Colin Jost and Michael Che got right into poking fun at politics in Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment. Jost and Che also joked about Russia, Hurricane Ian, President Biden, Ted Cruz, Ginni Thomas, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lizzo’s flute playing, and the CIA’s plans to launch a new podcast in the classic desk skit.
New cast member Michael Longfellow was front and center, making Weekend Update debut as the child of conservatives. He was asked for his thoughts on the backlash that Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney faced for allegedly having Trump-supporting family members. “Well, my family is from Arizona, so if you can get in trouble for what your parents think — uh, it’s been a good run,” he said.
Longfellow added that his “dad is anti-COVID vaccine” as “he doesn’t really believe in the virus” adding he thinks it’s “crazy because every anti-vax article he sends me gives my computer 10 of them.” Jost and Che were also joined by James Austin Johnson and Kenan Thompson on the desk as Mitch McConnell and Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker.
It was also Johnson’s first ever Weekend Update appearance. Che pointed out some of the questionable statements the former football player has made such as “Our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air, so when China gets our good air, the bad air got to move.” “I’ll slow down so you can understand,” Thompson’s Walker said. “We all know air, right?
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