The best part of SNL is Weekend Update.

3:01 For the record Colin is married to Scarlett Johannson (obviously the joke is in reference to the "white-washing" controversy of Ghost in the Shell).

About halfway through each SNL episode is a segment called Weekend Update that Che and Jost host. I think they only do joke swapping about once a season.

I love it when Colin and Che write the stories for each other. Che always gives Colin the most racist comments to say. It's hilarious! SNL is good, though many skits need shortening. Especially the intro sketch which seems to take forEVER to do.

Che’s joke about Scarlett Johansson playing Sammy Davis, Jr. was because Colin Jost is married to her.

I NEVER miss this show. It's a weekly sketch show on Saturday Nights (obviously), These guys are the writers of the show, this sketch is called "Week-end Update". When Colin Jost read the joke about Scarlette Johanson, it's funny because Colin and Scarlette are married in real life. It debuted in 1975.

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Just for clarity, Saturday Night Live has had roughly the same format since it started in 1975. It's mostly sketches, but every week has a guest host (whatever entertainer has something to promote that week) and a musical guest. There's a cold open sketch that is normally related to the national political news that week. Playing a president is a big honor for comedians from Chevy Chase playing Gerald Ford in the 70s to Alec Baldwin's Trump (I forget who is doing Biden now). That sketch ends with someone or everyone yelling "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" Cue credits, followed by a monologue by the guest host (the first was George Carlin and it is still available online. Normally there is then a taped segment, often a commercial parody. And then a few sketches, the first musical guest performance, and then Weekend Update, the news desk parody that Che and Jost do now. It's been hosted by many performers over the years from Chevy Chase to Norm MacDonald, Tina Fey with both Amy Poehler and Jimmy Fallon as cohost, Seth Meyers, etc. Then it's more sketches and a second musical guest performance. It runs an hour and a half with commercials. Huge proving ground for many of the biggest comedy stars of the last half century.

I love these dudes. This is great tv 😂

One of my favorite guest hosts was Betty White, they did a Mother's Day theme and she was HILARIOUS!!! Plus it had all of the ladies that were no longer on the show as well (Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, & Maya Rudolph) who are icons themselves.

This is "Weekend Update" a long-running segment within SNL. The first anchor was Chevy Chase in 1975. Jane Curtain followed him and the segment has always been quite popular. One of my favorite regular players who would show up as an extra back in the day was Gilda Radner playing Roseanne Roseannadanna. Brilliant comedy.

Colin Jost and Michael Che are the head writers at SNL. This segment, Weekend Update, is usually on after the musical guest's first performance. It's a mock news show and the cast or host often feature in character to be interviewed, or have their own segment. This swapping of jokes usually happens once or twice a year. As it to be expected from a show created from scratch every week, some SNL episodes are weaker than others. But, especially under these guys (previous Update anchors include Chevy Chase, Tiny Fey, Amy Poehler, Norm MacDonald, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers), Update rarely fails to deliver. Che has a running joke about Jost being the whitest man ever, as thus has to be racist, which is why he makes him say those things. The other avenue of comedy is making fun of Scarlett Johansson, Jost's wife (who often appears in sketches as Ivanka Trump).

I've seen all of their joke swaps and the one at the 4:42 mark is hands down the worst one. The clip cut it off but the audiance reaction went on for much longer than that and Colin said to Michael "You are going to get me murdered"

yes please react more of these to.

Most SNL reaction clips are blocked. Some of my favorite bits include Kate Middleton meets the Queen staring Anne Hathaway. Love Island UK parody. And Debbie Downer at Disney World. And anything with Kristin Whig.

SNL is a comedy sketch show. This is only one segment called "Weekend Update." It's a weekly staple of the show, and has been consistently funny since the show first started. A lot of legendary comedians have hosted it. Also, Che wrote a few jokes about Scarlett Johansson for Colin to read, as Scarlett is Colin's wife. Everyone has their opinion about SNL and what era was the best/worst. In my opinion it's never been terrible, but it's definitely had its ups and downs. I'd say the 80's/90's era was the best, but I was a kid in the 90's, so rose-tinted glasses and all. Also, not all of these were joke swaps. They only do that once or twice a year. The latter half of these were just regular jokes I think.

Weekend Update is consistently the best thing about SNL. Please do more lol

They do a segment called "Weekend Update" where they make jokes about things going on in the news. Occasionally, they do something like this where they've written jokes for the other one to say. The rest of SNL is sketch comedy and a musical guest.

In case you're wondering why they used Scarlett Johansson in that joke. That guy is married to her

This is all from SNL and Michael and Colin do this sketch all the time. Colin writes the jokes for Michael and Michael writes the jokes for Colin

I usually record snl and will fast forward to weekend update.

This is a segment of SNL called weekend update. They take news items and make jokes about it.

It's from a segment on SNL called "Weekend Update", usually in the middle of the show, where they go through a joke newscast. They have been doing one joke swap a year, around christmas time. I'm pretty sure these are not all joke swaps.

What I love about SNL Weekend Update is they will cover real issues with the ugly truth in a humorous way. Especially when they write each other's jokes. Also, Scarlett Johannsson is Colin's wife. She has made some tone-deaf comments in the past, so Che often roasts her through Colin.

Hi Kabir! That was a fun video, some good stuff in there. You ought to check out some of the SNL'S from the '70's. They had some really great talent's. Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray to name a few.

SNL Premired in Oct 1975. I was 7 months old 😅

Thanks for video I love SNL

Weekend Update is the longest running skit on the show, having been a part of it since 1975. Many of the Norm Macdonald clips you've seen were from when he hosted the segment back in the mid-1990's.

My favorite segment of SNL since the 80s.

