‘SNL’ Weekend Update Bashes Trump’s Gaffes, Katie Britt’s Acting

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump’s verbal blunders and the GOP’s State of the Union rebuttal by Alabama Senator Katie Britt.

Reacting to how Trump had criticized President Joe Biden’s address to Congress Thursday, writing on Truth Social that “the words are not flowing smoothly out of his mouth,” co-anchor Colin Jost said in jest that “we can’t all speak with the effortless grace as Donald J. Trump.”

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A clip then played of the former president having trouble getting through a sentence at a recent campaign stop in North Carolina, with Jost joking afterward that it sounded as if “someone just inserted a colonoscopy camera.”

Jost later turned to Britt’s widely panned rebuttal, which SNL‘s cold open spoofed with Scarlett Johansson (Jost’s wife) as the senator.

After playing some of the most awkward moments from Britt’s remarks, Jost joked, “Those were all scenes from her one-woman show, ‘A Britt Much.’ It’s the play critics are calling, ‘Is she okay?'”

“That was honestly some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen me,” continued Jost, as a still flashed on screen of his character in the 2021 live-action animated film Tom and Jerry.

Also in the segment, co-anchor Michael Che addressed retiring Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, former Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch, and Sen. Mitch McConnell endorsing Trump.

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