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“You guys aren’t going tobelieve this, but Alex Jones andKanye West got together thisweek, and it didn’t go great,” Colin Jost opened SNL‘s Weekend Update.
In West’s interview with the Sandy Hook school shooting denier, the anti-Semite said, “I like Hitler.” This, Jost joked, “was also the password he used to get into Mar-a-Lago.”
“At this point, I don’t thinkKanye is off his meds so much ashe’s immune to them. We’re basically dealing with theomicron variant of Kanye.We thought he would fade away,but now we realize we may haveto deal with the brain fog oflong haul Kanye,” Jost continued.
“If Jews do control the media,how are we still seeing a newinterview with Kanye every day? Also, if they control the media,explain the 80-foot Christmastree outside of NBC,” Jost said as a photograph showed on screen of the Rockefeller Center holiday staple.
Co-anchor Michael Che then addressed President Joe Biden signing legislation that doesn’t ensure paid sick leave for rail workers.
“How do you expect him to careabout sick leave when he showsup to work every day with fullblown CTE?” Che said.
Turning to the Georgia Senate runoff and early voting data, Jost commented that professed anti-choice Republican candidate Herschel Walker (who reportedly paid for two former girlfriends to receive an abortion) “has alwaysencouraged his supporters totake care of voting early beforeit becomes a problem.”
Jost also addressed how Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right group the Oath Keepers, was found guilty this week of seditious conspiracy. Jost said Rhodes, who wears an eye patch, “plans to appeal the verdictbecause he feels that the trial, like his vision, was veryone-sided.”
