'Saturday Night Live' highlights: Tracy Morgan returns, boozin' Barbie, party douchebags

As Tracy Morgan points out in his "Saturday Night Live" monologue, returning as a host means that he gets to be in a lot more skits than when he was a cast member. Indeed, in the March 14th edition, he certainly gets a ton of face time, including this silly opening sequence ...

Back for the second week after a leave to have her baby, Amy Poehler signed off Saturday Night Live for good Saturday, giving a tearful farewell at the end of Weekend Update only to be obscured by a sort of tasteless gag involving blind New York Governor David Patterson.

We're not exactly sure that we needed any more proof that SNL cast member Fred Armisen's take on Barack Obama is seriously lacking. Still, we're more than happy to have had Will Ferrell on our TVs again.

The goal when any politician appears on Saturday Night Live is to show that he or she can take a joke. So consider it mission accomplished for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin last night.