--- title: Seth and Amy Do Really to Julius Caesar Pro Trump Protestors description: Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers revived their SNL bit in response to people protesting a Shakespeare performance canonical: https://time.com/4828285/seth-meyers-amy-poehler-on-trump-protesters/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-22T14:49:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:46.462Z og:title: Seth and Amy Have One Question for Pro-Trump Protestors og:description: They revived their SNL bit "Really?!" after people protested Julius Caesar og:url: https://time.com/4828285/seth-meyers-amy-poehler-on-trump-protesters/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7989e2dbef76607d/6988d2d7ab6d77524a6aeaeb/amyseth.jpg?branch=production&width=600&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 600 og:image:height: 338 og:image:alt: AmySeth og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth and Amy Have One Question for Pro-Trump Protestors twitter:description: They revived their SNL bit "Really?!" after people protested Julius Caesar twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7989e2dbef76607d/6988d2d7ab6d77524a6aeaeb/amyseth.jpg?branch=production&width=600&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler Reunite for a Blistering Takedown of Pro-Trump Protesters > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 22, 2017 2:49 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 22, 2017 2:49 PM UTC Seth Meyers was so interested in [people protesting](http://time.com/4822840/shakespeare-in-the-park-donald-trump-protests/) a performance of William Shakespeare’s [_Julius Caesar_ ](http://time.com/4823353/shakespeare-threats-julius-ceasar/?iid=sr-link1)that he had to bring in Amy Poehler as back-up to help him fully express his disbelief. On Wednesday night’s episode of _Late Night_, Meyers and Poehler resurrected the _Saturday Night Live_ bit they perfected on Weekend Update known as “Really?!” in reaction to protestors who [interrupted the climax of a Shakespeare in the Park](http://time.com/4822840/shakespeare-in-the-park-donald-trump-protests/?iid=sr-link2) performance because they said they believed [it normalized](http://time.com/4817893/donald-trump-jr-steve-scalise-shot-twitter/?iid=sr-link6) violence against the right. “Really, protesters?” Poehler said on the show, “You’d wait in line for [Shakespeare in the Park tickets](http://time.com/4814538/bank-of-america-julius-caesar-play/?iid=sr-link3) to a play you hate and watch for three hours just to run on stage to protect someone dressed like the president from getting pretend-stabbed with a fake knife? Really?” She was on a roll: “If you want to change this country you can’t just sit around your house, yelling at the TV. You have to get out there and yell at a play.” Meyers noted that [Julius Caesar](http://time.com/4817390/public-theater-shakespeare-donald-trump-julius-caesar/?iid=sr-link4) and Donald Trump have very little in common, other than the fact that they both have casinos named after them. “Really, you could tell that Caesar wasn’t really Trump because the Senate stabbed him instead of just passing a sh—y health care bill,” he said. “And really, if this portrayal was offensive to anyone, it’s [Caesar](http://time.com/4815178/julius-caesar-trump-shakespeare-play/?iid=sr-link5). Caesar was beloved by the Roman Empire,” Meyers said. “To put it another way, he won the popular vote.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4828285/seth-meyers-amy-poehler-on-trump-protesters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4828285/seth-meyers-amy-poehler-on-trump-protesters/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler Reunite for a Blistering Takedown of Pro-Trump Protesters","datePublished":"2017-06-22T14:49:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:46.462Z","description":"They revived their SNL bit after people protested a Shakespeare play","url":"https://time.com/4828285/seth-meyers-amy-poehler-on-trump-protesters/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Amy Poehler","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7989e2dbef76607d/6988d2d7ab6d77524a6aeaeb/amyseth.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7989e2dbef76607d/6988d2d7ab6d77524a6aeaeb/amyseth.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"AmySeth","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4828285/seth-meyers-amy-poehler-on-trump-protesters/","name":"Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler Reunite for a Blistering Takedown of Pro-Trump Protesters"}}]}] ```