Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update tackled some of Donald Trump’s most troubling cabinet picks. On Wednesday, Trump said he would nominateMatt Gaetz for attorney general. When the then-congressman was first asked about the role, co-anchor Colin Jost joked, he “said the same thing hedoes when he sees a teenagegirl: ‘I’ll …
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With Donald Trump, who has threatened revenge against his perceived enemies, set to begin his second term in a matter of months, Saturday Night Live‘s cast members had self-preservation in mind, insisting that they have always had his back. “We have been with you all along,” Kenan Thompson said, with …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update had plenty to say about Donald Trump‘s election win Tuesday. For one, co-anchor Colin Jost joked, “We learned that Democrats actually don’t know how to rig an election.” That Trump won all the battleground states and even the popular vote, Jost continued, makes him “like …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update had some final pre-election thoughts on Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally last week, his garbage truck photo op, and more. “Well, next week America will decide if the next president is Kamala Harris, or if everyone at SNL will get audited,” co-anchor Colin Jost …
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Saturday Night Live referenced the current cultural fascination with the Menendez brothers in a cut-for-time skit intended to air during Weekend Update. In the sketch, Marcello Hernandez and Michael Longfellow play two guys dress for Halloween as doctors in scrubs who keep being mistaken for Erik and Lyle Menendez. “We …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Elon Musk pushing the same false theory about Dominion voting machines that cost Fox News $787 million, as well as Donald Trump’s bizarre town hall in which he stood on stage listening to music for 40 long minutes. Musk, who has a …
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In classic form, Liam Gallagher has responded to a Saturday Night Live sketch that aired over the weekend mocking the two Oasis members for not getting along. The skit, part of “Weekend Update,” starred James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman as Noel and Liam Gallagher, respectively, and saw the pair …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump‘s rally earlier in the day in Coachella, California, of all places, as well as his running mate’s awkward, repeated refusal to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election. “Donald Trump held a rally todayat the site of the CoachellaMusic Festival, …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update began by addressing how Donald Trump held a rally earlier in the day in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he had been the target of a failed assassination attempt in July. “I have to admit, it was very brave of him,” co-anchor Colin Jost said, “but it …
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SNL‘s Weekend Update addressed the assassination attempt of Donald Trump in July, as well as the more recent indictments of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and rapper Sean Combs. Co-anchor Colin Jost first called attention to how Trump earlier in the day delivered his latest smear against Vice President …
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