SNL’s “Weekend Update” wasted no time lighting a fuse, and Colin Jost was the one holding the match. Reacting to the newly released photos of Jeffrey Epstein’s island—dropped by House Democrats earlier in the week—Jost delivered a detail that froze the room.
“I think definitely the craziest detail of these photos was that there was one room with just a dentist’s chair in it,” he said, setting up a punchline that made the audience instantly recoil.
The chair, he added, “seems very weird, but keep in mind: a lot of [Epstein’s] girlfriends still had braces.”
That line yanked a mix of groans and gasps from the crowd, and instead of backing off, Jost leaned right into it. “Oh,” he teased, “You think the victims should have crooked teeth?”
Once the shock wore off, he kept hammering, joking that the new images made Epstein’s island look “not as nice as I remember.”
Michael Che jumped in next, determined not to let his co-anchor own all the chaos. He rolled a doctored “Home Alone 2” clip—Macaulay Culkin asking Donald Trump, “Excuse me, where’s Jeffrey Epstein?” and Trump deadpanning back, “Down the hall and to the left.”
Che then went after Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, tossing up a photo of her grinning and saying, “Kristi Noem, seen here watching the end of Marley and Me…”
Jost circled back to Trump with another hit, this time over FIFA’s bizarre move to honor him. “FIFA actually invented a fake peace prize in Trump’s honor, and that’s why the trophy shows Trump’s gnarled hands dragging the entire earth into hell,” he cracked.
Che wrapped things up by riffing on the World Cup draw. With the U.S. set to take on Paraguay, he told viewers, “The U.S. team is heavily favored to beat Paraguay with the help of their star players: ICE.”
By the time the segment ended, the studio had run through every possible reaction—laughter, disbelief, and plenty of those sharp intakes of breath Jost seems to enjoy provoking.
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