{"id":565959,"date":"2026-04-05T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565959\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:08:08","slug":"weekend-update-tackles-pam-bondi-firing-kristi-noem-husband-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565959\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Update Tackles Pam Bondi Firing, Kristi Noem Husband, Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSaturday Night Live Weekend Update<\/a>\u2018s Michael Che<\/a> thinks \u201cit\u2019s cool that the president is going to the theater\u201d after Donald Trump was seen attending the opening night of the musical Chicago at the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat\u2019s the worst that could happen?\u201d the co-anchor quipped to loud studio cheers tonight.<\/p>\n

\n\tChe and Colin Jost<\/a> touched on all of the major stories of the week, including Pam Bondi\u2019s firing<\/a>, the bimboification of Kristi Noem<\/a>\u2018s husband and the war on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tCommenting on Trump\u2019s statement that the U.S. would carpet-bomb the SWANA nation \u201cback to the Stone Age,\u201d Jost said, \u201cIn the spirit of Easter, let me just say: Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Che added of the POTUS\u2019 characterization that the war was a \u201clittle journey\u201d because \u201clittle journeys are all anyone can afford to take now,\u201d flashing an image of rising gas prices.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing a cold open addressing the former U.S. Attorney General\u2019s dismissal<\/a>, Jost joked she was asked to \u201credact herself\u201d from her job. But it\u2019s not her fault, as the \u201conly person Trump has ever trusted to handle the Epstein situation is a prison guard with the cameras off.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn aside segments, Sarah Sherman appeared as Noem\u2019s husband; struggling to keep her face neutral, she showed up at the Update desk with inflated balloons in her shirt and a wig with a prominent receding hairline. \u201cMy eyes are up here, and my nipples are out here,\u201d she said, as she dared everyone to comment on her protruding chest.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, in a rare but spot-on appearance, newcomer Kam Patterson appeared as Paapa Essiedu\u2019s code-switching Professor Snape in HBO\u2019s new Harry Potter TV reboot. He called out Harry Potter as \u201cracist as hell,\u201d because the chosen child \u2014 or \u201cthe Proud Boy who lived\u201d \u2014 prejudicially assumed he had stolen the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone and was \u201csecretly evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added of the bigoted atmosphere at Hogwarts: \u201cI showed up \u2026 and the first day, they looked at me and they said, \u2018You\u2019re the Professor of the Dark Arts.’\u201d As the second Black character in the Wizarding World next to Kingsley Shacklebolt \u2014 \u201ca name I\u2019m guessing they got out of the Wu-Tang name generator,\u201d and who dresses like a \u201cHaitian cab driver,\u201d he said \u2014 Jost concurred that \u201cfor the very first time, I\u2019m starting to think J.K. Rowling might be problematic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live Weekend Update\u2018s Michael Che thinks \u201cit\u2019s cool that the president is going to the theater\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4111,88,801,4801,40238,3131,12016,92,40239],"class_list":{"0":"post-565959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-colin-jost","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-kristi-noem","12":"tag-michael-che","13":"tag-pam-bondi","14":"tag-snl","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-weekend-update"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}