Aubrey Plaza and Amy Poehler reprised their ParksAndRec roles as April Ludgate and Leslie Knope for SNL’s Weekend Update. Watch the sketch here:
Saturday Night Live has given us a lot of things throughout the years. But the one that I am most grateful for is the working relationship between writer Mike Schur and Amy Poehler. Their friendship from Saturday Night Live is one of the reasons that we got Parks and Recreation as a television show, and so we fans owe a lot to the sketch comedy series. This leads us to a great bit on this week's show that felt like a gift for those of us who miss Leslie Knope and April Ludgate in our lives.
Aubrey Plaza was hosting Saturday Night Live and absolutely killing it when Weekend Update began. Typically, the hosts don't participate in this sketch, which is usually frequented by characters the cast has created—for the most part, the only time the host is there is if it is a former cast member or someone who really wants to do something with Colin Jost and Michael Che.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY She seemed disinterested in the questions, as April often is, and said that Jost should ask these questions of her boss Leslie Knope instead. In that moment, Poehler returned to Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update desk not as herself but as Leslie and it was absolutely brilliant.
So we are living for these little reunions. Poehler recently posed for a picture with Adam Scott and broke the internet, she's done it again by appearing by Plaza's side not once but twice in this episode of SNL. The point is: We all still love Parks and Recreation and seeing Plaza and Poehler together felt like coming home. Made that much better when Poehler did a Weekend Update joke as Leslie Knope. One she approved of though because she thought some were "too mean" to do.
You can watch the sketch down below, and be sure to check out the rest of our coverage from last night's episode of SNL.
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