Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler brought back one of their classic ‘SNL’ bits on ‘Late Night’
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When Amy Poehler stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers Wednesday to promote her upcoming film The House, she and Meyers also reenacted one of their classic Saturday Night Live bits.
Poehler and Meyers served as co-hosts of SNL‘s “Weekend Update” from 2006 to 2008. On Late Night, they dedicated an edition of their long-running “Really?!? With Seth & Amy” segment to the right-wing protesters who have disrupted the Public Theater’s production of the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar in New York City. The play uses a Donald Trump-like stand-in for Caesar.
“Really, protesters? Let me get this straight,” Poehler said. “You waited in line to get tickets to a play you already hated. And then you watched it for three hours. And then you ran on stage to protest, but not the president, but someone who was dressed like the president, from getting pretend stabbed with a fake knife.
“Really?” the Burlington native continued. “I commend you. If you want to change this country, you just can’t sit around your house, yelling at the TV. You have to get out there and yell at a play.”
In classic “Really?!?” style, Meyers picked up right where Poehler left off.
“And really, if this portrayal was offensive to anyone, it’s Caesar,” Meyers said. “Caesar was beloved by the Roman Empire. To put it another way, he won the popular vote.”
Meyers had some critical words for the Public Theater, as well.
“I don’t think it was offensive to have a Donald Trump Caesar, but it was a little hack-y,” Meyers said. “I mean, really, if you want to see a Shakespearean drama based on Trump, just watch CNN.”
Meyers and Poehler rounded out the segment by discussing conservative activist Jack Posobiec’s statement that he planned to hold “a production of the ‘Salem Witch Trials’ where Hillary [Clinton] is burned at the stake.” Meyers mocked Posobiec for not realizing that there is no play called “The Salem Witch Trials” and that Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, was “an allegory about McCarthyism.”
“There, now you have three things to Google,” Meyers said.
“Guess what, bro? You can’t burn Hillary at the stake,” Poehler concluded. “She’s already been burned twice. 2008 and 2016. My b**** is Teflon now!”
