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The latest installment in Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” began with co-anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost addressing this week’s Jan. 6 Committee hearing, as well as former President Donald Trump’s reaction to it in the form of a furious 14-page letter.
“I don’t know if this is a coincidence, but Trump wrote the letter on the same day the FDA confirmed the nation is experiencing a shortage of Adderall,” Jost quipped.
Regarding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying she would “punch out” Trump if he came to the Capitol on Jan. 6 and would “go to jail” and “be happy,” Che remarked: “I assume because she owns stock in private prisons.”
The hosts then joked about Kanye West’s recent anti-Semitic tweets and subsequent social media account restrictions.
The rapper’s “anti-Semitictweets were condemned by the Black Jewish Entertainment Alliance –justsay Lenny Kravitz!” exclaimed Che.
Jost followed up by mentioning how Elon Musk tweeted in response, “Talked to ye today & expressed my concerns about his recent tweet, which I think he took to heart.”
“Well that settles it,” Jost said. “If there’s one thing we trustElon with, it’s successfullyreading another human being’semotional cues.”
Later in the segment, Che highlighted how Manhattan congressional candidate Mike Itkis, who is running on a platform that includes sex positivity, filmed a sex tape with an adult film star.
“I’m going to vote for him because I watched that video andwe share a lot of the samepositions,” he joked.
Jost wrapped the segment with a Halloween-appropriate story.
“Border officials havediscovered $400,000 worth ofmeth hidden inside pumpkins. They could tell the pumpkinswere full of meth because theyonly had like three teeth left,” he said as a photo of a jack-o-lantern showed on screen.
