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SNL’s Michael Che Gets Groans for Roasting Taylor Swift Fans
Kenan Thompson managed to work a cursory mention of Tyre Nichols’ killing by Memphis police officers into Saturday Night Live’s unrelated cold open sketch this week. And Colin Jost and Michael Che seemed to agree that the biggest news story of the week was just too bleak to joke about on “Weekend Update.”
Instead, the pair focused on Facebook welcoming Donald Trump back on its platform after a two-year ban—“this time they’ll put guardrails in place to keep him under control, which I think is the same thing they say every time they try to reopen Jurassic Park”—and the search for classified documents in the homes of former presidents.
Then came this joke from Che about a hearing on Capitol Hill this week: “During the Senate hearings investigating Live Nation and their monopoly on concert ticket sales, fans of Taylor Swift protested outside the Capitol. Aww, that’s sweet. And only two years after their dads were there.”
A photo of right-wing insurrectionists appeared on the screen as the live audience groaned in response—and Jost gleefully took in his co-anchor’s punchline.
From there, Jost moved on to a joke about Florida Senator Rick Scott vowing to finish the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and name it after Donald Trump. “Even though most things named after Donald Trump are complete failures,” he joked as Donald Trump Jr.’s photo appeared on the screen beside him.
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‘SNL’s Weekend Update Tackles Sydney Sweeney Family Saga & Herschel Walker Controversies – Deadline
Colin Jost and Michael Che got right into poking fun at politics in Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment.
Jost and Che also joked about Russia, Hurricane Ian, President Biden, Ted Cruz, Ginni Thomas, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lizzo’s flute playing, and the CIA’s plans to launch a new podcast as part of the classic news-desk skit.
New cast member Michael Longfellow was front and center, making his Weekend Update debut as the child of conservatives. He was asked for his thoughts on the backlash that Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney faced for allegedly having Trump-supporting family members.
“Well, my family is from Arizona, so if you can get in trouble for what your parents think — uh, it’s been a good run,” he said.
Longfellow added that his “dad is anti-Covid vaccine” as “he doesn’t really believe in the virus” adding he thinks it’s “crazy because every anti-vax article he sends me gives my computer 10 of them.”
Jost and Che were also joined by James Austin Johnson and Kenan Thompson on the desk as Mitch McConnell and Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker.
It was also Johnson’s first ever “Weekend Update” appearance.
Che pointed out some of the questionable statements the former football player has made such as “Our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air, so when China gets our good air, the bad air got to move.”
“I’ll slow down so you can understand,” Thompson’s Walker said. “We all know air, right? Air Bud, Air Jordan… Erin Brokevich. Science don’t understand. Everybody talking about climate, but what we really should be focusing on is putting Hawaii closer…. bring that climate over here.”
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Che then questioned Johnson’s McConnell about the qualifications Walker has to be running for a Senate seat, saying that he plays football and the state of “Georgia likes football.”
The jokes got increasingly more chaotic after Che asked Walker if he had any actual proposals with “BBQ Tuesdays” and another one to “create a department of Instagram booty” to battle the girls “faking their cake.”
SNL’s Michael Che Earns Groans Mocking Biden’s Vow to Put Black Woman on SCOTUS
After reporting the news that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire from the bench in June, Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che joked, “‘We thank Justice Breyer for years of upholding the rights of every American,’ said liberals who have been tweeting, ‘Retire, bitch’ for the last year.”
“I sympathize with Breyer because I get those same tweets every Saturday around this time,” the “Weekend Update” anchor added. Then he told a joke that demonstrated why.
“President Biden promised to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court,” Che said to cheers from the live audience. Those cheers turned to groans when he delivered the punchline: “But I hope it’s not because he wants to sniff a new type of hair.”
Looking around, he added, “This is why I get those tweets.”
From there, Che moved on to a joke about Senator Mitch McConnell warning Biden not to outsource his Supreme Court pick to the “radical left.” that would likely sit better with viewers. “Coincidentally, a ‘radical left’ is also what McConnell takes to purposely run over stray dogs.”
Colin Jost, meanwhile, focused most of his jokes on the Trump family. “Ukrainian officials are saying the repeated warnings of invasion are just causing panic and that ‘panic is the sister of failure,’ which is exactly what Lorne told us to do this show in a blizzard,” he said. “Also, am I wrong? I thought Ivanka was the sister of failure,” Jost added as Eric and Donald Trump Jr.’s photos appeared on screen.
Later, he noted that “three items put up for auction by Melania Trump failed to reach the opening bid of $250,000,” adding, “but Melania is no stranger to finding out something isn’t worth as much as she thought.”
