The Halloween edition of “SNL” Weekend Update saw an appearance by Ben Marshall’s Pennywise as well as some jabs at President Trump’s recent obsession with candidates’ posteriors.
“Even Vice President JD Vance came out and said that he was jealous that President Trump never complimented his butt. What’s going on! Your party is about to lose the midterm elections, stop playing “crush or pass” with each other! exclaimed co-host Colin Jost.
Later, during the Weekend Update, Michael Che made a joke about Israel that jokingly made Jost wince.
“This week, a record number of people voted in the Israeli elections – which is great to see, whether you’re on the right side, the left side or the genocide,” Che joked.
One of the reasons the U.K.’s Weekend Update of “Saturday Night Live” outperformed the American version is that Jost and Che largely avoided controversial topics like Israel, while the co-hosts of the U.K.’s Weekend Update cleverly mocked Ed Sheeran and Macklemore over their outsized role in the conversation around Israel’s war on Gaza.
And that, it seems, is the best that Jost and Che can ultimately come up with.
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