Aziz Ansari Cold Opens SNL as Kash Patel
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, […]
Weekend Update: Iran, Spirit Airlines, and Influencers
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 […]
Weekend Update: Trump Posts “Make Iran Great Again” Says U.S. Won War On Day One
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: Trump Fires Kristi Noem
“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 Skewers Trump’s Iran War With Pete Hegseth “Press Conference”
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 […]
Weekend Update: Photo of Stephen Hawking in Epstein Files Goes Viral
Weekend Update: Photo of Stephen Hawking in Epstein Files Goes Viral on Saturday Night Live A surreal moment from late-night television is suddenly circulating across social media again: a Weekend Update segment on Saturday Night Live where the show joked about a supposed photo of Stephen Hawking appearing in the Jeffrey Epstein files. “This week, […]
Weekend Update: Mysterious “Dorito-Shaped” Aircraft
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: Trump Says God Is “Very Proud” of Him
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, […]
The Trump Awards – SNL
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 […]
Trump Cabinet Meeting Cold Open On SNL
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 […]
Weekend Update: Trump Presented with Nobel Peace Prize
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 […]
Weekend Update: Christmas Joke Swap
The Weekend Update Joke Swap: How SNL Turned Mutual Destruction Into a Holiday Tradition For nearly a decade, one of the most anticipated moments of the final episode of Saturday Night Live each year has nothing to do with sketches, celebrity cameos, or musical guests. It’s the Weekend Update joke swap, a segment built entirely […]
Weekend Update: Some Epstein Files Released
SNL Ends the Year With Relentless Jabs at Epstein Files and Washington Chaos The final episode of the year for Saturday Night Live closed out 2025 by leaning hard into one of the most uncomfortable political stories still hovering over Washington: the sudden release, and partial disappearance, of newly redacted Jeffrey Epstein files tied to […]
Trump Christmas Address – Saturday Night Live
SNL’s Christmas Cold Open Turns Trump’s Holiday Address Into a Political Fever Dream Saturday Night Live did what it does best this weekend, took the news cycle, cranked the absurdity to eleven, and aired it live from Studio 8H. The December 20 cold open featured Saturday Night Live skewering Donald Trump’s Christmas address, with longtime […]
Weekend Update: Long Island Outspends Some Entire Nations On OnlyFans
Weekend Update Skewers America’s Economic Absurdities From Pregnancy Bills to Long Island’s OnlyFans Problem Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update once again did what cable news increasingly won’t: cut straight through the noise and expose how unserious American priorities have become, all while landing punches that felt uncomfortably close to real policy debates. Anchors Colin Jost […]
Weekend Update Skewers Trump’s Rally Rants and Economic Illiteracy
Weekend Update Skewers Trump’s Rally Rants and Economic Illiteracy in Relentless Cold-Season Satire Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update zeroed in this week on a familiar theme, Donald Trump struggling to stay focused in public while confidently mangling basic facts, and turned it into one of the segment’s sharpest political takedowns of the season. Anchors Colin […]
Trump Air Force One Press Conference on Saturday Night Live
SNL’s Cold Open Turns Trump’s Air Force One Press Conferences Into Dark, Chaotic Satire Saturday Night Live opened this week’s episode with a cold open that wasted no time returning to one of its most reliable targets: Donald Trump in front of a microphone. Set aboard Air Force One, the sketch framed a mock presidential […]