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SNL’s Ted Cruz Begs Trump to ‘Hit Me, Choke Me, Spit in My Face’
Saturday Night Live kicked off this week’s show with Kate McKinnon’s Laura Ingraham, who used her Fox News platform to trash President Joe Biden’s first year in office.
“Can we all admit it’s a disaster?” she asked her viewers. “Inflation’s out of control, gas is at $19 a gallon and the green M&M has been canceled just for being a whore!”
Her first guest of the night was Aidy Bryant’s Ted Cruz, who began by explaining, “My beard is like January 6th. Shocking at first, but sadly it’s been normalized.” From there, he followed up his humiliating appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show by sending a message directly to Trump. “Donald, if you’re watching, I love you, baby,” he said. “You are the king. Honestly, hit me.”
When Ingraham asked if he really wanted Trump to hit him, he replied, “Oh, I don’t know. Hit me, choke me, spit in my face. I just want to stay in the mix.”
Then, after shouting out some of her last remaining sponsors—including “COVID Negs: The COVID test that’s guaranteed to be negative even if you have it. COVID Negs: I’m going to your wedding”—Ingraham welcomed Pete Davidson’s Novak Djokovic, Ego Nwodim’s Candace Owens and finally James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump
“It’s wonderful to be here,” Trump told her. “I’m back like Tiger King 2. You had fun the first time, and now you’re like, ‘How are more people from this not in jail yet?’” He then presented his very own Wordle-based rant that made its way from vaccines to John Mayer to How I Met Your Father.
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Tom Hanks and Tina Fey Rescue SNL’s COVID-Stricken 2021 Finale
The situation at 30 Rock’s Studio 8H was a fluid one fraught with uncertainty.
Around 3 p.m. Saturday, the New York Post reported that there had been a COVID outbreak of sorts among the Saturday Night Live cast, with “a set insider” telling the paper “that ‘four actors’ have tested positive for coronavirus—and ‘three others’ have called out because they are now ‘fearful’ about coming to NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Center, where the weekly sketch show is filmed in Midtown.”
SNL subsequently announced that there would be “no live audience” and the sketch-comedy show would be operating with “a limited cast and crew” due to the Omicron variant’s ravaging of New York City, resulting in a record number of daily COVID cases (9,822—compared to around 900 cases a day in early November).
If that weren’t enough, the night’s musical guest Charli XCX wrote that she was told around 3 p.m.—when the Post story ran—that her “segment of the show wouldn’t be able to go ahead for everyone’s safety” and had to be canceled.
All of this begged the questions: Isn’t Lorne Michaels, who still oversees every aspect of the show, 77 years old? Shouldn’t we be protecting our newly crowned Sexiest Man Paul Rudd? Is it responsible for SNL to be going on at all? Nevertheless, they persisted.
The Season 47 finale episode of 2021 kicked things off with a previously recorded monologue by Tom Hanks, who took the stage sporting his Five-Timers Club smoking jacket—a club started by Hanks, the first person to host SNL five times.
“Thank you, I’m Tom Hanks. Thank you, surviving crewmembers,” he began. “Tonight, everyone at Saturday Night Live planned to do our big Christmas show and induct a new member into our Five-Timers Club, but COVID came early this year. So, in the interest of safety we do not have an audience, and we sent home our cast and most of our crew. But I came here from California. If you think I was going to fly 3,000 miles and not be on TV, well, you got another thing comin’!”
He then brought out Tina Fey, another member of the Five-Timers Club. “As you know, I started the Five-Timers Club,” offered Hanks, to which Fey responded, “Oh, like you started COVID?”
Then the two—with the help of SNL’s longest-serving cast member ever, Kenan Thompson—inducted Rudd into the Five-Timers Club.
“Look at that, it’s beautiful!” exclaimed Rudd of the smoking jacket.
A video message from Steve Martin came next—mistakenly identifying Rudd as Hanks, while dissing his Only Murders in the Building co-star Martin Short for being a mere three-timer—followed by sketches “taped earlier in the week” along with some old favorites.
So, it looks like SNL did end up happening after all. Sort of.
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‘SNL’s Weekend Update Tackles Rittenhouse Verdict, Latest Fallout From Chappelle Controversy, Mel Gibson’s New ‘Lethal Weapon’ Movie & More
On the Thanksgiving episode of Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update‘s anchors addressed topics ranging from the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict to the new Lethal Weapon movie Mel Gibson is directing.
