Live from New York, it’s a Saturday Night Live reunion. On Tuesday night, Amy Poehler dropped by Late Night With Seth Meyers and joined her old Weekend Update co-anchor in a rousing rendition of their thought-provoking, question-asking segment “Really!?! with Seth and Amy.” This time, the duo targeted billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, who are locked in a space-going arms race.
Meyers welcomed an auburn-haired Poehler into his studio—which is still sans audience—before launching into the segment. “Really, billionaires?” he asked. “This is what you’re going to do with the unprecedented fortunes and influence, drag race to outer space?”
Poehler picked up as if no time has passed since they shared the Weekend Update desk, lamenting these newfangled wealth hoarders. “I miss the old billionaires,” she said. “The ones that wore top hats and ate caviar with their hands. Now all these new guys do is intermittent fasting and krav maga so they can dodge all those taxes.”
Poehler went on to (accurately) note that women are not going to space because “we have shit to do down here,” while Meyers pointed out that Branson didn’t really venture very deep when he launched over the weekend. “You didn’t go to outer space,” he said. “You just went pretty high for a plane. You went to outer sky.” Poehler kept up the salient observations by shedding light on the phallic subtext that connects billionaire’s favorite toys. “The rockets are dicks. The skyscrapers are dicks,” she said. “I mean, even Freud is like, ‘You don’t need me for this, right?’”
Due to the lack of a studio audience, most of the laughs came from Poehler and Meyers themselves, cracking themselves and each other up as they riffed. Meyers asked an all-too-real series of questions about whether the billionaires know something about our planet that’s prompting them to take to the skies, while Poehler equated the concept of space to a one-star Michelin restaurant people can’t stop raving about. “Dude, you haven’t been to space? You’ve got to go. They have an apricot salmon foam to die for,” she quipped.
In the end, the pair ditched the foam to talk about “space holes,” which Poehler fears the billionaires may create accidentally. “They’re gonna go up to space. They’re going to be showing it off, and they’re going to accidentally poke a hole in space with their elbow. And we’re all going to get sucked up and the aliens will get in,” Poehler said, to a bemused Meyers. “Have we learned nothing from Independence Day? Really?” Sadly, it appears we have not.
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