Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers Recall the Only Time They Came Close to Fighting on ‘Weekend Update’

Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers Recall the Only Time They Came Close to Fighting on ‘Weekend Update’

I feel like the most uh tense our uh uh chemistry I ever had was uh mornings update mornings bagel times. Yeah, cuz someone had pre-split the jokes and then there were a few like left over that we both wanted and I feel like there was a real dance of interesting. I would say that I thought I would have hidden that but that’s probably true. I think we were like uh are you going to take that joke? H I wonder who takes the good joke here. Um my here’s how I saw it from you. It’s like hm that feels like a Amy joke. Do you want it? I’m like and I be and I’d be like I mean I would love it. It would mean a lot to me as a friend. I’m asking for it. You’re like it’s a real Amy joke. I just feel like it’s going to kind of flop. And then I would go I hex this joke. I would hex it. Yeah. You would hex it. I would curse you and I curse you. And when I when if I the few times you let me have it, you would be off camera while I was telling it going thumbs down. Um I don’t remember us ever fighting at all. That was it. It was just that like where we did we did argue. I would say that one of the things like I don’t think we ever got into a we never were but we like to I mean look really came out of that right like this. We like to be frustrated and irritated. And I don’t mind being frustrated and irritated with people that I’m close to. That is like a way of My favorite thing is when you and I feel very differently about a movie or a TV show. Yeah.

#AmyPoehler and #SethMeyers looked back on their “Weekend Update” days on #SNL during her “Good Hang” podcast, sharing that their only real tension came on Saturday mornings—when the jokes were pre-split and they’d both eye the same ones.

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