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The former anchors faced off against current &34;Update&34; duo Colin Jost and Michael Che. SNL alums Tina Fey and Seth Meyers join Amy Poehler for jokeoff with

The former anchors faced off against current "Update" duo Colin Jost and Michael Che.

SNL alums Tina Fey and Seth Meyers join Amy Poehler for joke-off with 'Weekend Update' anchors

The former anchors faced off against current "Update" duo Colin Jost and Michael Che.

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Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Seth Meyers on 'Saturday Night Live' Oct. 11. Credit:

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It was an old school vs. new school brawl on this weekend's *Saturday Night Live*.**

Colin Jost and Michael Che's humorous rundown of the week's trending stories — the show's beloved, long-running "Weekend Update" segment — took on a Sharks vs. Jets dynamic when host Amy Poehler crashed the first punchline.

"A woman in Tennessee broke a hospital record after giving birth to a 13-pound baby. It's the first baby to ever bust out saying, 'Oh yeah!'" Jost began, as a graphic of the Kool-Aid man flashed, evoking his widely memed motto. Before Jost could pass the baton to his longtime cohost, Poehler, who previously cohosted the segment from 2004-2008, cut in.

"A woman has a 13-pound baby, and that's the best you can do?" she impishly mocked Che. "You think you can do better?" Che shot back. "I know I can! You know what this means? It's time for a big old-fashioned 'Weekend Update' joke-off," Poehler announced, producing shiny red buzzers for each competitor to smash after delivering their best riff.**

Tina Fey and Seth Meyers, two of Poehler's three previous "Weekend Update" co-anchors (Horatio Sanz being the third), then leapt into the frame. From there, the five titans of late-night comedy traded punchlines on the 13-pound baby set-up, to varying degrees of success with the studio audience.

"My first wife and my second wife," Poehler said, gesturing toward Fey, with whom she co-hosted "Weekend Update" from 2004-2006, and Meyers, who shared duties with Poehler from 2006-2008 before manning the "Update" desk solo for the following five years.

Poehler led off the battle of wits with this zinger: "A woman gave birth to a 13-pound baby that was so big he slapped the doctor on his ass."

Fey followed up: "A woman gave birth to a 13-pound baby, and the baby's name is 'AHHHH!'"

Then Meyers: "A woman gave birth to a 13-pound baby. Damn, did she give birth to it, or did it drive out?"**

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Che and Jost then wrested control of the joke-off, driving the melee into starkly raunchier territory.

"Here's a fun fact," Che led off. "The second the baby was out, the woman zipped around the room like a deflated balloon."

Jost followed up: "A woman gave birth to a 13-pound baby. The baby's nickname is 'Magician,' because it basically sawed its mother in half."

Fey harkened back to the confrontationally political bent of her tenure with both Poehler and, before her, Jimmy Fallon, during the Bush presidency, by joking, "A woman in Tennessee gave birth to a 13-pound baby because it's Tennessee and the baby was also pregnant."

Poehler ended the brawl fair and square, whipping the audience into uproarious laughter with the joke, "A woman in Tennessee broke a hospital record after giving birth to a 13-pound baby. The record was for loosest vagina, and was previously held by me!"**

Michael Che and Colin Jost on 'Saturday Night Live' in 2025.

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The episode fell on the 50th anniversary of *Saturday Night Live, *which premiered on Oct. 11, 1975, with host George Carlin. Created by Lorne Michaels, *SNL* launched the careers of comedy superstars like Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, and the late John Belushi and Gilda Radner, all part of the original cast known as the Not Ready for Primetime Players.

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The first "Weekend Update" aired on that very first episode. Created by season 1 star Chevy Chase and writers Herb Sargent and Al Franken — the same Al Franken that would later serve as a Democratic senator to the state of Minnesota — the segment has followed a roughly unchanged formula for the past 50 years. But it has cycled through numerous titles ("SNL NewsBreak" and "Saturday Night News," for example) and cohosts, including Che, Jost, Poehler, Meyers, Fey, Jane Curtin, Norm Macdonald, and Cecily Strong.**

*Saturday Night Live* airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock.**

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