Saturday Night Live Weekend Update hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che are hardly hurting for targets here. Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, R. Kelly and Bill Cosby, Fox News and… well, Fox News is singularly terrible, it doesn’t need a pairing.
But the biggest beneficiary of this Weekend Update’s rapid-fire barrage of one-liners is none other than Mitch McConnell. The U.S. Senate’s obstructionist minority leader gets an extended torching, with Jost scoring two big laughs as he paints an exaggerated picture of the Kentucky Senator’s penchant for evil doings.