SNL Weekend Update Roasts the $5 Million American Dream, Florida’s Demonologist, Halle Berry, and America’s Most Absurd Headlines
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 […]
Cop Talk Show – Saturday Night Live
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 Weekend Update Torches Trump’s Ballroom, Kristi Noem’s Divorce and the GOP’s Midterm Meltdown
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 Promises $5,000, Rubio Turns on Him and Hegseth Goes Full “High-T” Warrior
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 Weekend Update Roasts Trump, Tucker Carlson and AI’s Terrifying Future in Wild Season 52 Premiere
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 […]
Saturday Night Live Roasts Trump and Mamdani’s Bizarre Political Bromance in Wild Season 52 Premiere
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 […]
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 […]