Co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che additionally made their extremely anticipated joke swap
A day after Rudy Giuliani was hit with a large, $148 million judgement in a defamation case introduced by two Atlanta ballot employees, SNL‘s Weekend Replace rubbed within the penalties of his many false claims.
“You would possibly as properly simply make it a billion [dollars], as a result of there’s no manner he pays it. At this level, they solely name Giuliani the mayor of 9/11 as a result of that’s all that’s left in his checking account,” Jost joked.
Giuliani’s lawyer had instructed the eight-person Washington, D.C. jury this week that in the event that they have been to award the plaintiffs $43 million–the quantity they’d claimed–then that may quantity to “the civil equal of the dying penalty” for his shopper.
Jost went on, as an image confirmed on display screen of the disgraced Trump ally with black shoe dye working down his face throughout one in all his post-election conspiracy mongering press conferences.
“Giuliani–amazingly, seen right here in higher occasions–mentioned through the trial that it was an accident that he attacked the plaintiffs repeatedly on social media, with the choose noting there’s so much of accidents happening,” Jost commented. “Stated Giuliani, ‘Oh, you would scent that?’”
Giuliani, in fact, can be dealing with prosecution in a Georgia RICO case associated to Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, so his authorized troubles are removed from over.
Later within the section, Jost and co-anchor Michael Che made their extremely anticipated trade of jokes.
