Colin Jost is coming to Jeopardy, Amazon’s Prime Video announced Wednesday, with Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update co-anchor slated to host the streamer’s upcoming Pop Culture Jeopardy! spinoff. “What is: I’m excited,” Jost said in a statement. The classic gameshow’s spinoff program was announced in May, and as its title …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update reacted to the planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, as well as an especially viral exchange in the House of Representatives this week involving Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). For a preview of the CNN debate in late June and the second …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed Donald Trump‘s courtroom appearances during his criminal trial in New York, as well as Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem‘s admission in her forthcoming memoir that she shot and killed her puppy. Co-anchor Michael Che recalled how Trump had “complained that none of his …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update, which famously saw Norm Macdonald make O.J. Simpson the target of many a punchline from behind the desk some thirty years ago, marked the former football player’s death with a quite different tone. “O.J. Simpson died this week at the age of 76 after a …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed Friday’s 4.8 magnitude earthquake that was centered in New Jersey but was felt hundreds of miles away, as well as Donald Trump‘s latest unsubstantiated allegation about President Joe Biden. Colin Jost began: “Well yesterday, everyone in NewYork pretended they felt anearthquake.Just admit it, you …
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Some concrete plans are actually starting to emerge for the decommissioned Staten Island ferry that Pete Davidson and Colin Jost bought back in 2022. While the intent was to turn it into some kind of floating entertainment complex, for the past two years, the ferry has ostensibly just been sitting …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump‘s verbal blunders and the GOP’s State of the Union rebuttal by Alabama Senator Katie Britt. Reacting to how Trump had criticized President Joe Biden’s address to Congress Thursday, writing on Truth Social that “the words are not flowing smoothly out …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump‘s bizarre moment at the southern border this week, as well as Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announcing he’ll step down as his party’s Senate leader. Trump, who toured the Texas-Mexico border Thursday alongside the increasingly militant Gov. Greg Abbott, at one …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update went after former President Donald Trump‘s wild campaign rhetoric, as well as the Alabama Supreme Court ruling this week that frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are human beings. Co-anchor Colin Jost began by quipping that, after Trump won the South Carolina primary earlier …
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Colin Jost will go from roasting politicians from his Weekend Update desk to roasting them to their faces as host of the 2024 White House Correspondents Dinner. The longtime Saturday Night Live co-anchor and writer has been enlisted to host the annual (and this time, Election Year) event on Saturday, …
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