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Seven-time musical visitor Kanye West has delivered a number of the biggest performances in Saturday Night time Reside historical past. And Elon Musk awkwardly hosted that one time. However on “Weekend Replace” this week, they had been diminished to mere punchlines.
“Kanye West’s antisemitic tweets had been condemned by the Black Jewish Leisure Alliance,” Michael Che reported, earlier than interrupting himself so as to add, “Simply say Lenny Kravitz.”
“After Kanye West’s unhinged social media put up, Elon Musk tweeted, ‘Talked to ye right this moment & expressed my considerations about his latest tweet, which I feel he took to coronary heart,’” Colin Jost continued. “Properly, that settles it.” And whereas that line alone bought a good snicker, he then added, “If there’s one factor all of us belief Elon with, it’s efficiently studying one other human being’s emotional cues.”
Earlier within the phase, the pair lined a handful of political tales, beginning with Donald Trump’s unhinged 14-page letter in response to the Jan. 6 committee.
“OK, Unabomber,” Jost stated. “I don’t know if this can be a coincidence, however Trump wrote the letter on the identical day the FDA confirmed the nation is experiencing a scarcity of Adderall. And I simply know from expertise in school, any time I wrote a 14-page paper in a single night time, I’d additionally taken a disturbing quantity of Adderall.”
Che, in the meantime, introduced up the newly launched clip of Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying that if Trump confirmed as much as the Capitol throughout the rebellion, she would “punch him out,” including, “and I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be glad.”
“I assume as a result of she owns inventory in personal prisons,” Che joked to a mixture of guffaws and groans.
And at last, Jost roasted Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker for pulling out a prop police badge throughout his debate with Senator Raphael Warnock.
“I'm work with many cops,” Walker stated verbatim.
“Which is one more signal that Herschel Walker is has mind issues,” Jost joked.
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