Amy Poehler watches her drunken SNL impersonation of Jenna Bush Hager together with the Today co-host: 'I'm Sweating' | - The Times of India
Jenna Bush Hager recently joined Amy Poehler on a walk down memory lane.
Poehler, 53, appeared on Monday, February 10, and co-hosted the show's fourth hour with Bush Hager, who used the occasion to remind the comic of a Saturday Night Live comedy from two decades ago in which Poehler impersonated her.
Bush Hager claimed she believed Poehler and Tina Fey's 2005 sketch, in which they played Jenna and her twin sister Barbara Bush, was "excellent" and then got the comedian "sweating" as she played a clip from it live.
"I'm totally sweating," Poehler said as she watched her impersonation while sitting next to Jenna.
Jenna enquired if it was "weird to watch that" while sitting next to her, and Poehler complimented the host on "having such a good sense of humour."
"We had a great time doing the sketch. We didn't come too hard," she added of her and Fey's mimicry, to which Jenna concurred, stating, "No, you didn't come too hard."
Nonetheless, Poehler acknowledged, "It's not always easy to sit next to the person that you impersonated."
Jenna stated that Poehler and Fey "got a lot right" in the sketch, which Fey created, but added that she was already a teacher in Washington, D.C. when it aired.
"You may assume, 'Oh, she's making fun of college Jenna,' but I had already graduated. I walked across the stage, and I was a third-grade teacher in Washington, D.C.
While the Today with Jenna & Friends anchor was familiar with the sketch, she was unaware of the latter twist, which was a joke about her and her twin having a "twin language" that their father George W. Bush "couldn't figure out."
"Oh my God, I'm dying, can we watch the whole thing?" she pleaded after Poehler said that, but they decided to have Jenna view it when she got home.
"It is weird, right?" she asked Poehler about discussing the sketch with her again.
"It is really weird, but that is kind of part of the job of SNL is you do end up sometimes standing next to the person that you're impersonating," she remarked. "But thank you for having a good sense of humour about it and it was really fun to do."