Weekend Update on Hope Hicks's Resignation - SNL

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, including Hope Hicks resigning as White House Communications Director and Jared Kushner losing his security clearance. Hope Hicks (Cecily Strong) stops by to explain her resignation.
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[@GabrielGarciaRamos]

That priest joke was savage

[@argedismun2]

That wasn't a joke , he just stated facts

[@wms1650]

@@argedismun2 And now Nov. 2019 the Catholic Priest issue is completely resolved. Right??? Kind of like Jeffery Epstein and the powerful with underage girls. None will be held accountable or go to trial.

[@tehutibrim594]

Super savage

[@jamiemiller7316]

I saw this comment and thought "Huh, I wonder what that joke is going to be?" and then I heard it and boy, were you right.

[@randymillhouse791]

No, certain Priests are savages.

[@danboyle116]

Cecily Strong could possibly be the best member of the SNL cast. She plays her characters very well, is always funny and I've never seen her break once in any sketch. Even when people around her were losing it she always stayed true to her character. I like her more every time I see her.

[@cm3753]

Dan Boyle agreed

[@pooleb80]

She's got whatever 'it' is

[@therealMuNansen]

She also helped write some of the most "out there," subversive skits that help the show from getting stale.

[@acekenny9339]

Tied with Kate

[@markycypress8484]

Νο comparison, Kate is HILARIOUS!

[@YouGuessIGuess]

Cecily is definitely one of the best actors on the show. Even her one dimensional characters have layers.

[@homerunhitters333]

SORRY SNL! THE REAL HOPE HICKS IS HOTTER!! #TRUMPISWINNING!

[@jefflittle8913]

"SORRY SNL!" Good job. Now it's time to collect your check, Comrade.

[@everwhat013]

@homerun Yes, because that's how we want our government ran-by hotties

[@paulkim9828]

@@homerunhitters333 i agree. and she's smart too. smart enuff to leave trump. LOL snowflake

[@acekenny9339]

@@homerunhitters333 and?

[@CTKGr]

"I'll see you all at the reunion in 10 years, 7 with good behavior." Wake me somebody, I'm fucking dead!!! 😂😂

[@JamesLeeBuzz]

SeeingRed Isaid2 Yeah that was a brilliant zinger at the end there 😂😂😂 So good

[@ncphocused]

Best line in her skit!

[@jojopemb2218]

😂😂

[@ersatie9777]

"To Kellyann: …You showed me what I could turn into if I stuck around too long." Genius. When did they embalm Kellyann, by the way?

[@priscillajimenez27]

It's funny to see their reactions to each other's statements as if it's the first time they're hearing them lol

[@ButtThuck]

@I. Wynn Wynn They have rehearsals, but it's not uncommon to change things last minute on the cue cards

[@thomaswschaller]

"This internship... or job...or ..what is it?" So good!

[@thaiparkse]

thomas w schaller yup! So good because it was paying by all of Americans taxes dollars! Good way to waste tax $$ yup!

[@thomaswschaller]

Yep - Yet another outstanding way the US has managed to squander tax payers' dollars

[@thomaswschaller]

oh i do - i blame him every day for so many things I lose count

[@faithrada]

or 7 years ... for good behavior. Naaaa... it'll be 10.

[@ocvir5628]

"See you in ten years, seven with good behavior" I'm ded Lol

[@Montesama314]

"...my semester abroad at the White House."

[@TheTibetyak]

That one was priceless. But I think only 5 people in the audience got it.

[@cielleighton]

Yeah, Hope wants to pursue other opportunities, particularly the opportunity to not go to prison.

[@josephgarcia2979]

Last chuckle of the evening from me, thanks!

[@thatonenigeriansformula]

Smart woman

[@teresaf991]

@@thatonenigeriansformula not too smart. Former model worked for Ivanka met the family 5 years ago and gets a 2nd post after resigning from this one. She s the 1st person tested positive for Covid in the white house with direct contact with Trump. She handled Trumps Twitter account back in 2014. At 28 y.o. gets assigned as Director of Strategic Communications with no qualifications or experience in 2017, then resigned after testifying during the impeachment hearings that she often lied for Trump but gets rehired in 2018 as personal aide directly under Trump. Flying with him on all business trips. She flew in with him and others tests positive that day- and while some quarantined- trump went on as usually and we all know how that turned out with another 30 infected. Ok I take that back. Pretty smart to make a living getting notice by Trump and managing no jail time as the other trusted employers received doing his bidding. Knowing when to get out and back in again. And I didnt mention during her White house away time was appointed FOX news executive. Cant wait for her book to come out.

