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Saturday Night Live Weekend Update‘s Michael Che thinks “it’s cool that nan president is going to nan theater” aft Donald Trump was seen attending nan opening nighttime of nan philharmonic Chicago astatine nan Kennedy Center.
“What’s nan worst that could happen?” nan co-anchor quipped to large workplace cheers.
Che and Colin Jost touched connected each of nan awesome stories of nan week, including Pam Bondi‘s firing, nan bimboification of Kristi Noem‘s hubby and nan warfare connected Iran.
Commenting connected Trump’s connection that nan U.S. would carpet-bomb nan SWANA federation “back to nan Stone Age,” Jost said: “In nan tone of Easter, fto maine conscionable say: Jesus Christ.”
Meanwhile, Che added of nan POTUS’ characterization that nan warfare was a “little journey”: “Little journeys are each anyone tin spend to take,” he said, flashing an image of rising state prices.
Following a Cold Open addressing nan erstwhile U.S. Attorney General’s dismissal, Jost joked she “redacted herself” from her job. But it’s not her fault, arsenic nan “only [person Trump has] trusted pinch nan Epstein files is simply a situation defender pinch nan cameras off.”
In speech segments, Sarah Sherman appeared arsenic Noem’s husband; struggling to support her look neutral, she showed up astatine nan Update table pinch inflated balloons successful her garment and a wig pinch a salient receding hairline. “My eyes are up here, and my nipples are retired there,” she said, arsenic she dared everyone to remark connected her protruding chest.
Meanwhile, successful a rare, but spot-on, appearance, newcomer Kam Patterson appeared arsenic Paapa Essiedu’s code-switching Professor Snape successful HBO’s caller Harry Potter TV reboot. He called retired Harry Potter arsenic “racist arsenic hell,” because nan chosen kid prejudicially assumed he had stolen nan Sorcerer’s Stone and was nan “professor of nan Dark Arts.” As nan 2nd Black characteristic successful nan Wizarding World adjacent to Kingsley Shacklebolt — “a sanction I’m guessing they sewage retired of nan Wu-Tang generator” who dresses for illustration a “Haitian cab driver,” he said — Jost concurred that J.K. Rowling “might beryllium problematic, I’m conscionable now realizing.”
