leslie knope and april ludgate stopped by the weekend update desk on saturday night liveduring her first hosting gig aubrey plaza made an appearance as the moody but lovable april ludgate in order to encourage young people to get involved in their local government when colin jost asked plaza to elaborate she replied i dont know youre annoying me just ask my old boss leslie knopepoehler who used to host weekend update during her tenure on saturday night live swiftly joined plaza as the overly optimistic leslie knope in the nbc series which ran for seven seasons leslie serves as the deputy director of the parks and recreation department of the fictional town of pawnee indiana april starts out as an intern for leslie in season one before eventually becoming a fulltime employee and eventually moving to washington to continue working for leslieapril ludgate and leslie knope from pawnee indiana pictwittercom3fxz8cwpb1january 22 2023see morehow much fun is it working here she asked jost and michael che do you guys just sit around cracking each other up all day i used to watch this when seth meyers did it by himself with no one else and he made it look really easypoehler asked if she in character could read a weekend update joke settling on one with a punny cheerful headline the clip has been viewed over 13 million times on youtube and 2 million times on twitterfor more check out our list of the best tv shows of all time or check out our list of the most underrated comedies to stream right now