[@thatonenigeriansformula]

@@teresaf991 what i said was sarcasm so teresa you wasted time

[@angelorecco1123]

P ppl

[@sunshineday3668]

Complete support for Michael Che’s fun and hunting comments. Truth in humor.

[@phatmantv]

I just died when HOPE Hicks started reading her school notes🤣💀 BEST CLIP YET

[@whisperintheshadeify]

I honestly have no words...

[@homerunhitters333]

SORRY SNL! THE REAL HOPE HICKS IS HOTTER!! #TRUMPISWINNING!

[@homerunhitters333]

SORRY SNL! THE REAL HOPE HICKS IS HOTTER!! #TRUMPISWINNING!

[@chrispham8705]

Is it just me, or does Jared Kushner look like he has no soul?

[@LonelyHunter995]

@@homerunhitters333 is he still winning now? dumbass

[@rmtrainer7]

I can’t believe that she had that high profile job and she is only 29... and she is a former model with no political experience...

[@JC-ev2ns]

Rachel Trainor at this point nothing about this administration really surprises me

[@plqskov1504]

You’re surprised a gold digger sucked her way to the top? Were you in coma till now?

[@chokinonashes61]

Rachel Trainor None of them have any experience!

[@rmtrainer7]

Ruslan Shopov No, I mean, I’m 26 and a new art teacher and even that feels like an overwhelming responsibility for me. I just couldn’t imagine working in the White House at that age. Also - there is no need to make assumptions about sexual activity for money just because someone is attractive.

[@emperater]

Sounds about right I mean even Omorosa was there😁😁

[@joegee1000]

Love what Cecily Strong brings to all of her character portrayals, she's one of those notch-above actors that can make you believe the schtick.

[@AmericanPharaoh10]

I gotta say, I spit out my food when Che said "Unhand me, I'm an athlete."

[@lamontebenberry498]

After a brief meeting with the bloods at the rooftop of my building I 2 disagreed with myself 😂 man I love weekend update lol

[@washkabe9179]

I love Cecily Strong, she's so gorgeous and always hilarious

[@geraldsobel3470]

Really? And the whole time I thought it really WAS Hope Hicks!!

[@washkabe9179]

Lmao

[@everwhat013]

@jjay Are you referring to the president? that's not nice to call him a fatty!

[@13yearolddrummaboy]

Total bruh

[@felixhoenikker8122]

@Respect/Walk Deja la conversación

[@enx2083]

The priest joke was a risk paying off.

[@BuzryHaproMandalorianHunter]

enx Alucard approves.😉😏

[@janslehmann05]

Love it when they make jokes against the Catholic Church. People need to stop getting offended at them cos the Catholic Church just opens up opportunity for jokes when they behave like they do.

[@anneoneill280]

From Hope Hicks to Judge Janine to Cathy Anne. This girl has talent!

[@duckc742]

“Summer semester in the White House.” Too funny

[@WoodlandT]

I’ve been thinking for weeks the Cecily looks almost exactly like that Hope girl. So glad to see this!

[@WildIrish53]

Oh Colin, my grade school teachers were Irish nuns. They used yardsticks so they didn't have to walk as far.

[@tinawalton7703]

Michael Che, THANK YOU!

[@johnathonwooters3420]

@Modern Savage25 noice

[@Christopher-zi8rq]

'Its not a sport if the other team dosnt know there's a game on" -Bill Mahre

[@rickrose5377]

Satire -- like all art -- is in the details: I love how Hope Hicks'/Cecily's farewell statement is on lined notebook paper, and the perforations are frayed where it's been torn out of her high school binder. 'Cuz after all, the intelligence, wisdom, sophistication, and maturity of this semi-literate 'administration' is at about a tenth-grade level: all the adults have left the building.

[@rickrose5377]

Arlene Roth You're right, of course, Arlene. I was straining to be as generous as possible. An instinct, by the way, that's completely alien to this crew.

[@e32b61]

j jay Think of it this way, say you’re an overweight, alcoholic smoker. You wake up drunk every morning, you eat donuts and Doritos as full meals, you’ve chased away all of your loved ones, abandoned your kids, lost your job, and smoke like a chimney. This goes on for 40 years. The one day you have a massive heart attack, wake up in the hospital having undergone open heart surgery, and the doctors tell you you have stage 4 cancer. You’ll have to lose a lung, undergo chemo and you can’t talk. All of this is revealed to you in one day. Waking up in that hospital bed is like living under the Trump administration. Trump isn’t the doctor. He’s not the medicine. He’s the cancer and heart disease that’s resulted from all those years of bad living. Would you want to go back to those years of drinking? No. But things are definitely worse now. And the two are different stages of the same problem.

