Live from New York, it’s a Saturday Night Live reunion. On Tuesday night, Amy Poehler dropped by Late Night with Seth Meyers and joined her old Weekend Update co-anchor in a rousing rendition of their thought-provoking, question-asking segment “Really!?! with Seth and Amy.” This time, the duo targeted billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, who are locked in a space-going arms race.
Meyers welcomed an auburn-haired Poehler into his studio—which is still sans audience—before launching into the segment. “Really, billionaires?” he asked. “This is what you’re going to do with the unprecedented fortunes and influence, drag race to outer space?”
Poehler picked up as if no time has passed since they shared the Weekend Update desk, lamenting these newfangled wealth hoarders. “I miss the old billionaires,” she said. “The ones that wore top hats and ate caviar with their hands. Now all these new guys do is intermittent fasting and krav maga so they can dodge all those taxes.”
Poehler went on to (accurately) note that women are not going to space because “we have shit to do down here,” while Meyers pointed out that Branson didn’t really venture very deep when he launched over the weekend. “You didn’t go to outer space,” he said. “You just went pretty high for a plane. You went to outer sky.” Poehler kept up the salient observations by shedding light on the phallic…
