‘NYC earthquake’ makes appearance on ‘SNL’ to fight with Monday’s solar eclipse in epic skit

nypost.com:

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update sketch that found the comic side of both headline-making phenomena. Cast member Marcello Hernández dressed up as the earthquake — complete with a hat featuring city landmarks — and had it out with SNL veteran Kenan Thompson — playing the solar eclipse — over which natural event reigned supreme.

One thing they agreed on was Mayor Eric Adams’ subpar response to Friday’s tremors.“I’m sure Mayor Adams would have it totally under control,” Thompson quipped, when musing about how crazy people would go if both the eclipse and earthquake happened at the same time.Hernández began the gag by being interviewed by Weekend Update host Colin Jost and bragging about the effect the tremors had on the metro area around 10:30 a.m.

Friday.“People stopped working for five — even six minutes — to text their friends, ‘Did you just feel something?'” Hernández quipped.“The flights were delayed for 30 minutes,” he continued, adding that they were normally delayed for an hour.The rare quake — the strongest to strike near the Big Apple in 140 years — completely took over the news, pushing other big headlines to the wayside, Hernández said, namely that of the man running around Manhattan punching women in the face.When asked by Jost why he was identifying as the New York City earthquake when the tremors originated roughly 60 miles out in New Jersey, Hernández noted that he was a transplant: “I grew up there but I moved to the city.”That’s when Thompson stormed in, accusing the earthquake of stealing the thunder from the solar eclipse, which has been heavily anticipated across several states for months.“You want to do a little shimmy shake and try to steal my thunder.