After a rocky premiere , Saturday Night Live needed to give us some reassurance that season 51 (and the newest permutation of the cast) wouldn’t be all duds. Enter Amy Poehler, a reliable (but not overused) choice to anchor a confident episode. No disrespect to Bad Bunny, who has his charms in this format, but he isn’t a sketch performer like Poehler. It’s only fitting that she host the show on the 50th anniversary of its first-ever episode.

Poehler isn’t here to promote a new movie or show. If anything, she’s here because of Good Hang with Amy Poehler , her podcast that took off earlier this year. “That’s right, I am a podcaster now, and if that’s not a recession indicator, I don’t know what is,” she joked self-deprecatingly during a short, pleasant monologue, reminiscing about her

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