'Hold my gun': Tina Fey's Kristi Noem opens up SNL with 'Old Yeller' shutdown joke

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opened SNL as Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi, respectively, and they poked fun at the current drama over the shutdown.

"What if she is, though?" SNL's Noem asks as she enters into the scene of a hearing after someone said Noem was not present. "Hold my gun!"

"The Democrats are even more eager to end the shutdown than our Republican colleagues," said SNL's Mikey Day in his role as a Democratic lawmaker.

"Ha. That makes me laugh more than the end of Old Yeller," said Fey as SNL's Noem. "Dogs don't just get shot. Heroes shoot them."