See Tina Fey and Amy Poehler return to Weekend Update on SNL

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler returned to Saturday Night Live last night, proving that sometimes the best way to invigorate a show is to take a trip back through space and time to play some of the old sketches that really, really worked. Yup, it’s 2008 Clinton, played by Poehler. Present-day Clinton is adept at disses, too, at one point calling her Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders a “human Birkenstock”.

Fey and Poehler may not have won at the box office, but they did produce strong ratings, boosting “SNL” to its second-best metered-market household rating in nearly two years.

Similarly, when 2015 Clinton asks past Clinton to “pound to that”, meaning fist-bump, past Clinton is puzzled.

Let me say that whenever Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are on TV together I make sure that I clear my schedule to watch. SNL cast member Aidy Bryant even raps, highlighting the girl power behind working mothers, with lyrics like ‘A queen ain’t a queen just for sitting on a throne/ She need a whole damn crew/ She can’t do it alone. Too true, Aidy, too true.

It is at this point that Fey arrives on the scene to put a damper of the merriment, seeming there just to reprise the ditsy image of Palin that contributed so heavily to the character assassination of the former governor of Alaska – an image for which Fey was elevated to goddess-like status by the left. Looking dazed, she chirps: “Well, what the heck!” She laments Clinton’s 2008 loss, remarking: “Oh, you poor thing”.

“Trust me. You’ll thank me later”, she explains.

“Of state”, the two Clintons retort.