The Media Research Center continued to rage against “Saturday Night Live” with a Oct. 21 post by comedy cop Alex Christy:
Some people just can’t help themselves when it comes to comparing Republicans to Nazis. One such person is NBC’s Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost, who made the claim while fellow anchor Michael Che continued to do his best to help drag Zohran Mamdani across the finish line in New York City’s mayoral election.
Putting up a picture of Argentine President Javier Milei side-by-side a picture of Austin Powers, Colin Jost began, “Argentine President Javier Milei, seen asking if he makes you horny baby, met with President Trump at the White House this week, where Trump announced he’s sending $40 billion to Argentina, because if history is any guide, Trump officials will end up fleeing to Argentina.”
After a Jost joke about former Rep. George Santos, who recently had his prison sentence commuted by President Trump, Che recalled, “During the first New York mayoral debate, Andrew Cuomo attacked Zohran Mamdani. Saying that he once gave the finger to the Columbus Day statue, whereas Cuomo snuck up behind the statue and grabbed it by the hips.”
While this is the second week in a row Che has used Weekend Update to promote Mamdani, he is hardly alone.
Christy went on to whine: “This is where most jokes about Democrats are in 2025: joke about certain Democrats in order to promote those even further to the left.”
Christy went on to grouse in a Dec. 9 post:
Calling yourself a comedian does not give you the license to spread fake news under the guise of exaggeration or hyperbole, but once again NBC’s Saturday Night Live has done just that. This time the guilty party was Colin Jost, who played Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth and claimed that the drug boats being hit in the Caribbean are actually just fishermen and that the name of the operation is Operation Kill Everybody.
During the cold open about Hegseth taking questions from reporters, Jost played an exaggerated version of Hegseth that was frequently yelling, singing tonally inappropriate songs, or trying to do a tough guy shtick. As he opened it up for questions, Fake Hegseth urged, “Now, you got questions for me, fine, pretend I’m a random fishing boat and fire away.”
Mikey Day played the part of one reporter who wondered, “Okay. Is there any truth to the allegations that after an initial strike on a drug smuggling boat, you ordered a second strike to kill the survivors?”
Jost acted offended that anyone would ask such a question before reverting to the “Hegseth likes alcohol” trope, “Uh, first of all, that kind of cruel, heartless act has no place in Operation Kill Everybody. Second, I wasn’t even in the room when it happened, okay? I was so jacked up after the first strike, I had to make an emergency call to my sponsor—sorry, a guy I met in an anonymous meeting—so I don’t drink something that I like, and I want, but I can’t have, but I want it, and I need it, and I want it right now bup, bup, bupaba, it’s booze. Next question?”
After Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley briefed relevant lawmakers on Capitol Hill, it seemed as if Republicans and Democrats agreed on nothing except for that there was no “kill everybody” order.
Christy griped about the show’s portrayal of President Trump in a Dec. 16 post:
James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump character was simultaneously drugged up on Adderall and Ambien on NBC’s Saturday Night Live when he falsely described his seizing of a sanctioned Venezuelan oil tanker as piracy and bragged about shooting down Santa Claus.
Fake Trump was aboard Air Force One taking questions from reporters when he turned to Andrew Dismukes, “Now, can a man ask me a question, please? Yes, you’re kind of a man, what you got?”
The bit about desiring a question from a male reporter was SNL’s way of claiming that Trump only seems to go after female reporters because apparently Jim Acosta was not available for comment. As for Dismukes, he asked, “Okay, Mr. President, any comment on the oil tanker you seized off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday?”
Christy then huffed in defense of Trump’s taking over ships: “Seizing sanctioned ships is not piracy, unless you also think Russia is a victim of a piratical Germany.”
After the show riffed on Santa, Christy closed with one more whine: “Santa is a magical being, so even if someone shot him, he would survive so that he could deliver coal to SNL.” How does Christy know that?