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Saturday Night Live has given us loads of issues all through the years. But the one which I’m most grateful for is the working relationship between author Mike Schur and Amy Poehler. Their friendship from Saturday Night Live is likely one of the causes that we acquired Parks and Recreation as a tv present, and so we followers owe rather a lot to the sketch comedy collection. This leads us to an amazing bit on this week’s present that felt like a present for these of us who miss Leslie Knope and April Ludgate in our lives.
Aubrey Plaza was internet hosting Saturday Night Live and completely killing it when Weekend Update started. Typically, the hosts do not take part on this sketch, which is often frequented by characters the forged has created—for probably the most half, the one time the host is there’s if it’s a former forged member or somebody who actually needs to do one thing with Colin Jost and Michael Che. This time although, Plaza was there as Parks and Rec worker April Ludgate and speaking about what it was like working in native authorities.
She appeared disinterested within the questions, as April typically is, and mentioned that Jost ought to ask these questions of her boss Leslie Knope as an alternative. In that second, Poehler returned to Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update desk not as herself however as Leslie and it was completely good.
Asking questions in regards to the Joe Biden video from the start of the present (as a result of famously, Leslie Knope loves Biden) and simply speaking with April, the section was a nod to followers of Parks and Recreation and it was such a present to them—I might know, I named my cat Benjamin Wyatt. The collection ended again in 2015 and whereas we have had a couple of moments of the forged coming collectively for fundraisers or for the at-home particular throughout lockdown, that is the primary time we have actually seen Poehler and Plaza collectively as Leslie and April in a really very long time.
So we live for these little reunions. Poehler not too long ago posed for an image with Adam Scott and broke the web, she’s finished it once more by showing by Plaza’s aspect not as soon as however twice on this episode of SNL. The level is: We all nonetheless love Parks and Recreation and seeing Plaza and Poehler collectively felt like coming residence. Made that a lot better when Poehler did a Weekend Update joke as Leslie Knope. One she accepted of although as a result of she thought some had been “too imply” to do.
You can watch the sketch down beneath, and make sure to take a look at the remainder of our protection from final night time’s episode of SNL.