Saturday Night time Reside‘s Weekend Replace had its enjoyable with the headlines this week, together with the naming of the brand new sovereign of the Vatican Metropolis State, Pope Leo XIV, the primary American within the position.
“As an American Catholic, I couldn’t be extra proud, which is a sin, and now I’m ashamed,” co-anchor Colin Jost started.
Born Robert Prevost, Jost continued that “you possibly can inform he’s from the South Aspect [of Chicago] as a result of he’s acquired his palms up,” which elicited a mixture of laughs and hesitant reactions from the viewers.
“This decide was a welcome shock for me as a result of after I heard the pope was a super-religious man from Chicago in a humorous gown, I used to be fearful it was Kanye,” he mentioned, referencing the rapper’s current affinity for white supremacist ideologies.
Addressing right-wing ire and assertions that the brand new decide is simply too progressive, Jost quipped, “I additionally love that conservatives are already complaining this pope is simply too woke. How woke can a 69-year-old man from Chicago be? It’s not like he got here out and was like, ‘Hey, I’m Pope Leo XIV, he/him.’ The truth is there are not any woke Catholics. In the event you’re a woke Catholic, you’re simply not a Catholic anymore.”
Another highlights:
Making a crack at Fox Information host Jeanine Pirro’s appointment as interim U.S. legal professional for Washington, D.C., co-host Michale Che mentioned she “celebrated with a bottle of wine each day for the final 50 years.”
Discussing insider experiences that President Donald Trump is trying to “create pressure” between potential successors Marco Rubio and vice chairman JD Vance, Jost joked that it was “largely by pointing at them and saying kiss.”
Whereas Trump’s proposed 100% tariff on motion pictures made outdoors the U.S. would devastate the movie trade, Che maintained it’s “no downside for me as a result of all the films I watch had been filmed in a Florida rental on a leather-based sofa.”
On POTUS’ want to reopen Alcatraz as a result of it represents one thing “horrible and exquisite and robust and depressing and weak,” Che quipped that these phrases are “additionally his nicknames for his 5 kids.”
Regardless of claiming that Catholics “beloved” Trump’s AI-generated pope picture, Che doubted “that anybody within the Catholic church could be into one thing so juvenile,” with the viewers taking a second to understand the double entendre.
Additionally on Weekend Replace: Marcello Hernandez’s reprisal of his enthusiastic but ill-informed Film Man, Mikey Day’s “A Man Who Simply Walked Into A Spiderweb” failing to debate Trump’s tariffs and Heidi Gardner’s “Dianne, the mother who’s solely examine New York on Fb” — the latter two highlighting their bodily comedy chops.
