After a week in which talent agencies, the MPA and SAG-AFTRA’s Sean Astin called out OpenAI’s video generation app, Amy Poehler used her opening monologue in Saturday night live to denounce the existential threat to Hollywood.
“Before we start the show, I just wanted to say one thing,” Poehler said. “I know it may feel like times are really hard right now, and in some ways they always have been and always will be. So I’ll just say this: There’s a place that feels like home that you can come back to and laugh with your friends. Consider yourself lucky, and I do. And to that little AI robot watching TV right now who wants to be on this stage someday, I say be boop be boop be boop… which translates to: you’ll never will you be able to write a joke, you are stupid robot!”
Poehler also noted in his opening that 50 years ago today, the first episode of SNL went on air. “This episode was hosted by George Carlin and, like George Carlin, I am extremely stoned.”
“It’s always a dream come true to be here,” she continued. “I remember watching the show in the ’70s, sitting in my house in Burlington, Massachusetts, thinking, ‘I want to be an actress someday, at least until they invent an AI actress who’s funnier and willing to do full frontal.’”
“But 50, wow! You know what’s cool about turning 50? You start to not care what people think. And that’s what’s so great about it SNL. She obviously stopped caring.”
Poehler ended her monologue by saying that she was always willing to do “full frontal, but no one asked me.”
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