Useful context: SNL is a comedy/variety show, where high-profile celebs often appear in satirical parody sketches, sometimes as themselves, sometimes opposite an SNL cast member playing the celeb - one example is Kate McKinnon, while playing Hillary Clinton, went into a bar where the bartender was actually Hillary. Weekend Update is just one section of the show, set up as a parody of the news. Colin Jost and Michael Che (pronounced Shay) present this section which sometimes has guests, and they often (typically at Christmas) do the blind joke-swap segment. Che usually writes horrifically racist jokes, leaving Colin absolutely mortified! One more piece of context - Colin is married to Scarlett Johansson, so he often has to read jokes involving her.

that is his wife on the sammy davis JR joke

They do comedy sketches and this is the news which is more comedy than news.

Have not seen these guys before - HILARIOUS! 🤣

Colin is married to Scarlett Johansson.

Kabir having watched this maybe you will enjoy SNL "Seen Here" clips. Those are hilarious!!

SNL is a live audience skit comedy show with a celebrity weekly host and a musical act that starts at 11:30pm every Saturday night. Weekend Update is a segment that’s been consistent for decades and there are different hosts for different sets of casts. Before Che and Colin, the weekend hosts were Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

The most recent one from around Christmas is the most savage one where Colin brought the heat and almost one upped Che - but Che had a secret weapon.

You have to do the best of Stefon on Weekend Update 😂

The best part of SNL is the Weekend Update which is their news segment. My favorite skit is Julia from Temecula.

Weekend Update is my favorite part of SNL.

This is SNL my favorite part of the show. These guys are so funny and often get out of character laughing. PS: You should check out some of the old ones with Eddie Murphy ,John Belushi Steve Martin , Miss Retina , Chevy Chase and many more of old guys from the 70s its just a great show .

"Weekend Update". it's the News segment of SNL.

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You should react to any SNL episode of “BLACK JEOPARDY “. Everyone is hilarious. BTW Colin is married to Scarlett J. That is why the joke about Sammy Davis is extra Funny.

they're a perfect team⚛😀

Weekend Update is the best part of SNL.

Scarlett Johannsen is Colin's wife.

3:00 Fun fact Scarlett Johansson is Colin’s wife which is the punch line of that joke lol

Colin Jost (the white guy) is married to Scarlet Johanson, which makes the Frank Sinatra movie joke even funnier

the second written 'joke' actually happened,.. a school was targeted by mistake

These 2 are very popular in USA 😂

There's way funnier stuff that Che and Colin wrote for each other out there. Che knocks himself out to make Colin say awful things and poor Colin just keeps shaking his head and telling Che that he's going to get him killed. It might be fun to just do a live reaction to a full episode of weekend update where they're each reading the other's jokes. A full Weekend Update episode is about 13 minutes, so anything shorter is a clip.

I'll be seeing Colin Jost and Michael Che tomorrow night at the DAR's Constitution Hall in D.C. Looking forward to it since SNL has been off the air due to the strike. Eager to see if they comment on current events ... which I'm sure they will.

Scarlet Johannson is Colin's wife.

Scarlett Johansson is Colin’s wife by the way which is why Che tricked Colin in to saying her name.

Che is seriously brutal to Jost! 😂😂😂

I've been watching since the 70's, sketch comedy and satire at it's best despite what some millenials say. People need to get a since of humor. Scarlet is Colin's wife.

Just google then they have a dozen of these .. whenever I need to laugh inappropriately I watch one

It is part of SNL.

As one who's dad used to let me stay up to watch Guilda Radner, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Garret Morris, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray etc on SNL... SNL has sucked for decades. It jumped the shark in the 90's.

It really shows the distance when a show like SNL is unknown by a person from England as you do not know really about the show. It may be out of touch for you on some topics but maybe take yourself back to the start and or origins of the show and the great cast of Legends it all started with.

A lot of these aren't joke swaps, just jokes

Pronounced Chay. Don't know why this is not more popular.

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Pull up the SNL videos with Stefon. More really wacky cold reading of some questionable material. It's best when Bill Hader can't stop himself from laughing.

Everyone complaining about how SNL isn't funny like it "used to be" likely don't even give it a chance, and ironically, end up sounding like boomers. Have you actually tried to rewatch some of the skits from the 1970s? They're not exactly gut-busting, or all that consistently good. If the new SNL tried to do the shark/candygram skit, or Roseanne Rosanna Dana (two that are considered "classics"), you'd point to it as evidence that the show has lost its edge.

I know you guys aren't really taught a lot about US history, but I'm assuming the Civil Rights Movement was discussed. Yes, no? And yes, this is one of the ongoing skits from SNL over the history of the show.

Dude the title of the video is "Joke swap" and you clearly don't get it. The jokes Colin is reading is written by Michael Che. Che's reading jokes written by Colin. That's what joke swap means. 2:30, he's not a savage, Che wrote the joke.

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In Living Color, Madtv and Dave Chappelle were wayyyy funnier.

I don’t really watch snl unless it’s a good guess like bill burr. Most of the sketches aren’t really funny since they’re writing them weekly and don’t have time to fully punch up but weekend update I’ll watch since they post it in clips. Think you may have already reacted to bills monologue but if you haven’t seen bill burr Sam Adams snl sketch its pretty funny

The “Weekend Update” segments, and sometimes the cold opens, are the only funny parts of SNL anymore. The skits that make up most of the airtime nowadays are just a waste of time and seems the musical guest is never any good.

Man you don't know what you're missing.

The recent years of this show stink. The old SNL was the best

I didn't find this particularly funny, just mildly amusing in places. Much prefer Aussie, Kiwi or British humour.

They were funny. SNL is overall not funny anymore. The show had been great but not for at least 20 years.

You haven't missed much. For years 90% of the skits have been terrible.

SNL isn't funny so don't waste your time. This is the only funny part

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