‘SNL’s Weekend Replace Tackles Sydney Sweeney Household Saga & Herschel Walker Controversies – Deadline

Colin Jost and Michael Che bought proper into poking enjoyable at politics in Saturday Evening Stay’s Weekend Replace section.

Jost and Che additionally joked about Russia, Hurricane Ian, President Biden, Ted Cruz, Ginni Thomas, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lizzo’s flute taking part in, and the CIA’s plans to launch a brand new podcast within the basic desk skit.

New solid member Michael Longfellow was entrance and middle, making Weekend Replace debut because the little one of conservatives.

He was requested for his ideas on the backlash that Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney confronted for allegedly having Trump-supporting members of the family.

“Nicely, my household is from Arizona, so if you will get in bother for what your dad and mom assume — uh, it’s been an excellent run,” he mentioned.

Longfellow added that his “dad is anti-COVID vaccine” as “he doesn’t actually imagine within the virus” including he thinks it’s “loopy as a result of each anti-vax article he sends me provides my laptop 10 of them.”

Jost and Che have been additionally joined by James Austin Johnson and Kenan Thompson on the desk as Mitch McConnell and Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker.

It was additionally Johnson’s first ever Weekend Replace look.

Che identified among the questionable statements the previous soccer participant has made resembling “Our good air determined to drift over to China’s unhealthy air, so when China will get our good air, the unhealthy air bought to maneuver.”

“I’ll decelerate so you’ll be able to perceive,” Thompson’s Walker mentioned. “Everyone knows air, proper? Air Bud, Air Jordan… Erin Brokevich. Science don’t perceive. All people speaking about local weather, however what we actually needs to be specializing in is placing Hawaii nearer…. deliver that local weather over right here.”

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Che then questioned Johnson’s McConnell in regards to the {qualifications} Walker must be operating for a Senate seat, saying that he performs soccer and the state of “Georgia likes soccer.”

The jokes bought more and more extra chaotic after Che requested Walker if he had any precise proposals with “BBQ Tuesdays” and one other one to “create a division of Instagram booty” to battle the ladies “faking their cake.”