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    How a post-election episode tackled Trump’s victory

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    “Saturday Night Live” wants to get on the good side of newly elected President Donald Trump.

    The post-election episode of the sketch comedy show began with the cast delivering an initially serious message about the Republican candidate’s victory. “For many people, including many people watching this show now, the results were shocking and even horrifying,” said Ego Nwodim, while Kenan Thompson noted that Trump “openly called for revenge on his political enemies.”

    In light of that, the stars spent the rest of the cold trying to stay off such a list, jokingly claiming that they always supported Trump and even voted for him.

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    “We have been with you all this time!” said Thompson. Bowen Yang claimed, “We have never wavered in our support of you,” and Marcello Hernández insisted, “Every single person on this stage voted for you!” Sarah Sherman also sarcastically described Trump as “the man I want my future children to look up to,” and Colin Jost threw his “Weekend Update” co-anchor under the bus by declaring, “I hate how the lamestream media – Michael Che – tries to twist it to make you look foolish.”

    James Austin Johnson, who plays Trump on the show, debuted a new, more favorable take on the newly elected president, called “hot jacked Trump.”

    Wearing a black tank top that showed off his muscles, Johnson said, “From now on, we’re going to do a very flattering portrayal of Trump, because, honestly, he’s my hero, and he’s going to be an incredible president and, ultimately, king.” We love you, buddy!”

    Yang joked about getting drunk on Wednesday morning after the election before Nwodim told Trump, “We can’t wait to see what you do with the country this time.” I keep waking up screaming in the middle of the night. Of joy, of course. !”

    Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris was nowhere to be found in the opening sketch, but after Thompson said Elon Musk could take them to Mars if something goes wrong during Trump’s second term, Dana Carvey debuted his impression of the Tesla CEO. The comedian jumped across the stage like Musk did at Trump’s rallies and announced, “Seriously, I run the country now.”

    Bill Burr’s monologue is about Trump’s victory and receives mixed reactions

    Bill Burr hosted the episode and delivered a monologue that seemed to get a muted response from the audience and drew mixed reactions on social media. The comic started with two minutes of non-political jokes before turning to “what y’all want to talk about”: the election.

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    “Alright ladies, you’re 0 and 2 against this guy!” he said.

    Burr looked at what went wrong for the Democrats and joked that women should stop wearing pantsuits.

    “Stop trying to respect yourself,” he joked. “You don’t win office on policy. You have to step it up a little bit. I’m not saying go all out, but find the happy medium between Applebee’s and ‘Your dad didn’t stick around.’ You all know how to get a free drink.”

    “Listen, I know a lot of ugly women – feminists, I mean – don’t want to hear this message. But just tease them a little. Make a farmer feel like he has a chance. Turn a state around a little.”

    Burr also wondered how anyone could have been indecisive considering Harris and Trump were the “most opposite people ever,” saying he “can’t believe Trump didn’t win this thing” right after surviving an assassination attempt. “If you were running for president as a kid and you got shot and you didn’t die, that was the end of the election!”

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    Some on social media were angry about Burr’s monologue, with one X user asking, “Who at SNL approved of Bill Burr and his unfunny misogynistic monologue?” Another wrote: “Bill Burr calling feminists ‘ugly women’ on the first post-election snl has radicalized me to a level I couldn’t possibly comprehend when I thought I had been radicalized to the highest degree earlier this week.”

    In YouTube comments, some Burr fans suggested this wasn’t his finest hour. “He’s my absolute favorite of all time. It was the first time I think he seemed nervous,” read one comment, while another said: “I finally saw Bill bomb.” But others were more supportive, with one X post calling the monologue “one of the funniest sets I’ve seen on ‘SNL.’ “

    Burr also drew criticism with a joke about getting the flu and wondering if he caught the flu from “an Asian.” He continued by saying that he actually caught it from a “shoeless cowboy on a plane.”

    Colin Jost and Michael Che Joke About Election Results on ‘Weekend Update’: ‘He’s Invincible’

    Jost opened the “Weekend Update” by joking that after Trump’s victory, “we learned that Democrats don’t actually know how to rig elections.”

    “It’s like we’re living in a computer simulation, and whoever runs Trump has a cheat code. He is invincible. He looks like a character from ‘Grand Theft Auto’ throwing a prostitute out of a car and driving straight to the White House. But don’t worry, if I know the Democrats, they will take a long look in the mirror, learn from their mistakes and run Biden again in 2028.”

    Che sipped from a cocktail glass throughout the segment while wondering why he thought Harris even had a chance.

    “How did I let you convince me that rural Pennsylvania would pick the Jamaican Indian lady?” he joked. “Obviously I’ve spent too much time with you white liberals and your crazy optimism.”

    “SNL” returns next week with Charli XCX pulling double duty as host and musical guest.

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