Colin Jost kicked things off with discussion of President Biden’s “weird” Friday. “He went under anesthesia for a colonoscopy and when he woke up, the House had passed a $2 trillion social safety net bill, the Rittenhouse verdict was announced, and a woman had technically been president for the first time ever. And while Biden was processing all that, he was rushed off to pardon a turkey named Peanut Butter,” he noted. “I mean, come on. The guy just turned 79; half the country already thinks he’s senile. You can’t drop all that on him the second he comes out of the gas.”
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Jost admitted he actually can’t believe how well the day went for Biden, all things considered. “Remember David After Dentist?” he asked, referencing a viral YouTube video centered on a dazed child’s car ride home from the dental office. “I’m surprised we didn’t get Biden After Colonoscopy.”
Anchor Michael Che then pivoted to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, noting that the Wisconsin native was found not guilty in the murder of two men during a Black Lives Matter protest. “Hopefully, he got all that shooting out of his system before he becomes a cop,” he deadpanned.
Che subsequently reported that protests are being held all around the country in response to Rittenhouse’s acquittal, “which is brave” considering what he was acquitted for. “I don’t know,” Che said, “maybe don’t tempt him?”
Che later addressed the latest fallout from Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special controversy—that being that a Washington, D.C. art school is postponing renaming its theater after him. “Well, of course. Because God forbid you should name a building after someone problematic in Washington, D.C.,” Che said. “Meanwhile, my old high school insists on keeping the Michael Che Sucks Butt bathroom stall.”
Che then turned to news that Gibson is in reportedly in talks for the new Lethal Weapon movie. “If you want to see a broken-down Black guy team up with a handsome racist,” he recommended, “just watch Weekend Update.”
Toward the end of Update, the anchors welcomed a newly tattooed Baby Yoda (Kyle Mooney) to the desk to address news that he’s going to get his own float at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Following the conclusion this week of the UN Climate Change Conference, Mother Earth (Aidy Bryant) also stopped by, speaking to the climate crisis and more.
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‘SNL’s Weekend Update Pays Tribute To Norm Macdonald In Season 47 Return – Deadline
Tonight on Saturday Night Live, the Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che paid tribute to longtime cast member and Weekend Update anchor Norm Macdonald who died on September 14, following a private, nine-year battle with cancer, aged 61.
“It is a bittersweet night for us tonight,” said Jost. “Norm is the reason I ever wanted to do Weekend Update, and so tonight, we thought we’d turn the last few jokes of Update over to Norm.”
The broadcast then cut to several vintage clips of Macdonald at the Update desk, delivering some of his best one-liners.
“At the White House this week, President Clinton officially came out against same-sex marriages,” he said in one. “What’s more, the President said he is not too crazy about opposite-sex marriages, either.”
Another clip examined “a new airport planned for San Diego,” which was set to be constructed three miles out in the Pacific Ocean. “Built in 20-by-40 foot floating cylinders, it’s all part of a plan by city officials to have a huge disaster,” Macdonald said in his signature deadpan style.
In a third clip, Macdonald addresses a French man who climbed up the side of a Manhattan high-rise; in the fourth and last video, we see the anchor’s iconic coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
“In a brilliant move during closing arguments, Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran put on the knit cap prosecutors say O.J. wore during the night of the murders,” Macdonald said. “Although O.J. may have hurt his case when he suddenly blurted out, ‘Hey, hey. Easy with that! That’s my lucky stabbing hat!’”
While he was officially on hand to discuss his experience at the Met Gala, cast member Pete Davidson also paid silent tribute. He sported a t-shirt displaying a retro image of Macdonald, surrounded by an angel’s wings.
Last weekend, Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels also paid tribute to Macdonald during his acceptance speech when the show won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series.
Macdonald was with SNL from 1993-1998, anchoring its Weekend Update segment for three and a half seasons. He came to SNL as a performer and writer, after writing for Roseanne Barr’s sitcom Roseanne between 1992 and 1993.
Macdonald is remembered on the sketch side for impressions of Andy Rooney, Clint Eastwood, David Letterman, Larry King, Quentin Tarantino, Mr. Bean and Rod Serling and others, having most notably portrayed Burt Reynolds opposite Will Ferrell’s Alex Trebek in an iconic series of Celebrity Jeopardy! sketches.
Macdonald hosted Saturday Night Live for the first and only time on October 23, 1999, with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg serving as musical guests.
Watch above Jost’s tribute to Macdonald. Below is Davidson’s segment, in which he discussed his headline-making Met Gala outfit, and more Weekend Update headlines.
