This week’s “Weekend Update”. Saturday evening live was packed with election material leading up to Election Day, with hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che trading jokes, as well as an appearance by Heidi Gardner parodying country star Reba McEntire as a celebrity dodging a political endorsement.

Jost kicked things off with a joke: “Next week the American people will decide whether the next President will be Kamala Harris or everyone SNL will be checked.”

The segment then turned to the various – for lack of a better word – presidential candidate Donald Trump. interesting choices at last-minute campaign rallies and media appearances, including parading around with his name on a garbage truck (and not opening the door handle, almost falling), piling on the fake tanner, and appearing like he’s giving a blowjob on a microphone stand. At this point, Che addressed Trump’s much-publicized rally at Madison Square Garden.

“Speakers hurled insults at minority groups, used Nazi rhetoric and suggested Democrats should be slaughtered, but this lady (referring to a photo of Harris) got a funny laugh, so I still can’t decide,” Che joked.

“A comedian at Trump’s rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of trash,’ and I take offense to that as someone who proudly grew up on an actual island of trash,” Jost added, referring to Staten Island.

The segment was subsequently introduced SNL heavyweight Gardner in an all-McEntire outing. When asked by Jost who she’s voting for, she said, “Call me Shawn Mendes because I’m still on it,” referring to the singer-songwriter’s recent comments about speculation surrounding his sexuality.

As the piece progressed, Gardner further increased her wild gestures and rising and bobbing from her chair. “We were Methodist-atheist. Mom was a Republican and Dad was Pennywise – I’m a redhead, aren’t I?” she began, adding, “Mom worked 59 jobs just to keep us in school, and Dad only had one: feeding kids. My mother weighed only 32 kilos and 67 of them were breasts.”

Gardner’s chaotic cosplay ended with her voting “online” by entering her Social Security number, credit card information and an image of “your red and curly one” while pantomiming herself taking a nude photo.

Closing out “Weekend Update,” Marcello Hernandez and Jane Wickline stole the show, playing a “couple who you can’t believe are together.” Hernandez played a brash, Himbo type in Grant, while Wickline portrayed a quiet, studious Barnard student who got her master’s degree in “18th century graveyards.” With perfect comedic timing in both players’ parts, Hernandez’s boisterous interruptions matched well with Wickline’s soft poetry.