This week’s “ Weekend Update ” on Saturday Night Live was a sprawling one — tackling the results of the 2024 presidential election and joking about the next “Barbenheimer.” “On Tuesday, we learned that Democrats actually don’t know how to rig an election,” host Colin Jost said. “It’s like we’re living in a computer simulation and whoever’s controlling Trump has a cheat code.
He’s invincible, he’s like a character in Grand Theft Auto who throws a prostitute out of a car and drives straight to the White House. But don’t you guys worry, if I know Democrats, they’re gonna take a long look in the mirror, learn from their mistakes and then run Biden again in 2028.” Michael Che added, “How did I let y’all convince me that rural Pennsylvania would pick the Jamaican Indian lady? Clearly I’ve been spending too much time with you white liberals and your goofy optimism.
It wasn’t even close ...
Y’all gonna let a man with 34 felonies lead the free world and be the president of the United States? That’s it, I’m listening to R. Kelly again. I already do, but I’mma stop pretending I don’t.
If white people can elect their felons, I can dance to mine.” Elsewhere during the program, Jost joked about cinemas’ goal of recreating “Barbenheimer,” the double-feature release of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer in summer 2023: “Theater owners around the country are hoping to recreate the box-office success of .