Saturday Night Live Weekend Update‘s Michael Che thinks “it’s cool that the president is going to the theater” after Donald Trump was seen attending the opening night of the musical Chicago at the Kennedy Center.
“What’s the worst that could happen?” the co-anchor quipped to loud studio cheers tonight.
Che and Colin Jost touched on all of the major stories of the week, including Pam Bondi’s firing, the bimboification of Kristi Noem‘s husband and the war on Iran.
Commenting on Trump’s statement that the U.S. would carpet-bomb the SWANA nation “back to the Stone Age,” Jost said, “In the spirit of Easter, let me just say: Jesus Christ.”
Meanwhile, Che added of the POTUS’ characterization that the war was a “little journey” because “little journeys are all anyone can afford to take now,” flashing an image of rising gas prices.
Following a cold open addressing the former U.S. Attorney General’s dismissal, Jost joked she was asked to “redact herself” from her job. But it’s not her fault, as the “only person Trump has ever trusted to handle the Epstein situation is a prison guard with the cameras off.”
In aside segments, Sarah Sherman appeared as Noem’s husband; struggling to keep her face neutral, she showed up at the Update desk with inflated balloons in her shirt and a wig with a prominent receding hairline. “My eyes are up here, and my nipples are out here,” she said, as she dared everyone to comment on her protruding chest.
Meanwhile, in a rare but spot-on appearance, newcomer Kam Patterson appeared as Paapa Essiedu’s code-switching Professor Snape in HBO’s new Harry Potter TV reboot. He called out Harry Potter as “racist as hell,” because the chosen child — or “the Proud Boy who lived” — prejudicially assumed he had stolen the Sorcerer’s Stone and was “secretly evil.”
He added of the bigoted atmosphere at Hogwarts: “I showed up … and the first day, they looked at me and they said, ‘You’re the Professor of the Dark Arts.’” As the second Black character in the Wizarding World next to Kingsley Shacklebolt — “a name I’m guessing they got out of the Wu-Tang name generator,” and who dresses like a “Haitian cab driver,” he said — Jost concurred that “for the very first time, I’m starting to think J.K. Rowling might be problematic.”
