{"id":586214,"date":"2026-04-05T02:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:41:08","slug":"snl-u-k-weekend-update-takes-aim-at-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586214\/","title":{"rendered":"‘SNL U.K.’ Weekend Update Takes Aim at Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u2018Saturday Night U.K.\u2019 took aim at a number of public figures in this week\u2019s faux news segment Weekend Update, with one particularly spicy joke invoking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s death by suicide.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s been revealed that meta billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is building a bunker under his compound in California,\u201d said Weekend Update co-host Ania Magliano. \u201cAnd I hope he uses that bunker in exactly the same way Hitler did\u201d prompting some shocked noises from the live audience.<\/p>\n

\n\tHitler infamously shot himself in his bunker in 1945 as he realized Germany had lost World War II.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther figures on the receiving end of Magliano and co-host Paddy Young\u2019s artificial headlines were Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and BBC D.J. Scott Mills, who was fired last week in relation to a historic abuse allegation<\/a> relating to a teenage boy. \u201cIn big media news, DJ Scott Mills was fired from his job at the BBC this week after police searched the Radio 2 presenter\u2019s hard drive and found over 100 terabytes of decent music,\u201d said Young.<\/p>\n

\n\tTiger Woods, who crashed his car while allegedly driving under the influence<\/a> last week, was also invoked. \u201cAccording to a police report at the scene of his car crash in Florida last week, Tiger Woods had two opioid pills in his pocket,\u201d said Young. \u201cWoods claimed he was only keeping them in his pocket because he\u2019d run out of room in his bloodstream.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe segment also included guests in the form of a faux \u201cLove Island\u201d contestant complaining about the latest season of the show replacing participants with \u201cAI-generated fruit\u201d and, inexplicably, Jack Shep as an influencer dormouse.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe third episode of \u201cSNL U.K.\u201d is hosted by Riz Ahmed with musical guest Kasabian. The first episode saw 226,000 viewers, losing 21,000 for its second episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Saturday Night U.K.\u2019 took aim at a number of public figures in this week\u2019s faux news segment Weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,257359,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-586214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-snl-uk","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}