‘SNL’s Weekend Update Take On Rupert Murdoch Stepping Down At Fox News, NBCUniversal Pulling Ads From X/Twitter & Working Title For ‘And Just Like That’
deadline.comIt was a busy week for Colin Jost and Michael Che as they joked on Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” about everything in politics and pop culture.
The big news right now is media companies pulling their ad dollars from X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, after advertisements started appearing next to anti-semitic posts. “Which is a huge relief because I was definitely worried about where this was going to end up,” Jost quipped.
An image of Jost making a thumbs-up appeared on-screen with the SNL “Weekend Update” anchor smiling gleefully. Later on in the segment, Jost took on the news that Rupert Murdoch was stepping down as CEO of Fox News joking that he passed “the position to his son, Darth Murdoch.” Jost made a reference to the villain Darth Vader of Star Wars.
The Sex and the City spinoff, And Just Like That also got a mention on the late-night show. When talking about a woman in Europe who keyed several part cars and blamed it on “feeling menopausal,” Jost quipped that “Incidentally, ‘Feeling Menopausal’ was also the working title of And Just Like That.” U.S.
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