Saturday Night LiveThe Weekend Update bounced back from the months-long hiatus to address GameStop’s stock surge, the opening days of the Biden administration, and the Capitol Rebellion.
“A lot has happened since our last show. The inauguration was fun. Christmas, I love Christmas. And hey, the terrorist watch list now includes white people, so yes for diversity, ”said co-anchor Colin Jost of the attempted uprising in the Capitol. “And of course it has been a big week for my favorite store: The Staten Island Mall GameStop.”
Jost then compared the Reddit stock traders’ plan to skyrocket GameStop to the 2013 magic-themed heist movie Now you see me.
And tonight, if we could all get together Now you see me the number one movie on Hulu, that would be just as unlikely if GameStop is the number one stock in America, ”said Jost.
Jost and co-anchor Michael Che then went through a range of topics, including President Joe Biden’s executive orders, Rand Paul, the rollout of vaccines in West Virginia, and a collapsed highway Jost blamed on Rep. To quote Marjorie Taylor Greene, “Jewish space lasers.”
Since SNL was on vacation during the Capitol uprising, Che had his loud neighbor Cathy Anne (Cecily Tyson) come on set to share her thoughts on the January 6 riot in Washington, DC:
Mike Lindell (Beck Bennett), CEO of My Pillow, also came by to complain about how he had been banned from Twitter, as well as his attempts to convince Donald Trump to enter martial law in the days leading up to Biden’s inauguration .
“That was just a standard pillow meeting, nothing at all with martial law,” said the pillow tycoon. “I just proposed that the military overthrow the government. And see, if that’s not democracy, I don’t know what it is. “