This week’s “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live was full of election material ahead of Election Day, featuring hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che exchanging jokes as well as an appearance from Heidi Gardner mocking country music star Reba McEntire as a celebrity who evades politics. support.
Jost kicked things off with a bang: “Next week, the American people will decide whether the next president will be Kamala Harris or whether everyone on SNL will be scrutinized.”
Then, the series moved on to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s interesting choices — for lack of a better word — at last-minute campaign rallies and media appearances, including walking around with his name on a garbage truck (and not opening its door handle, almost falling off), building up On fake tanning she appears to be mime giving blowjob to the microphone stand. At this point, Che addressed Trump’s much-discussed rally at Madison Square Garden.
“Speakers have hurled insults at minorities, used Nazi rhetoric and suggested slaughtering Democrats, but this Ms [referring to a photo of Harris] “I laughed weirdly, so I still can’t decide,” Chi joked.
“One of the comedians at the Trump rally referred to Puerto Rico as a ‘floating trash island,’ and I’m offended by that as someone who proudly grew up on an actual island of trash,” Jost added, referring to Staten Island.
The segment then introduced SNL heavyhitter Gardner in full McEntire ensemble. When Jost asked her who she would vote for, she said, “Call me Shawn Mendes because I’m still getting it,” referring to the singer-songwriter’s recent comments about speculation surrounding his sexuality.
As the piece continued, Gardner increased her violent gestures and rose and swung from her chair. “We were atheist Methodists. Mama was a Republican and Daddy was Pennywise — I’m a redhead, right? Mama worked 59 jobs just to keep us in school, and Daddy only had one job, which was to eat kids,” she began. My mother weighed only 75 pounds, 67 of which were breasts.
Gardner’s messy outfit ended with her voting “online” by entering her Social Security number, credit card information and a “red and curly” photo, while posing nude.
At the conclusion of Weekend Update, Marcelo Hernandez and Gene Wickline stole the show by playing “a couple you can’t believe are together.” Hernandez played a sassy himbo in Grant, while Wicklin portrayed a quiet, bookish Barnard student earning her master’s degree in “Eighteenth-Century Tombs.” With both players’ spot-on comedic timing, Hernandez’s loud interruptions paired well with Wicklin’s laid-back verse.