[@e32b61]

j jay I might add, imagine the alcoholic dying man came from a broken home with terrible family who abused and broke him down for years, leading him to alcohol and drugs as an escape. Now imagine those relatives are still around. The “adults” who created Trump aren’t going away.

[@e32b61]

j jay Yup, you got it. Trump is the way to break free. Just like terminal cancer is a way to break free from a miserable life.

[@rickrose5377]

j jay Thanks for your arrogant presumption in thinking you know my politics. HRC went to my high school -- we had the same history teacher (she's six years older than me). When I was an eighteen-year old college freshman, I had a job bussing tables at Yale Law School, when she and her contemptible husband were 3L-- I used to bus their table. Had I known at 18 what I know now, I would have spilled the soup in their laps. Personally, I wouldn't trust either of them as far as I could throw them. They and the their neo-liberal ilk are not the alternative. I went to Chicago public schools when they were good -- before we disinvested in them. I went to Yale and to Harvard. Other of my public school classmates went to Harvard, and to Stanford; to Harvard Law and to Yale Med. I've been a Trotskyist for thirty years before anyone reading this had ever HEARD of Bernie Sanders. Donald Trump is a narcissistic sociopath who's never read a book in his life, and is accomplished at nothing other than womanizing and cheating his creditors. He's a contemptible demagogue and a pathological liar, and I'm supposed to give him a chance at destroying the country and victimizing the dispossessed just because the neo-liberal wing of the Democratic party isn't very good either?!? Don't be fucking ridiculous.

[@marymcquaid7291]

Agree 100 percent with Michael Che. There's nothing sporting about killing animals.

[@KonniWynn]

@@markymarksthirdnipple8305 i guess

[@samuelsmith5773]

Aq true “sportsman hunter” goes after bear with a longbow, one arrow, and a knife. Then it’s sport.

[@debjoy12]

then how are we supposed to eat? my dad is a hunter and I grew up eating venison multiple days a week. killing for sport is messed up but hunting is a lot more humane than the meat farming industry (assuming you're a good shot). also rabbit and squirrel both taste like dark meat chicken and are DELICIOUS bbq style 🍗🍗

[@krunklord]

If you eat your kill its fine. Animals die, if you eat meat you’re contributing to that.

[@overlydramaticpanda]

Eating the kill makes the hunting acceptable but I'd still question the blanket statement that "there's nothing wrong with hunting". Trophy hunting, for example, (where the goal is simply to kill an animal for no purpose other than to say that you'v killed it and apparently preferably one that's on the endangered species list) is an objectively atrocious practice. And in any case, Che - and by extension the OP - were making the point that hunting simply should not be considered a sport. Which is a perfectly reasonable point to make.

[@psionyxv2210]

That priest bomb tho

[@JEMurl]

Its true though!

[@JEMurl]

Fucking child rapist' and boy lovers.

[@drstrange629]

Cecily. I am in love. So talented, and beautiful, and hilarious.

[@jamalhartley5863]

I love how they react off each other. Like when one says something they glance over like"omg bro stop your killing me"

[@amalkoury9149]

Could never get enough of these two legends

[@brysonpittman5908]

farah hadid Damm You Hot !

[@kingyah4611]

Let's pump those breaks! Eddie is a legend, chevy, Steve, Bill, Mike Myers, Will, and Dan are some others but these too are not there yet. Only Che could be considered as SNL's 1st black head writer. That's about it tho.

[@catalinasimmons6314]

farah hadid. It appears that there are a few things you Can't get Enough of. What sort of muslim are you?

[@amalkoury9149]

jonathan bethsaida lmao it’s really me in my profile picture but okay

[@amalkoury9149]

jonathan bethsaida I am lol so you’re right

[@twdjt6245]

Jost looks at Che after his bubble wrap comment like "oh, you're not supposed to do that?.😯.."

[@michalhrdy577]

Cecily nailed iT

[@katenicole3793]

"You wont need a gun if you just eat rice"~Michael Che. Truuuu😂

[@maxanluulnaxam1102]

Cecily killing it as always!

