{"id":218971,"date":"2025-10-12T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218971\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:56:07","slug":"amy-poehler-plays-a-combative-pam-bondi-on-snl-as-tina-fey-makes-surprise-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218971\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Poehler plays a combative Pam Bondi on ‘SNL’ as Tina Fey makes surprise appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pam Bondi vs. the Senate: Round Two. That was the scenario envisaged by \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d on Saturday, with alum Amy Poehler portraying the attorney general in a follow-up to her combative hearing <\/a>with Democrats this week.<\/p>\n

Asked how President Donald Trump could justify deploying National Guard troops<\/a> against Americans, Poehler\u2019s Bondi was confrontational.<\/p>\n

“Before I don’t answer, I’d like to insult you personally,” Poehler\u2019s Bondi responded.<\/p>\n

Fellow former cast member Tina Fey made a surprise appearance as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, toting an assault-style rifle and making a pitch for applicants to become Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers<\/a> that included questions like, “Do you need a job now?” and “Do you take supplements that you bought at a gas station?”<\/p>\n

“Then buckle up and slap on some Oakleys, big boy: Welcome to ICE,” Fey’s Noem said.<\/p>\n

Poehler, a seven-year “SNL” cast member who left in 2008 to go on to \u201cParks and Recreation\u201d fame, hosted for the third time Saturday.<\/p>\n

Her appearance came on the 50th anniversary of \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d which premiered Oct. 11, 1975.<\/p>\n

“It’s always a dream come true to be here. I remember watching the show in the ’70s, sitting in my house in Burlington, Massachusetts, thinking: ‘I want to be an actress someday \u2014 at least until they invent an AI actress who’s funnier and willing to do full-frontal,'” Poehler said in her monologue.<\/p>\n

She also had a message of hope for those who may feel overwhelmed. \u201cIf there\u2019s a place that feels like home, that you can go back to and laugh with your friends, consider yourself lucky \u2014 and I do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

And she had the last laugh against her imagined AI doppelg\u00e4nger. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd to that little AI robot watching TV right now who wants to be on this stage someday, I say to you: Beep, boop, beep, boop beep beep,\u201d Poehler said. \u201cWhich translates to: You\u2019ll never be able to write a joke, you stupid robot! And I am willing to do full-frontal, but nobody\u2019s asked me, OK?\u201d<\/p>\n

Another skit had a cameo by Aubrey Plaza, a former intern and guest host on “SNL” who also starred on “Parks and Recreation.”<\/p>\n

In a parody of Netflix’s “The Hunting Wives”<\/a> \u2014 introduced as “the straight but lesbian horny Republican murder drama” \u2014 Plaza played “a new new girl” who joined the group. <\/p>\n

After a sexually charged lesson in how to make a mimosa, Plaza revealed she had a girlfriend, prompting the other women to shout, “lesbian!” and immediately pull their guns on her.<\/p>\n

The reunion did not end there. A “Weekend Update” anchor trio of Seth Meyers, Fey and Poehler, who have all been behind the desk, joined current hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che for a quiz show-style battle.<\/p>\n

Role Model was Saturday’s musical guest. His performance of “Sally, When The Wine Runs Out” featured an appearance by Charli XCX<\/a>. <\/p>\n

At the end of the episode, \u201cSNL\u201d paid tribute to Oscar-winning actor Diane Keaton<\/a>, showing a portrait. Keaton died at the age of 79, her daughter said earlier Saturday.<\/p>\n

Sabrina Carpenter, who recently released the album \u201cMan\u2019s Best Friend,\u201d is the host and musical guest of next week’s episode. <\/p>\n

\u201cSNL\u201d airs on NBC, a division of NBCUniversal, which is also the parent company of NBC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pam Bondi vs. the Senate: Round Two. That was the scenario envisaged by \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d on Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-218971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}