“Weekend Replace” took rapid-fire purpose at President-elect Donald Trump and people in his orbit, from RFK Jr. to Elon Musk to Matt Gaetz.

However in fact, “Saturday Night time Stay‘s” fake newscast opened with a bit concerning the healthcare CEO killer story that has rivited the nation since United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was openly shot in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 4. “Weekend Replace” anchor Colin Jost famous that the nation has been engaged “within the delicate, delicate debate over who will play this man within the Netflix miniseries.”

Jost additionally famous that the whereas the accused shooter, Luigi Mangione, is suspected of harboring hostility towards company America, the info of the case don’t line up. “But he went to Starbucks earlier than the capturing and was caught at a McDonald’s — maybe his biggest crime was hypocrisy,” Jost mentioned.

Jost and his co-anchor Michael Che then alternated zingers about Trump and his associates. Noting that Trump was named Man of the 12 months by Time journal, Jost noticed that the popularity was applicable as a result of “nobody has taken as a lot of our time.”

Che commented on the information earlier this week that controversial former GOP congressman Matt Gaetz is transferring to One America Community to host a political speak present. Gaetz resigned his seat underneath the stress from an ongoing ethics investigation. Final month, he was pressured to withdraw from consideration as Trump’s Legal professional Normal after it grew to become clear that Gaetz, who has been accused of sexual habits with underage women, didn’t have the assist within the Senate for affirmation regardless of Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement.

Gaetz’s new OAN sequence can be “overlaying the whole lot from quinceañeras to promenade night time jitters,” Che mentioned.

Amongst different political barbs:

On RFK Jr.’s drive to finish polio vaccine mandates, Che quipped, “As a result of it ain’t Christmas with out some Tiny Tims.”

On Elon Musk stating that Trump and the late Supreme Court docket Ruth Bader Ginsberg agreed on the problem of abortion, he cracked, “I by no means even knew Trump obtained her pregnant.”

On Supreme Court docket Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson fulfilling her dream to look on Broadway along with her one-night-only look within the musical “& Juliet,” Che mentioned it occurred “whereas [Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas blew everybody off the stage in ‘Kinky Boots.’ ”

The “Weekend Replace” section additionally featured prolonged segments with forged members Andrew Dismukes and Jane Wickline. Dismukes riffed on the courtroom ruling out of the U.Okay. that obtained consideration this week with the choice that calling a person bald equated to harassment. Wickline delivered one in every of her signature songs that riffed on Sabrina Carpenter and Wickline’s effort to spark web rumors about her sexuality so as to increase her profession.

“Plenty of individuals on the web like to start out juicy rumors about whether or not pop stars are homosexual. When will even one individual do this about me,” Wickline sang.