Overview

• Hosting on the show’s exact 50th anniversary, Amy Poehler played Attorney General Pam Bondi in a Senate-hearing cold open built around roast-style nonanswers.
• Tina Fey made a surprise entrance as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, punctuating the sketch with a mock ICE recruitment pitch.
• Poehler, Fey and Seth Meyers reunited at the Weekend Update desk for a rapid-fire “joke-off” against current anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che.
• Musical guest Role Model made his SNL debut with “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out,” featuring a walk-on by Charli XCX.
• The broadcast included a brief on-air tribute to Diane Keaton following reports of her death earlier in the day.