‘SNL UK’ Weekend Update Jokes Trump ‘Sh*t Himself’ Before Attack
Donald Trump took the brunt of Saturday’s “SNL UK” Weekend Update, with co-hosts Paddy Young and Ania Magliano joking that the president had shat himself prior to attacking the White House Correspondents Dinner.
After describing the gunman’s storming of the Washington event as “an undeniably terrifying event,” Magliano delivered the punchline: “President Donald Trump shits himself” — and, she noted, “minutes later the shots rang out.” Young added that Melania Trump was quick to warn anyone making light of the incident — “we’re real people,” she said, as they “blinked sideways.”
The segment began with King Charles and Queen Camilla’s state visit to Washington. Young said Charles presented Trump with an engraved bell and that the president would, ideally, “wear it like a cat on a collar to warn young women that he is approaching.” Magliano described Camilla’s bejeweled necklace as “Diana’s horcrux” and reported that the color of her fuchsia dress complemented “King Charles’ iconic bright pink fingers,” while Melania had greeted the king with a kiss, “clicking her jaw against his to spell 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 lectures left Trump and Charles debating whether they would rather have a shrimp growing out of their necks or no necks at all, while Melania and Camilla were apparently locked in a debate about the flavors of potato chips.
Locally, Magliano took aim at Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage’s failure to declare a £5 million ($6.7 million) donation from Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto billionaire. “If the Electoral Commission is found negligent, Farage could be sent an email of up to 400 words,” Young said. Reform’s position, Magliano noted, was that the donation was a purely personal gift that did not need to be declared – but for £5 million, she said, “Nigel must have provided some sort of valuable service.” “That’s why Nigel Farage is my power bottom of the week,” she concluded.
Other targets included a new scanning technique for endometriosis that Magliano said would be made available to women “once doctors figure out how to make it incredibly painful,” and a study that found 39% of community-dwelling young Britons report reduced sexual activity. “So if you want to keep having sex with your parents, leave,” Magliano said. A West Ham football team supporter frying a steak with hair straighteners on a train led to a pun from Young: “There was a bit of beef in there, 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’m calling all those pigs who turned away [disgraced MasterChef host] Greg Wallace.”
“SNL UK” was hosted this week by Amy Lou Wood.
