Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” co-hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost had loads of materials to play with after Donald Trump’s first week again within the Oval Workplace.
Jost kicked issues off, lobbing a jab at Trump for not placing his hand on the swearing-in Bible, the identical one which was used throughout Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration.
“I want these two may speak to one another: Lincoln may train Trump quite a bit in regards to the significance of preserving our union, and Trump may train Lincoln flip your head on the precise proper second,” he stated.
Talking on Trump’s instant pardon of the Jan. 6 rioters, Che quipped: “President Trump defended his pardon of the January 6 attackers, saying that these are simply individuals who love their nation; you recognize, like how O.J. [Simpson] liked Nicole.”
He continued, referencing Tesla CEO Elon Musk‘s Nazi-like salute following the inauguration, which Musk has since joked about and which Germans have since decried: “Elon Musk was criticized for his speech at a rally after the inauguration by which he seems to provide the Nazi salute. However c’mon, Elon Musk will not be a Nazi; the Nazis made good vehicles.”
Responding to the leisure information headlines of the week, Che additionally commented on the Academy Award nominations announcement, made partly by colleague Bowen Yang (together with Rachel Sennott): “The Oscar nominations have been introduced with the musical Emilia Pérez main the pack with 13 … whole viewers.”
In the meantime, Jost cautioned viewers about repeating a sure kind of conduct on his personal recreation present Pop Tradition Jeopardy! “Throughout an episode of Wheel of Fortune this week, a contestant who had simply gained $40,000 unintentionally tackled host Ryan Seacrest. Nicely I dare you to strive on Pop Tradition Jeopardy!” he stated whereas wielding a prop gun and sending each himself and Che right into a match of giggles.
Elsewhere on the section, Ego Nwodim appeared as Giselle, a “involved businesswoman” who voted for Trump and cautioned all Black girls to safe wigs earlier than Trump launched a commerce warfare.
“Black girls … it’s time to act, and purchase all of the hair and extensions you want earlier than these tariffs kick in. You heard me. We not getting no extra Malaysian hair, no Peruvian hair, Indian or Brazilian. We not even gonna be getting no Irish. We about to be in a pickle, a bald-headed pickle,” she urged.
Andrew Dismukes additionally appeared alongside his “puppet dad,” who christened Dismukes the “seventeenth most well-known” forged member on SNL and Jost because the “sixteenth most well-known.”
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