Amy Poehler‘s return to the “Saturday Night Live” stage provided the perfect opportunity for several of her former castmates to swing by 30 Rock.
After a Trump Cabinet-spoofing cold open shocked the live studio audience via the return of Tina Fey, Poehler revealed she had even more pull while divebombing into Colin Jost and Michael Che‘s “Weekend Update” segment. Poehler, who once sat behind the “Update” newsdesk, criticized a weak punchline from Jost and called for a “joke-off.”
The semi-recurring segment on “Weekend Update” isn’t quite as beloved as a Che and Jost’s regular joke swap, but it has a similar competitive spirit at its heart. In short, multiple “SNL” cast members riff a punchline to the same setup. (In this case, the prompt was “a woman in Tennessee broke a record by giving