Jimmy Fallon's SNL Return Includes Guest Appearances By Poehler

It’s easy to be jaded about the holidays. It’s not unlike the temptation to feel weary and blasé about Saturday Night Live. Both seemed to feel more special when we were younger, didn’t they? But you would have to be a Grinch with a heart (and funny bone) two sizes too small not to have gotten into the spirit of last night’s joyous, hilarious, and often times touching, instant classic episode of Saturday Night Live. It encompassed all the things that make the holidays — and SNL — so wonderful when done right: It reunited old friends, brought back fond memories, and made us believe there was a little bit of magic in the air.
Of course, there may be no star better suited to spread that kind of joy to Studio 8H than Jimmy Fallon, who hosted for the first time since leaving the show as a cast member. After all, the Late Night host brings a free-spirited sense of fun to everything he does. Jaded is simply not on the guy’s radar at Christmas or any other time of the year, for that matter.


The night kicked off with the cold open, which checked in on Sully and Denise. Theirs is an eternal love, and they’re still just as passionate for one another as they were back when Fallon and Dratch were regulars on the show. You may have noticed that the politically incorrect phrase "you're retarded," which Denise was once fond of saying, never made it into the sketch, however “flame retardant” was sort of used in its place at one point. You’ll find that video below, along with both of Michael Buble’s performance, as well as the excellent moment during “Weekend Update” when Fallon and Tina Fey joined fellow former Weekend Update team Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers for a good old-fashioned joke-off. As much as I look forward to Seth Meyer’s solo commentary each week, it was great to see these old teams back in action and as quippy as ever.


And if celebrity impersonations are your thing, you may enjoy the Today Show spoof or the Buble Duets.