Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che had a blast picking apart Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, with a special appearance by Bowen Yang cosplaying as Joe Exotic (of Netflix’s Tiger King fame). “On Wednesday, Trump nominated Matt Gaetz for attorney general, and Gaetz…

This week’s “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live was a sprawling one — tackling the results of the 2024 presidential election and joking about the next “Barbenheimer.” “On Tuesday, we learned that Democrats actually don’t know how to rig an election,” host Colin Jost said. “It’s like we’re living…

This week’s “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live was chock-full of election material ahead of Election Day, featuring hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che trading jokes as well as an appearance by Heidi Gardner parodying country star Reba McEntire as a celebrity evading a political endorsement. Jost…

As Saturday Night Live marks its 50th anniversary, Seth Meyers is fondly looking back at his onscreen love story. The Late Night host called Bill Hader‘s long-running ‘Weekend Update’ character Stefon “my one true love” as he listed his top five favorite SNL characters in honor of the NBC sketch…

A cut-for-time Halloween-themed “Weekend Update” sketch on Saturday Night Live was crawling with pop culture references, spoofing everything from the Menendez brothers (the subject of Ryan Murphy’s much-discussed Monsters anthology on Netflix) to The Golden Bachelorette. In the sketch, co-host Colin…

Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” gave a spotlight to a newcomer on Season 50, in Emil Wakim, who used his time to unpack young people’s support for Gazan and Palestinian people. During the segment, co-host Colin Jost invited Wakim, who is Lebanese, to the table, where he tested his stand-up…

A chaotic “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live spoofed an overworked Amazon employee on Prime Day in Ego Nwodim’s Monica and the Gallagher brothers of the rock band Oasis, with James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman playing the oft-feuding siblings. First, Nwodim’s frenzied worker tells host…

Saturday Night Live newcomer Jane Wickline stole Colin Jost’s thunder during this week’s “Weekend Update,” premiering a satirical ditty that explored Gen Z’s attitude toward partying. After Jost introduced a statistic that detailed how 71% of young people have cut back on going out, Wickline appeared…

Moo Deng, the viral pygmy hippopotamus as portrayed by an angsty Bowen Yang clad in a bulbous, purple animal suit, has had enough. During Saturday Night Live‘s Season 50 premiere of “Weekend Update” with hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che, Yang called for justice for the beloved zoo animal, who in real…

Michael Che and Colin Jost make plenty of jabs at each other on ‘Weekend Update‘ but one joke went too far. After 10 years of co-anchoring the Saturday Night Live news show sketch together, Che recalled an early joke from Jost that made him “so frustrated,” he nearly quit the show. “Yeah, I…

Scarlett Johansson is married to Saturday Night Live Weekend Update cohost Colin Jost. Which means she sometimes has to endure jokes that are either cringe or aimed at her. During her Thursday visit to The Kelly Clarkson Show, Johansson admitted that she "blacked out" during one rendition of…

Aunt Linda returned for some new movie reviews. Kristen Wiig's angry, middle-aged film critic was back on SNL's Weekend Update to give her hot take on Barbie and Oppenheimer. Wiig has appeared as Aunt Linda three times before tonight including twice in 2006 and once in 2010, while she was a cast…