Saturday Night Live has become a well-oiled machine of bringing up some of the greatest names in comedy. And with SNL 50 fully finished in the 2025 TV guide books, we’ve really seen it all. The historic Saturday night show’s stars have had plenty of infamous Studio 8H moments, sketches that went awry, and certainly some that didn’t age well. Amy Poehler weighs in on the dated angle and shares her feelings about it all.
The Parks and Rec star had fellow alum and pal Will Forte as a guest on her podcast, Good Hang with Amy Poehler. There, the two shared some good laughs and covered a lot of ground, including the NBC reunion limited series (available to stream with a Peacock subscription), which highlighted this topic of aged skits. Poehler highlighted how the special showcased decades worth of young comedians on the show playing people out of their range, in her words:
They had that segment, which was like, ‘Here’s all the ways we got things wrong.’ And they showed way inappropriate casting for people. We all played people that we should not have played.
Inside Out actress detailed was one of the more tangible elements audiences could recognize, since many of the personas made it to live TV.
30 Rock icon who’s retiring), as the show and alumni like Poehler continue to move past those bits that didn’t age well.