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Saturday Night Live Brutally Roasts Elon Musk Over Election Spending Disaster, Cybertruck Troubles, and Grok AI Meltdown SNL’s Weekend Update takes aim at Musk’s political spending, Tesla troubles, Texas tax strategy, and artificial intelligence ambitions, with his own fictional AI chatbot delivering some of the most savage punches. Elon Musk has spent years cultivating an

SNL Weekend Update Takes Aim at the $5 Million American Dream, Florida’s Tattooed Demonologist, Columbus Day, and Halle Berry Michael Che and Colin Jost delivered another round of dark comedy on Saturday Night Live, turning headlines about the soaring cost of American life, bizarre criminal cases, celebrity allegations, and historical controversies into a rapid fire

Saturday Night Live Turns a Police Talk Show Into a Hilarious Series of Traffic Stops, Shakedowns, and Completely Unnecessary Arrest Threats In its latest sketch, Saturday Night Live imagines what would happen if two suspicious, overly aggressive police officers hosted their own daytime talk show. The result is a brilliantly absurd collision of celebrity interviews,

SNL’s ‘Weekend Update’ Torches Trump’s Ballroom, Kristi Noem, JD Vance and the GOP’s Midterm Problems Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” returned Saturday night with Colin Jost and Michael Che unloading on President Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, Vice President JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and the Republican Party as Washington barrels toward the 2026 midterm elections. The

SNL Savages Republican Midterm Panic as Trump, Rubio, Hegseth and McConnell Try to Save the GOP ‘Saturday Night Live’ Imagines a Republican Campaign Operation So Desperate That Trump Offers Voters $5,000, Rubio Turns on Him in Spanish and Pete Hegseth Breaks Into Anti-Woke Slam Poetry NEW YORK — Saturday Night Live opened its October 3

SNL’s Weekend Update Returns Swinging at Trump, World Leaders, Tucker Carlson and the People Building AI Saturday Night Live brought Weekend Update back for its Season 52 premiere Saturday night, with Colin Jost and Michael Che returning to the desk and immediately unloading on another week of political dysfunction, international tension, technology anxiety and pop

SNL Opens Season 52 by Roasting Trump and Mamdani’s Bizarre Political Bromance Saturday Night Live returned for its 52nd season Saturday night and wasted virtually no time diving back into American politics, opening its premiere with a surreal parody of one of the strangest relationships currently playing out in public life: the unexpectedly cordial relationship

SNL Cold Open Goes Nuclear: Hegseth, Kash Patel, and a White House Briefing That Spirals Out of Control Saturday Night Live didn’t ease into its May 2026 episode, it detonated. The cold open took on a fictional White House press briefing and turned it into a chaotic, sharply written satire of war messaging, political incompetence,

SNL Takes Aim at War, Airlines, and Influencer Chaos in a Sharp May 2 Episode Saturday Night Live didn’t ease into May, it came in swinging… The May 2, 2026 episode, led by Olivia Rodrigo pulling double duty as host and musical guest, delivered one of the most news driven broadcasts of the season. With

SNL’s Weekend Update Is Still America’s Sharpest Satire, But This Episode Shows the Edge Getting Dangerous “Weekend Update has always been where SNL drops the act, and tells you exactly what it thinks.” That’s why it works. It’s also why, in this latest episode, you can feel the tension tightening underneath the laughs. For nearly

SNL Mocks Trump’s “Make Iran Great Again” Push as War Messaging Dominates Headlines As tensions surrounding the U.S. conflict with Iran continue to shape global politics, Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update delivered a biting cultural snapshot of the moment, targeting President Donald Trump’s increasingly slogan-driven rhetoric, including his call to “Make Iran Great Again.” The

“Weekend Update” Roasts Trump’s Iran War Messaging in Latest Saturday Night Live Segment As the United States edges deeper into a volatile military conflict with Iran, Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” turned the week’s headlines into a brutal piece of political satire, using President Donald Trump’s own words and the administration’s confusing messaging as comedic

SNL Mocks Trump’s Iran War and Cabinet Chaos in Explosive Cold Open As the United States edges deeper into a volatile war with Iran, Saturday Night Live did what it has done for nearly five decades: take Washington’s most serious moments and hold them up to a brutal comedic mirror. The latest episode opened with

Inside Tehran: Fear, Hope, and Uncertainty as U.S. Israel Strikes Shake Iran’s Capital TEHRAN — When the first explosions hit Tehran on the morning of Feb. 28, many residents of Iran’s capital were just beginning their workweek. Schools had opened, businesses were starting the day, and parents had just dropped their children off at class.

Trump’s Border-Czar Shakeup Fails to Cool Minneapolis Tensions as Immigration Crackdown Continues MINNEAPOLIS — The Trump administration’s decision to replace its top immigration official in Minnesota and partially scale back federal enforcement has done little to ease fear or unrest across the Twin Cities, according to local officials, legal experts, and community leaders who say

The Institution Inside the Institution: The Esteemed History of Weekend Update For nearly half a century, Weekend Update has occupied a singular place in American media, not quite comedy, not quite journalism, but something powerful in between. It is the longest-running fake news broadcast in television history, and paradoxically, one of the most enduring mirrors

Weekend Update’s Relentless Trump Coverage Signals a Cultural Shift He Can’t Spin Away For decades, Saturday Night Live has treated politics as material, elastic, absurd, fair game. But in recent weeks, Weekend Update has moved beyond occasional parody into something more sustained and revealing: a running chronicle of a presidency increasingly defined by spectacle, denial,

SNL’s “Trump Awards” Cold Open Lands Because It Nails the Moment He Can’t Control Saturday Night Live didn’t just parody Donald Trump this week, it framed him in a way that feels uncomfortably accurate for this moment. The cold open, built around a fictional self-celebration dubbed “The Trump Awards,” wasn’t a string of gags. It

SNL Roasts Trump’s Cabinet in Cold Open, Skewering Power, Loyalty, and Foreign Policy Absurdity Saturday Night Live returned this week with a cold open aimed squarely at President Donald Trump and the chaos surrounding his cabinet, using satire to expose what the show framed as confusion, loyalty tests, and shallow governance at the highest levels

The History of Weekend Update: How SNL’s Fake Newscast Became a Real Cultural Institution Weekend Update is one of the longest-running and most influential segments in American television comedy. What began as a simple parody of network news has evolved into a sharp, recurring commentary on politics, media, and public life often shaping how audiences