Poehler and Fey: End the Experiment.

This is a post about American comedy.

From 2000 to 2004, Tina Fey and giggling fool Jimmy Fallon anchored Saturday Night Live's topical "Weekend Update" slot. When Fallon left to ply his charming brand of unprofessionalism elsewhere, SNL supremo Lorne Michaels was forced to reselect a team. My readers, the new team is no good.

Lorne kept Fey on, and added Amy Poehler. Poehler is fab. Poelher I like. I have no problem with Poelher. But herein lies the petard by which Fey has hoisted herself. So central to the success of the segment was Fey and Fallon's "sexy chemistry", that all I can see in 2005's sassy, oestrogen-heavy partnership is its absence.

Here's the solution, Lorne.

• Eliminate Fey.
• Install Seth Myers.

Poehler and Myers complement one another in the following ways:

1. They are gawky.
2. They are from Boston.
3. He is a man and she is a woman.
4. Look at this clip.
   

True, Fallon/Fey worked on a chalk n' cheese level. But for next season, while Fey ejects her baby, let's have a pair who are more traditional. More "cheddar n' cheese".