Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update, which famously saw Norm Macdonald make O.J. Simpson the target of many a punchline from behind the desk some thirty years ago, marked the former football player’s death with a quite different tone.
“O.J. Simpson died this week at the age of 76 after a battle with prostate cancer–that was planted on him by the LAPD,” Michael Che joked.
Colin Jost then riffed on the Los Angeles Times erroneously writing “Trump” in place of “Simpson” when mentioning his 2017 release on parole from a Nevada prison after having served nine years for kidnapping and armed robbery.
“It’s not a great sign for Trump that even autocorrect thinks he belongs in jail,” joked Jost of the indicted former president, who is expected to appear in a Manhattan court Monday for the start of his criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business records. Trump is also facing felony charges in three other jurisdictions.
Jost then went after Trump, who has struck waffling stances on abortion recently. Jost took issue with Trump’s hyperbolic comments about what he supposedly thinks Democrats are calling for.
“In a video on Truth Social, Donald Trump falsely said that Democrats support abortion up to the ninth month and beyond, saying the baby is executed after birth,” Jost said. “But he only thinks that happens because when Trump was a baby, a bunch of time travelers showed up trying to kill him.”
Earlier, Jost trashed the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a Civil War-era law banning abortion except to save the mother’s life.
“It’s probably not great to adopt healthcare rules from a time when the only two things doctors prescribed were prayer and cocaine,” he joked.
Later in the segment, college basketball star Caitlin Clark stopped by to discuss her entry in the WNBA draft, which takes place in New York on Monday.
But first, Clark chided Che for his past jokes about women’s sports, with help from a montage that Jost put together.
