Saturday Night LiveThe weekend’s update came back from its one-month hiatus to face the surge in GameStop shares, the early days of the Biden government and the Capitol insurrection.
“A lot has happened since our last show. The opening, how cool. Christmas, I like Christmas. And hey, the list of watched terrorists now includes whites, so yes, for diversity, ”said co-anchor Colin Jost of the Capitol insurrection attempt. “And, of course, it’s been a great week for my favorite store: The Staten Island Mall GameStop.”
Jost then compared Reddit’s stock brokers’ plan to get GameStop to fire with the 2013 magic-themed assault film Now you see me.
“And tonight, if we could get together to do Now you see me the number one movie on Hulu, that would be as unlikely as GameStop being the number one action in America, ”said Jost.
Jost and co-anchor Michael Che analyzed a series of topics that included executive orders from President Joe Biden, Rand Paul, the vaccine launch in West Virginia and a destroyed highway that Jost blamed, to quote Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , “Jewish space lasers. “
Since SNL was on vacation during the Capitol insurrection, Che asked his neighbor Cathy Anne (Cecily Tyson) to come to the set to give his opinion on the January 6 riot in Washington, DC:
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell (Beck Bennett) also appeared to complain about how he was banned from Twitter, as well as his attempts to convince Donald Trump to install martial law in the days prior to Biden’s inauguration.
“It was just a standard pillow meeting, nothing to do with martial law,” said the pillow magnate. “I just suggested that the military overthrow the government. And look, if this is not a democracy, I don’t know what is. “