This weekend, SNL brought back one of my all time favorite recurring Weekend Update segments – “Really?!” with Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler. The deserving target of this week’s tirade was finance behemoth Goldman Sachs, who got H1N1 (that would be the Swine Flu) vaccines for all their employees, even though there’s a nationwide shortage. In case you were wondering, this means that bankers are more deserving of, well, everything, than we regular folks are.
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As The Office’s US version continues to succeed commercially and with critics, there are more reports of a potential spinoff. Today the very funny and cool Amy Poehler (who just scored a Supporting Actress nomination for her many roles on Saturday Night Live and who is married to the equally funny and cool Will “GOB” Arnett) has been confirmed to star on the show. Comedian Aziz Ansari is the only other actor who has definitely been cast so far, and there’s no definite plot/location/character list for the show. Since both Saturday Night Live and The Office are NBC properties, it makes sense for the network to work with someone they already have a relationship with–after all, Amy’s former SNL cohost (and Baby Mama costar) Tina Fey writes and stars in NBC’s 30 Rock, a project which has worked out really well so far. That said, I’ll miss Amy’s great delivery on Weekend Update, but no matter where she ends up she’ll be funny. And imagine if she played an assistant! We’d be honored to count Amy as one of our own.
