On Wednesday, Mitch McConnell introduced that he’ll be stepping down as Senate Republican Chief later this yr. Whereas he’ll stay in his present place till November, Saturday Night time Stay’s Colin Jost and Michael Che got here to “Weekend Replace” able to roast the hell out of the sometimes-glitchy senator from Kentucky.
Che started the operating gag by saying McConnell’s retirement, full with a photograph of McConnell smiling from ear to ear, which he described as a photograph of the senator “catching up on information from the Center East.”
“McConnell has been chief for nearly 20 years,” Che stated, “however he first acquired concerned in politics again in 1968 when he misplaced a fiddle contest to the satan.”
Che went on to joke that whereas McConnell is seemingly leaving his submit as a consequence of a troublesome relationship with Donald Trump, “simply since you hate anyone doesn’t imply you’ll be able to’t nonetheless have a really profitable working relationship with them,” because the digital camera panned over to Jost.
The gag then shifted over to Jost, who confirmed the identical beaming picture of McConnell, which he claimed was of Mitch “strolling out of a theater after watching 12 Years a Slave” then shared it once more, this time describing it as what McConnell would possibly appear to be “after rearranging a blind lady’s furnishings.” He joked that McConnell would quickly get replaced by a “frozen embryo holding an assault rifle.”
Lastly, he switched to a photograph of a still-smiling McConnell giving an enthusiastic thumbs up, which Jost stated was of the senator “watching a single mom promote her blood for diaper cash.”
