'SNL' will update its Weekend Update

0 Comments | USA TODAY, September, 2006 | by Gary Levin

NEW YORK -- Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers are all about good chemistry. The new anchor duo at NBC's Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, making their debut this weekend (11:30 p.m. live ET/delayed PT), point out that they're both from New England. Both got their starts as comedians in Chicago. And they've already played a team in a popular SNL sketch: Dan and Sally Needler, "the couple that should be divorced." "Seth and I have a very familial, dare I say fraternal, relationship," Poehler says in a joint interview at SNL's offices.

"We have a very similar sensibility." Meyers also "writes great jokes," she adds, "and I'm really looking forward to saying them and getting credit." Meyers has other plans. After Poehler snatched the Update anchor slot from him two years ago in an...

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