Still Good for a Laugh

I stopped watching Saturday Night Live a looooong time ago, mostly because it wasn't very funny. Then I had kids and fell under their magic spell that makes me sleepy by 9pm. So I was pleasantly surprised last Thursday after watching "The Office" to see that SNL has a "Weekend Update Thursdays" on tv right after and, even more impressive, that it is funny. The Thursday updates will be going on until the elections and cover a variety of topics, of course. I have included a bit about the big government bail-out because it's hilarious and sadly true. Hopefully it will be as amusing in print. Thanks SNL for making me laugh again after all these years!

MEYERS: "At a House Committee hearing on Tuesday it was revealed that after receiving an eighty-five million dollar government bailout, insurance giant AIG spent $440,000 on a luxury retreat for top earners. Which brings us to a segment we like to call 'REALLY WITH SETH AND AMY.'"

MEYERS: "Really, AIG? You went on this retreat only six days after receiving an 85 billion dollar bailout? Really? Even the mafia knows not spend money that soon after a heist. I mean, really."

POEHLER: "And the retreat was planned to recognize AIG's top earners? Really? What does it take to be a top earner at AIG right now? You sell your office furniture on Craigslist?"

MEYERS: "And you spent $150,000 on banquets? Really? Was your waiter Prince? Did you hire robot chefs? You better have because if there were any humans in the kitchen you drank urine."

POEHLER: "And you defended the retreat saying it had been planned before the bailout. That's like going ahead with Grandma's birthday even though grandma died three days ago."

POEHLER: "And Martin Sullivan, receipts show you speant $1,500 at a salon. Really? You spent that much at a salon and didn't fix this?"

MEYERS: "And Really, you had to go there for teambuilding? Here's a cheaper way to do team building. You know all those empty sacks that used to be filled with money? Get in those and race."

POEHLER: "Also the Federal Reserve on Wednesday agreed to provide AIG with a second 37 billion dollar loan on top of the original 85 billion dollar loan. Which brings us to a new segment we like to call, 'Oh My God, Are You Serious?!?'"

POEHLER: "Oh my God, Federal Government, are you serious!?! It's like you gave you your junkie cousin a hundred dollars for rent, ran into him at the dog track, and then gave him another 37 billion dollars. I mean Oh my God!"

MEYERS: "And also, really?"

DON PARDO: "This has been 'Oh my God, Are You Serious?!?' within a 'Really with Seth & Amy.'"