Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have returned to Studio 8H.
Poehler, 54, and Fey, 55, reunited on the Saturday Night Live stage on Saturday, October 11, making two joint appearances — one for the show’s cold open and one other in the course of the standing Weekend Update segment.
Fey, who starred on SNL from 1997 to 2006, cameo’d alongside her former solid member Poehler, who hosted Saturday’s show. In the course of the cold open, the duo each played members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet — Poehler portrayed Attorney General Pam Bondi, while Fey transformed into gun-toting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Fey joined SNL as a author in 1997 and as an on-screen solid member in 2000 because the host of Weekend Update. She and Poehler overlapped on the show from 2000 until 2006, when Fey left to start out her hit NBC show, 30 Rock.
Saturday night’s reunion was not the primary time Fey and Poehler have joined forces since their SNL days. The pair, who famously cohosted Weekend Update from 2004 to 2006 after Jimmy Fallon’s departure, reunited on the Emmys in January 2024 during a surprise appearance on the awards ceremony.
“We’ve reached the stage in life once we’ll only present awards sitting down,” Fey joked. “Listed below are tonight’s nominees for Outstanding Live Variety Special.”
As a substitute of reading off an inventory of names, the duo took turns making jokes in regards to the nominees.
“The one show that’s longer than Titanic with commercials on TBS [is] the Oscars,” Poehler quipped, alongside an image of Jimmy Kimmel.
The pair also took a moment to discuss Rihanna’s 2024 performance on the Super Bowl.
“The concert [was] so good, it got us all pregnant: The Apple Music Super Bowl 57 Halftime Show starring Rihanna” Fey said of the moment the musician, 37, confirmed her second pregnancy. (Rihanna now shares three children along with her partner, ASAP Rocky.)
Though each Fey and Poehler aren’t any longer solid members of the show, they’ve each maintained a passion for his or her former television home.
“If it’s a Saturday, we go to our room, and we watch SNL from the hotel room. It’s a dream,” Fey explained on a January 2024 episode of Sunday Today. “We love watching it together. If we’re not together, we’ll live-text during it. It’s like someone who played sports, like, ‘Oh, I see. You recognize what? I bet this moved up from dress [rehearsal].’”
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She continued: “We root for everyone. And the top author in me is all the time like, ‘Huh. Interesting. Perhaps the sport could’ve been clearer.’”
The pair also previously reunited on the 2021 Golden Globes because the award ceremony’s cohosts in February. Fey and Poehler took the chance to poke a bit fun on the Netflix series Emily in Paris, in addition to on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
“Emily in Paris is nominated for best TV series, musical or comedy, and I for one cannot wait to seek out out which it’s,” Fey said as she rattled off the category’s nominees. “’French exit’ is what I did after watching the primary episode of Emily in Paris.”
Of the Foreign Press, which had recently been accused of an absence of membership diversity, Fey added, “The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is made up of around 90 international no Black journalists that attend movie junkets every year, in seek for a greater life. We are saying around 90 because a couple of could be ghosts and the German is only a sausage that somebody drew a bit face on.”