shop at Bass Pro Shop” and “Don't watch this on a plane.”
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Poehler's character Psychic talk show sketch was very funny, but the sketch about lone lawyers only tops it because it takes place in some extremely weird and stupid places for much longer than it needs to and involves seemingly the entire cast. What begins as a typical personal injury lawyer ad, explaining that the firm has 50 years of combined experience, ends up featuring long-lived turtles, Sarah Sherman as a vampire lawyer named Draku-Lo, and the ageless tree Yggdrasil (Young), which once represented Zeus.
Weekend Update Winner: Someday This 13 Pound Baby Will Watch This

In a packed episode of “Weekend Update,” Sherman profiled a caffeinated Long Islander. Rhonda TireWHO protests New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. and Marello Hernandez and Jane Wickline are back as is. seemingly incompatible couple discussing their plans for Halloween. But it was an epic prank that pitted former “Update” hosts Poehler, Fey and Meyers against current ones Colin Jost and Michael Che to poke fun at the birth of a nearly 13-pound baby born in Tennessee. “He was so big that he hit the doctor his ass!” Poehler began. Some of the best jokes: “The woman was running around the room like a deflated balloon.” “Did she give birth or get kicked out?” “Baby name is AHHHH!” Poehler concluded the competition by declaring, “The record was for the loosest vagina, and the previous one belonged to… me!”