“Saturday Night Live” dove into the controversy surrounding Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, his spouse and texts to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to problem Donald Trump’s election loss.
In a spoof of“Fox & Friends,” Ginni Thomas, performed by Kate McKinnon, appeared with the justice, performed by Kenan Thompson and is informed that “the left is losing their mind” over texts she despatched to Meadows earlier than the Jan. 6 riot on the Capitol.
“I don’t want any trouble,” she mentioned. “I take my duty as the Yoko Ono of the Supreme Court very seriously.”
Thomas defined her outlook as a easy one.
“All I want is a tidal wave of biblical vengeance to wash away the Biden crime family all the way to Gitmo and then we release the Kracken.”
Justice Thomas, in the meantime, could not appear to reply a single query definitively. Asked if the couple speaks about Ginni Thomas’ efforts to affect the Trump White House, he responded:
“Some say yes, some say no.”
Trump, performed by James Austin Johnson, was simply as ambiguous, at first. The former president appeared by telephone because the hosts, performed by Alex Moffatt, Heidi Gardner and Mikey Day, interacted.
“Did you commit a coup, sir?” Gardner’s Ainsley Earhardt requested.
The former president defined he did not just like the “p” in coup. “A take-back event,” he mentioned of Jan. 6. “A coup — perhaps.”
Asked about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on the Academy Awards ceremony, Trump recognized the incident as “slap” and Smith as a film he starred in, “Hitch.”
“I enjoyed slap,” he mentioned. “I was very impressed with my Hitch.”
The Oscars slap dominated a lot of the SNL episode, with host Jerrod Carmichael dedicating a good portion of his monologue to it. He mentioned SNL government producer Lorne Michaels inspired him to accomplish that.
“He said the nation needs to heal,” Carmichael mentioned. “You want me to do that? The nation don’t even know me. Heal the nation? I can’t even heal my family.”
A skit that includes Chris Redd as Smith targeted on what it may need been like to sit subsequent to Smith because the incident unfolded on the Dolby Theater final week.
Carmichael, portraying a seat filler, was excited to be subsequent to Smith till the star walked away, a slap sound was heard, and he returned and calmly sat down.
Smith yelled to Rock to keep his spouse’s identify out of his mouth.
Then he turned to Carmichael and mentioned, as if nothing occurred, “How about that selfie?”
“Everything is normal, y’all,” Smith mentioned later.
“Weekend Update” continued with the subject. Co-host Colin Jost began with a faux transfer, saying, “Intelligence officials say that Vladimir Putin is being misinformed by his advisors.”
“Which is kind of like Will Smith’s agent telling him, ‘You crushed it at the Oscars,” he mentioned.
Jost, who’s married to Scarlett Johansson, additionally declared that the slap “sets a terrible precedent for having to defend your wife at awards shows.”
Fellow “Weekend Update” host Michael Che lamented that he is uninterested in individuals demanding that comedians keep monitor of celebrities’ medical circumstances and points. Before being slapped, Rock joked that Jada Pinkett Smith, who suffers from hair loss, or alopecia, was going to star in “G.I. Jane 2.”
“I’m tired of people putting their own insecurities on our joke intentions,” Che mentioned.
The phase featured an look by O.J. Simpson, performed by Thompson, who mentioned, “Like Will Smith said in his speech, love will make you do crazy things. Allegedly.”
