Donald Trump bore the brunt of the “SNL U.K.” Weekend Update on Saturday, with co-hosts Paddy Young and Ania Magliano joking that the President had shat himself ahead of the White House Correspondents Dinner attack.
After describing the gunman’s storming of the Washington event as “an undeniably terrifying event,” Magliano delivered the punchline: “President Donald Trump shat himself” – and, she noted, “minutes later the shots rang out.” Young added that Melania Trump was swift to admonish anyone making light of the incident – “we’re real people,” she said, while “blinking sideways.”
The segment opened with the King Charles and Queen Camilla state visit to Washington. Young said Charles had presented Trump with an engraved bell and that, ideally, the President would wear it “on a collar like a cat to warn young women that he’s approaching.” Magliano described Camilla’s bejewelled necklace as “Diana’s horcrux” and reported that her fuchsia gown color complemented “King Charles’s iconic hot pink fingers,” while Melania had greeted the King with a kiss, “clicking her jaw against his to spell out, save me in Morse code.”
A fake professional lip reader appeared as a guest to decode conversations between the leaders, with results that had little to do with diplomacy. His readings had Trump and Charles debating whether they would rather have a prawn growing from their neck or no neck at all, while Melania and Camilla were apparently locked in debate over potato chips flavors.
On the local front, Magliano took aim at Reform U.K. party leader Nigel Farage’s failure to declare a £5 million ($6.7 million) donation from Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto billionaire. “If found negligent by the Electoral Commission, Farage could face an email of up to 400 words,” Young said. Reform’s position, Magliano noted, was that the donation was a purely personal gift requiring no declaration – but for £5 million, she said, “Nigel must have been providing some sort of valuable service.” “That’s why Nigel Farage is my power bottom of the week,” she concluded.
Other targets included a new endometriosis scanning technique that Magliano said would be made available to women “just as soon as doctors work out how to make it incredibly painful,” and a survey finding that 39% of young Brits living at home report reduced sexual activity. “So if you want to keep having sex with your parents, move out,” Magliano said. A West Ham soccer team supporter who cooked a steak on a train with hair straighteners prompted a pun from Young: “There was a bit of beef, but I straightened it out.”
The segment also mocked the lineup for the next series of “Celebrity Traitors,” which Young noted includes Maya Jama, James Acaster and Ayatollah Khomeini. “I’ll be honest, I didn’t really like ‘Celebrity Traitors,’” Young added. “That’s why I call all those pigs who turned their back on [disgraced MasterChef host] Greg Wallace.”
“SNL U.K.” was hosted this week by Amy Lou Wood.