‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and ‘Stranger Things’ mocked
“Weekend Update” hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost brought their usual pop culture snark to “Saturday Night Live” on the Dec. 13 episode, and several topics were of interest to Variety readers this week. He is one of the silliest jokes in pop culture.
On Trump’s recent Kennedy Center events:
“Last week, President Trump hosted several events at the Kennedy Center, including an awards ceremony for Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor and rock band KISS, as well as a musical performance by The Village People. Which begs the question: Is Donald Trump a gay man from 1978? Trump also said the proposed merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers Discovery could be a problem, adding “bribery.” In response, Netflix is offering Trump one night with the ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters.’”
About the Golden Globe nominations:
“The Golden Globe nominations have been announced, with the most nominations going to the film ‘One Battle After Another’ and the fewest nominations going to Michael Che’s ‘Hold Up, Medea Got a Daughter?’”
From Jane Wickline’s song about the young cast of “Stranger Things,” with interjections by Jost:
“We are programming monsters that we will soon lose control of. They are taking over every task and the singularity is approaching. They may become smarter than us, will they be our downfall? I think we all know the topic I am addressing. We don’t have much time to stop them, we have to kill them while they are still weak: the child actors from ‘Stranger Things.'”
Jost: “I really thought you were talking about AI.”
“AI is just a distraction. The real threat here is Sadie Sink and her child starring in ‘Stranger Things.’‘ ‘Stranger Things’ is coming to an end. They will have so much free time. What if they become more self-aware? We have to keep them busy. They can mobilize their followers, 60 million followers. We have to keep them busy.”
Jost: “I just don’t understand what you think the danger is!”
“The ‘Stranger Things’ kids use a cubic kilometer of water every minute. If there is a hell, Gaten Matarazzo belongs there. They are crushing the environment and killing the economy. Finn Wolfhard is the devil to me.”
The six of them are now sitting in a room and preparing for the next elections. And for these reasons I support Vecna.”
Jost: “Vecna! Jane, these kids are harmless. All they do is go on ‘Hot Ones’.”
“Colin, things that start out funny can become important. Joe Rogan made people eat bugs, and now he’s the President of the United States. Everyone is focused on ‘Stranger Things,’ and they ignore the strangeness of the strangers on the Internet, thinking that those six strange kids are not a danger, but that they are the devil. We are alienated from the truth, but I have a plan. I’ll tie some cheese on a string, put a stick under a box big enough to catch six strange kids, I’ll be a hero I will win a prize. “You stopped the apocalypse,” President Chatbot will beam at me.
Check out some of this week’s weekend update below.
