Check Out Highlights from SNL's 'Weekend Update', 4/4

By: Apr. 06, 2015
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Below check out highlights from SNL'S "WEEKEND UPDATE" from the April 4th broadcast:

COLIN JOST - "Despite Hillary Clinton's claims that she used her personal email while Secretary of State to avoid carrying more than one device, a new report shows that she emailed with her iPad in addition to her Blackberry. Even more alarming, her email signature was, "sent from my Benghazi cover-up device."

JOST - "New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez was indicted this week on federal corruption charges. It's no surprise, considering that a senator taking a bribe is the New Jersey state seal."

MICHAEL CHE - "For the first time in nearly twenty years, Tiger Woods is not ranked in the list of the top 100 golfers in the world. This according to a recent toast at an all-white country club."

CHE - "ABC is denying that Barbara Walters wants to replace Rosie O'Donnell with Monica Lewinsky on "The View." Said an ABC spokesman, "We have not had contractual relations with that woman." Maybe an oral agreement, but that doesn't count."

JOST - "Researchers in China have developed shape-shifting liquid metal machines. While researches in the U.S. have developed a breakfast sandwich with hash browns on the inside! So China, good luck with your real -life version of the dude from "Terminator 2." Here in America, we'll be eating tacos for breakfast."

JOST - "Tomorrow is Easter Sunday. So to all you Christians out there, "Happy Easter." And to the Jews, "Nice try.""

CHE - "The parents of a six year-old Indonesian boy who is addicted to smoking say that he has cut down to five cigarettes a day. That's very impressive considering how stressed he's been at the sneaker factory."

CHE - "Nevada's famed Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel is searching for a "quality" control tester who will be paid to have sex with the prostitutes and rate their performance. The prostitutes will be graded on a scale from "F" to "Don't F.""

JOST - "A woman in Brooklyn gave birth in the back of an Uber car on the way to the hospital. This according to a zero star review from the next passenger."

ABOUT THE SHOW

"Saturday Night Live," NBC's Emmy Award-winning late-night comedy showcase, enters its 40th season in September for another year of laughs, surprises and great performances.

Since its inception in 1975, "SNL" has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of their generation. As The New York Times noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy-winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999, "in DEFIANCE of both time and show business convention, 'SNL' is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture." At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.

The program has won 45 Emmy Awards and now holds the title for the most nominated television show in Emmy history with 187 nominations. "SNL" has been honored twice, in 1990 and 2009, with the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and cited as "truly a national institution." "Saturday Night Live" was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame by the National Association of Broadcasters, and the show continues to garner the highest ratings of any late-night television program, entertaining millions each week.

"SNL" sketches still bear repeating on Monday mornings. With live show surprises, especially those timed to the election - Barack Obama's surprise walk-on, Hillary Clinton's performance opposite Amy Poehler and Senator John McCain's "Weekend Update" appearance - "SNL" is making headlines and influencing the political dialogue while skewering it at the same time. Beyond politics, the show's cast of recurring characters and its take on pop culture targets remain spot-on. The addition of the show's Emmy Award-winning SNL Digital Shorts continues to keep the show as current today as it was when it debuted.


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