[@OldRaver]

So what, Trump picked his daughter’s BFF to be his ‘Communications Director’... Nothing, NOTHING surprises me about Trump anymore. I seriously think he selected his entire administration based on whether they’d make great contestants on The Apprentice!!

[@Business.Suit_McGee]

So three years on, did anything he did since then surprise you?

[@calob3927]

One of the funniest things about these two is watching them trying not to laugh at each other 😂😂

[@rhettecujo7125]

Cecily Strong killed it! 😂

[@bluto212]

Trump lost Hope Hicks and now hicks have lost hope

[@patrickderp1044]

trump voters paid the majority of the taxes but you wouldnt even understand that being a hick

[@sartresianez5332]

bluto212 👏👏👏

[@Etechization]

At least credit Bill Maher when stealing his bit.

[@jojostieff9392]

bluto212 I see what you did there

[@jefflittle8913]

"trump voters paid the majority of the taxes" Sorry, no. The median Trump voter paid almost no taxes. What you mean is Trump *Donors* paid a lot of taxes. Of course you have to ask what they were buying.

[@Gundam4]

Ah good game

[@robothunter1035]

"Mr. can I go to the bathroom?" "I don't know, can you? Do you feel lucky?" "It can wait." That's what I thought."

[@emanny1986]

It takes awesome talent to make a good skit out of Hope Hicks

[@408_Shark]

GREAT SKIT!!! LOVED every part!! Keep up the great work guys. 👌👍

[@olzarius]

Easily one of Colin's best

[@jennaramos1229]

Also funny how a day after giving her testimony Hope Hicks resigned

[@tamcon72]

Apparently, Trump was enraged with her.

[@johnfowler1627]

Now Define "Assault Weapon." Bet you can't. "Assault Rifle", however, is defined... and it's not easy to purchase one.

[@tomripsin730]

3:40 When Michael makes the "wrapping your penis in bubble wrap" remark, Colin looks at him like, "How did he know?"

[@stevenbramley9574]

Colin is soooooooooo cute...:)

[@tansywoods8947]

Cecily is a treasure💙

[@jojopemb2218]

Hope Hicks really does have AWESOME hair tho

[@caseylevins9900]

Anyone else catch Celily's little tip of the hat the Chris Farely? 'I think I'm going to like it here'.

[@edwardsalacuse1332]

Cecily Strong is one of the most talented actors ever. Kate McKinnon also is over the top talented!!

[@luc2o]

Cecily Strong is always SOOO much hotter than anyone she plays.

[@minervaloves]

I love Cecily’s look here 😍

[@jonesq63]

Cecily Strong is just terrific. The priest joke was brutal.

[@liveyalife2987]

This was good.👏

[@johne.parman8656]

Colin Jost is on point here.

[@emilycohen9148]

2:29 - 3:13 SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK MICHAEL CHE! Loved this part

[@kjamison5951]

Michael is so funny when he makes those little noises!

[@pm561]

Thank God for SNL. They were always appreciated, but now they help to keep us sane in America.

[@hirrafa]

2:44 although that's a joke, it should make the lavish shooters repent on how many animals they have killed

[@llewxamej65]

Nailed it!

[@SaintPhilis37]

Colin & Michael, thank's u 2 for the real weekend updates. LOL, "kenan, "I would disagree with myself too."

[@lagaman11]

Well, is America "Great Again" yet? I don't know if we can stand anymore of this greatness.

[@kamcorder3585]

Well said

[@JimFortune]

So, Trump talked big and then folded. Like always.

[@Littlesaintfortnite]

Jim Fortune folded like his hair

[@JimFortune]

j jay No, I mean folded like Trump folded on DACA, his tax returns, gun control, divesting his interests, and every other commitment he ever made.

[@JimFortune]

CardashianWithaB Who shut down the government? The first one was Reagan in 1981. Reagan again in 1984. 1986 Reagan again. 1990 Republicans led by Newt Gingrich. 1995-96 Clinton and Gingrich. 2013 Republicans led by Ted Cruz. 2018 45 Democratic Senators and 5 Republicans. But I'm pretty sure your goldfish memory only has room for the last one.

[@JimFortune]

CardashianWithaB Yeah, I thought so.

[@TwoMenAndALady2011]

Obama’s been out of office for a while now. Let’s leave him out of this, yea? He’s retired his role as the Republican scapegoat.

[@RalphTGP]

That was brilliant!

[@GrotrianSeiler]

That was painfully real. Accurate. CS, you are far beyond good.

[@chadlong1109]

I hope Michael Che has a career when he leaves SNL. He's the most consistently funny part on the show right now.

