{"id":783894,"date":"2026-09-27T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783894\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:50:08","slug":"snl-u-k-weekend-update-mocks-trump-harvey-weinstein-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783894\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SNL U.K.&#8217; Weekend Update Mocks Trump, Harvey Weinstein and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tU.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/harvey-weinstein\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harvey-weinstein\" data-tag=\"harvey-weinstein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harvey Weinstein<\/a>, Sam Altman and more were mocked in the latest \u201cSaturday Night Live U.K.\u201d Weekend Update segment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThis week, President Trump welcomed President Xi to the White House,\u201d co-anchor Ania Magliano said. \u201cAs a sign of respect, Trump wore a bright red tie as a sign of Communist China. And Xi wore a mottled purple tie, the color of Trump\u2019s prostate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJoking about Trump\u2019s Chinese banquet for President Xi, Magliano quipped: \u201cTrump ordered a 20, an 18 and a 21. And afterwards sat down for a Chinese-inspired banquet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cFrom Beijing to beige man, Trump met [U.K. Prime Minister] Andy Burnham\u201d Young continued. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a memorable event for Trump, as he\u2019s got dementia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAltman, the co-founder of OpenAI, and his appearance at the UN was also teased. \u201cAltman, whose company launched ChatGPT, warned his creation could destroy humanity. And then he slapped his own wrists and ran out of the room saying, \u2018Someone stop me!\u2019\u201d Magliano said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/snl-u-k\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl-u-k\" data-tag=\"snl-u-k\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL U.K.<\/a>\u201d also took aim at Harvey Weinstein, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in New York earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cMe Too is now what the inmates say in the queue for Weinstein\u2019s arsehole,\u201d Magliano joked as the audience let out a collective \u201coooh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cBack in 2016, Weinstein hired a private intelligence firm to dig up dirt on his victims,\u201d Young continued. \u201cSo on one side, we have a prolific rapist with paid spies. On the other, we have abuse victims who have been silenced. A conflict described by Ed Sheeran as \u2018nuanced.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tElsewhere, Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s recent speech at the UN \u2014 where representatives for other nations walked out \u2014 was also mentioned. \u201cOf course, it is easy to paint Netanyahu as the bad guy in this situation,\u201d Young said before swiftly moving on to the next item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Sam Altman and more were mocked in the latest \u201cSaturday Night Live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[141,96,9834,172943,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-snl-u-k","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}