When usual “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost offered an underwhelming punchline about a record-breaking childbirth on Saturday Night Live last night, guest host Amy Poehler popped in to reclaim her spot at the desk. And she brought along two of her fellow “Weekend Update” co-anchors.
“Ah, my first wife and my second wife, everybody,” Poehler said, as Tina Fey and Seth Meyers joined her at the desk. (Fey co-anchored “Weekend Update” with Poehler from 2004 to 2006, and Meyers did so from 2006 to 2008.)
And so Poehler, Fey, Meyers, challenged Jost and current co-anchor Michael Che to a “‘Weekend Update’ Joke Off.”
Here’s a sampling of the punchlines the contenders delivered (no pun intended):
Che: “Here’s a fun fact. The second the baby was out, the woman zipped around