SNL’s Weekend Update Tackles Santorum Birth Control Stance With REALLY!??

There are few things we look forward to more than a surprise visit by Amy Poehler to “Saturday Night Live.” Last night, however, she exceeded even our wildest expectations with a Santorum-focused comedic smackdown.

Santorum, who has, well, some controversial views on women’s reproductive rights, has had quite a week. Perhaps most damaging to his campaign (depending on your point of view, that is) was when his billionaire backer Foster Friess joked that women should just stick two Bayer aspirin between their knees as birth control. Hilarious.

And Seth Meyers and Poehler weren’t going to let that one slide. In an epic edition of “REALLY!?! With Seth and Amy,” Meyers joked:

“Really, men have to be smarter when they talk about birth control. Foster Friess the billionaire backer of Rick Santorum joked that when he was young, women held an aspirin between their knees for birth control — good one. But do you really want to start a discussion of health care with ‘when I was young’? When you were young people died of Polio.”

Also, the birth control pill didn’t exist when Friess was young.

Then, Poehler delivered what may have been the funniest line of the night:

“Now, later in the week Friess apologized for his comments. Well, we’d love to accept your apology, Foster, but you made a mistake. And now you’re going to have to live with that mistake for the rest of your life.”

Watch the whole thing below — it’s well worth your time.

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