Saturday Night LiveThe Weekend Update has returned from its month-long hiatus to tackle the GameStop shares, the opening days of the Biden government and the Capitol uprising.
‘A lot has happened since our last show. The inauguration, it was nice. Christmas, I love Christmas. And hey, the terrorist watch list now contains white people, so yes for diversity, ”said Colin Jost, co-anchor, about the attempted uprising in Capitol. “And of course it was a big week for my favorite store: The Staten Island Mall GameStop.”
Jost then compares Reddit stock traders’ plan to launch GameStop with the 2013 magic movie Now you see me.
‘And tonight, if we could all get together to make Now you see me the number one movie on Hulu, it would be so unlikely if GameStop the leading stock in America, ”said Jost.
Jost and co-anchor Michael Che then went through a series of topics that included President Joe Biden’s executive orders, Rand Paul, the West Virginia vaccination, and a highway that collapsed, to which Jost blamed. in response to Rep. . ”
Since SNL was on vacation during the Capitol Uprising, and Che brought his loud neighbor Cathy Anne (Cecily Tyson) to the stage to record her during the January 6 riots in Washington, DC:
My pillow CEO Mike Lindell, Mike Beck (Beck Bennett), also popped in to complain about how he was banned on Twitter, as well as his efforts to persuade Donald Trump to introduce martial law in the days before Biden’s inauguration.
“It was just a standard pillowcase, nothing to do with martial law,” the pillow mother said. ‘I just suggested that the army overthrow the government. And look, if it’s not a democracy, I do not know what it is. ‘