SNL Weekend Update is coming back tonight! 9pm ET/8pm CT

[DesertRat]

Last edited Thu Aug 10, 2017, 08:59 PM - Edit history (2)

I think we could all use the laughs!

"Saturday Night Live" is sending "Weekend Update" anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che on a special assignment to host a four-week prime-time summer series covering news events before the show returns in the fall.

It hasn't even been three months since "SNL's" season finale, but it feels like a lifetime given the current, crazed news cycle.

Consider just some of the events the show wasn’t on air to poke fun at: Trump's "covfefe" tweet, James Comey’s congressional testimony, news of Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner meeting with a Russian lawyer, Chris Christie's beach trip, the GOP’s failed attempt to repeal Obamacare, O.J. Simpson being granted parole, Sean Spicer's departure, and the rise and fall of Anthony Scaramucci.

"Missing Scaramucci was sort of like missing Christmas," Jost told NBC News about the now former White House communications director, whose brief tenure included a profanity-filled interview with The New Yorker.

http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/snl-s-weekend-update-summer-edition-returns-help-make-sense-n790636

[Gothmog]

1. I will have to watch this tonight

[dalton99a]

2. Kick.

[Not Ruth]

3. Consistently the best part of SNL for years

Which is why they get full billing for roughly 2-3 minutes each per show. Will be interested to see if they have material for an entire show.

[DesertRat]

4. I'm sure they can easily fill the 30 min.

With all the craziness that's happened since they last aired in May.

"Weekend Update: Summer Edition" will be a mix of traditional behind-the-desk jokes, features and guest appearances from cast members and possibly other special guests.

[Brother Buzz]

5. Easily fill the 30 minutes?

There will be two hours of material in the writers inboxes every day of the week; their hardest job will be whittling it down to one hour a week.

[DesertRat]

8. The show is only 30 minutes

I agree, it will be hard to whittle down!

[Brother Buzz]

9. Ah, it is only 30 minutes - I totally misread my shitty 'new and improved' online TV guide

[theophilus]

6. I want to watch.....but

it will interfere with my Rachel viewing. I wish NBC wouldn't compete with itself in this manner. Rachel is at the top of the ratings heap. Will this be rebroadcast at any other time?

[DesertRat]

7. I don't think it will be rebroadcast

Here in AZ Rachel is on at 6pm and Weekend Update is on at 8pm.

Rachel is repeated 3 hours later, can you catch her then?

[highplainsdem]

10. Damn, I forgot. Missed the first 20 minutes before I saw this.

I'll have to look for video clips online.

[MiddleClass]

11. Please, please, please, what did I miss

[DesertRat]

12. It's not on here for another hour and 20 min.

I can let you know later.

[MiddleClass]

13. Thank you, can't wait

[DesertRat]

14. So funny, but it was over too fast!

Bill Hader was great playing Scaramucci!

Link to tweet

[MiddleClass]

17. Thank you, hysterical

I didn't think he sold the company, I thought regulators put a hold on that. Poetic license

[Revanchist]

15. Hulu shows snl

I wonder if they will also show this

[DesertRat]

16. They should!

[Yavin4]

18. SNL is just going to have to go 12 months a year to keep pace with Trump

Far, far too much comedy gold coming from this administration.

[phylny]

19. Football was on instead where I live. I was very disappointed to miss it :) n/t