SNL: Weekend Update

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Biden Calls for Gun Control

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Trump claiming capitol rioters were "hugging and kissing" police.




Sidney Powell on Being Sued by Dominion

Sidney Powell stops by Weekend Update to discuss being sued for defamation by Dominion for making false voter fraud claims during the 2020 Election.




National Puppy Day and Black Muppets

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like a Goldman-Sachs executive buying Jeffrey Epstein's mansion for $50 million.




Bowen Yang on the Rise of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

Bowen Yang stops by Weekend Update to discuss the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States.

[DFW]

1. "Video not available in your country"

Germany really goes overboard sometimes.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Damn! I am sorry!

I really don't get that at all. I've heard the same thing from some Canadian DUers occasionally, too.

[DFW]

3. I'm used to it by now.

Someone, probably with no connection to SNL at all, has decided that their clips can't shown here, or else big green monsters will show up on our doorsteps and devour our first-born.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. It really makes very little sense, especially now

With the advent of the internets, pretty much everyone, everywhere, is aware of events, including entertainment, in other countries. We have rapidly become a global community.

[DFW]

5. There are few things that European bureaucracy can't mess up

The death penalty has been abolished here, but they would probably revive it for anyone proposing to make European bureaucracy more efficient or people-friendly.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Well, the way things have gone in the U.S. for the past few years, especially 2020,

We have no right to criticize anyone else. Well, almost anyone.

[DFW]

7. I live in Germany and am married to one of the friendly natives

She was a social worker here and fought bureaucracy and bureaucrats all her working life.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Oh, I certainly remember her and she's lovely.

I'm just grateful that we can finally begin patching up our relationships with our long-time allies.

[DFW]

12. There was a big sigh of relief over most of Europe when Biden was declared the winner

Only the authoritarian rulers of Hungary, Poland and Turkey were sorry they had lost their useful soulmate. Except for a tiny sliver of land and part of the city if Istanbul, Turkey really isn't European anyway. Its languages, culture(s) and main religion, except for the few pockets of Greek ethnicity left over from ancient times, are Asian.

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13. I can imagine! And they weren't the only ones! (Us!)

And thanks for the clarification. When I said "almost," I was thinking of the obvious ones, Putin and Kim Jong-Un. I feel particularly bad about Russia since I've been there, accompanied my grandmother and her peace group back in the late '80s. And under Gorbachev, there was such hope.

[DFW]

14. I know. A friend of mine knows him, was even invited over for his 80th birthday party

She has been there a lot, graduated summa from Princeton in political science, etc etc., a real genius.

She could go on for hours about the place. I never went there until 1998 when hope was already starting to fade fast. They used to laugh at my Russian, asking me if I had had a nice sleep these last 100 years. Never having lived there myself, I didn't know any of the Soviet era slang at all, and I sounded to them as if I had just stepped out of a Dostoyevsky novel.

Not as funny as what a college friend told me though, back in the 1970s. He had longish hair, sort of a hippie holdover, but was REALLY smart and a Classics major. He was fluent in ancient Greek, but didn't know modern Greek. He spent one summer hiking trough the mountains and small villages of Greece, and said some of the more remote places thought he was an ancient Orthodox Saint, come back down from his mountain sanctuary after 2000 years, speaking the Greek of his biblical contemporaries.

[SheltieLover]

9. K&R!

Ty!

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Thanks!

This was my favorite part of the show - and Colin and Michael have evolved into a really great team.

[SheltieLover]

11. Yw!

Ty for posting! They are a great team.

[multigraincracker]

15. Thank you so much from someone whose

eyes start to close when the 11 O'clock news comes on.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Awww, you're more than welcome

That's why I post these things, I know that not everyone here stays up as late as I do.

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17. Very late morning with Rhiannon! My week's getting a good start!!

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Thanks, my friend!

Mine is too, I'm going for Moderna shot #2 today - wish me luck!