Tina Fey, left, and Amy Poehler spoof DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi, throughout the Oct. 11, 2026, broadcast of “Saturday Evening Dwell.”
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Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi on Sunday embraced a biting “Saturday Evening Dwell” spoof of her and Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem.
“@Sec_Noem, ought to we recreate this image in Chicago?” the lawyer common wrote in an X submit above a photograph displaying the episode’s host Amy Poehler depicting Bondi and fellow SNL alumna Tina Fey as assault-rifle toting Noem.
“Loving Amy Poehler!” Bondi tweeted.
Poehler in SNL’s chilly open skit of Saturday spoofed Bondi’s contentious testimony final Tuesday earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bondi, throughout that look, stonewalled questions from Democratic senators and insulted them.
“I want you really liked Chicago as a lot as you hate President Trump,” Bondi snapped at Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Unwell., after he requested if the White Home had consulted her upfront of deploying federal troops to that metropolis.
On Saturday, Poehler channeled Bondi, telling the committee, “What’s up, nerds? Livid to be right here.”
Requested if she agreed to inform the reality, the entire fact, and nothing however the fact, Poehler scoffed and mentioned, “No.”
“Earlier than I do not reply, I might prefer to insult you personally,” Poehler mentioned to Mikey Day, the actor taking part in Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal.
When requested by one other “senator” if the FBI had discovered images of President Donald Trump throughout a raid of a residence of the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, Poehler replied, “Sir, I am not even going to dignify that query with a lie.”
Bondi, for months, has confronted criticism for reneging on her promise and people of different Justice Division officers to launch to the general public investigative recordsdata about Epstein.
Bondi wasn’t the one Trump loyalist to be roasted by SNL. When Fey appeared within the opening skit as Noem, she mentioned she was “the rarest kind of individual in Washington, D.C., a brunette that Donald Trump listens to.”
Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi testifies throughout the Senate Judiciary Committee listening to on “Oversight of the Division of Justice” within the Hart Senate Workplace Constructing on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.
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When Day argued that Democrats wished to finish the federal government shutdown, Fey mentioned, “Ha, that makes me chuckle greater than the top of ‘Outdated Yeller.'”
“When the canine will get shot?” Day requested her.
Fey replied, “Canines do not simply get shot. Heroes shoot them.”
Whereas serving as South Dakota governor final yr, Noem revealed in a memoir that she had killed her 14-month-old pet, Cricket, and an unidentified goat, as a result of the canine had an “aggressive persona” and the goat was “nasty and imply.”
As prisoners stand looking from a cell, Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem speaks throughout a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Middle in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025.
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Noem’s memoir was launched as she was being thought-about as a working mate for Trump. She was not chosen for that function.
“I can perceive why some individuals are upset a couple of 20-year-old story of Cricket, one of many working canines at our ranch,” Noem wrote in an X submit final yr.
“Whether or not working the ranch or in politics, I’ve by no means handed on my tasks to anybody else to deal with. Even when it is onerous and painful. I adopted the legislation and was being a accountable mother or father, canine proprietor, and neighbor,” she added.
