With two Saturday Night Live legends reuniting to give them the parody treatment this weekend, Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem have shared their reactions.
Following host Amy Poehler and special guest Tina Fey‘s cold-open impressions of the pair, they’ve since responded to the sketch, with one making light of the current militarization of Chicago and the other blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.
“Sec_Noem, should we recreate this picture in Chicago? Loving Amy Poehler!” wrote Attorney General Bondi on X, sharing a screenshot of the comedians posing, with Fey’s Noem toting an assault rifle.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem commented on the sketch in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. “SNL is absolutely right — the Democrats’ shutdown does need to end!” she said.
Saturday’s cold open came after testimony took place on Capitol Hill this past week, with the former Sunshine State AG repeatedly rebuffing Democratic senators over citizen-accosting ICE and American troops in U.S. cities, Jeffrey Epstein, the indictment of ex-FBI director James Comey and the current shutdown. Or, as Poehler said in the opener, “the DOJ has many ongoing operations, and we’re moving like Kash Patel’s eyeballs very quickly in multiple directions at once.”
In one of the fastest-moving and leanest cold opens in many an SNL, Fey’s Noem exclaimed, after she tossed her machine gun aside: “I’m the rarest type of person in Washington D.C., a brunette that Donald Trump listens to.”
Harking back to Noem’s memoir referencing dog killing that likely saw ex-South Dakota governor dropped from Trump’s VP short list last year, tonight’s skit saw Fey declaring that the idea Democrats want the shutdown over “makes me laugh more than the end of Old Yeller. … Dogs don’t just get shot. Heroes shoot them.”