[@PlatinumState]

He's never gonna leave.

[@chadlong1109]

Oh shit, I'll have to borrow somebody's account and check that out.

[@chadlong1109]

I think he's in maybe 2 or 3 per season. Probably why he and Jost have got such a good record - SNL has like a .225 batting average as far as sketches that are actually funny.

[@ventingpaladin33]

He's only gonna leave when he takes Seth Meyers' job as host of Late Night. And believe me, he'll do a lot better than Seth.

[@butchbrittany1208]

His stand up is top notch!

[@fool4singing]

Is it just me, or does Jared Kushner look like he has no soul?

[@tamcon72]

Tom Riddle.

[@jamesyates1432]

You are right. He doesn't have a soul.

[@danielwells1734]

It's not just you.

[@anastasiamaria9756]

Great segment.

[@qa4057]

Excellent and funny as heck :D

[@syndicornpnw]

"You can't just make terrorizing animals a sport just because you like to do it... Shooting animals for fun is wrong." Thank you. Yes.

[@tommyhill199]

"My semester abroad at The White House."

[@josephnotoempire2949]

Hope Hicks really was the linchpin holding the Executive branch together.

[@randomcon123]

The reunion joke is priceless

[@jonomichi2262]

Love Che

[@mgod7664]

Heard Hope was a comfort girl for the administration.

[@mgod7664]

Brenda Euwer yeah. I would call her a workplace escort. 2 middle aged guys in the administration boinked her. So I'm sure there are more. And that's why she resigned.

[@jdez10]

yeah, she was passed around like a Russian email.

[@justafanintexas7913]

Handsome Jack - Eating Hope out would be like blowing the whole White House. That girl was the house punch.

[@jdez10]

+Pat McCann Trump screwed her like he is screwing the country.

[@genghiskhan9269]

MGod 7 She was like a door knob Everybody got a turn

[@InHumanoXY]

Excellent.

[@landry2611]

I really don't mean to upset anyone but I need to say, after years of watching SNL, Cecily is the most under-rated and definitely one of the top 3 cast members of all time.

[@jf7098]

✔ Che and Jost 🥰 and Cecily ❤ I miss SNL!

[@danishbiochem]

"Nuns with Guns"

[@kevlow9494]

Danish Sounds like a Grindhouse film

[@spacenerd9499]

as a public school teacher, LOL @ arming teachers and nuns!

[@vikramsarangan18]

Priests and nuns..... What a classic 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnedwardjones999]

So funny goes it gets very close to what appears to be true. Always thought Hope had daddy issues.

[@noneurbusiness2976]

i wouldn’t want to be a teacher, black, and with a gun when the police show up.

[@ianwilson2007]

Teaching Che to read should be job number one before next season.

[@maurice7241]

Wouldn’t be shocked if Donald’s nickname for her is grope

[@jamisonallen8710]

Cecily Strong and Hope Hicks hmm it's perfect... Strong Hicks that's the White house for sure!

[@CarlDillynson]

Cecily looks beautiful

[@TheCapedWanderer]

The way people on the Titanic decided they wanted to start seeing other boats.

[@JaredR1996]

The funniest segment SNL has in my opinion 😂😂😂

[@donnabanning3747]

Cecily Strong is totally hot!😍

[@luc2o]

She is always so much hotter than the person she plays.

[@beaujangus3619]

nah

[@greenspan11111]

This is one of the rare occasions that the actual person Cecily try to impersonate is more beautiful in every way, and Cecily is getting and looking really old and it is happening fast also!..

[@seededsoul]

I was gonna say that, too, lol

[@rickrose5377]

Donna Banning Congratulations! You ARE Donald Trump. The sole qualification for working at the highest level of the government is how 'hot' you are. Meet Ivanka: super-ambassador to the world!

[@vettech3086]

ROFL PRICELESS !!!

[@lonewolf_bbmq]

She gave so many hicks hope 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@KokomoGreenberg]

Hey it's the Meadow Brooke Mall in Pittsburg Kansas LMFAO

[@KG-et7lq]

Che smoked something before the show

[@m0rfans]

Yeah well so did I. :-)

[@priscillajimenez27]

K G or just tired and getting back into the swing of things

[@jaredmitchener9175]

He usually doesn’t choke but he did this time

[@steelberg23]

Probably weed

[@gmun2248]

Looked more like the autocue/ cue cards were messed up somehow - strange start to a sentence that didn't link well to the next part, then he sort of guessed it, then said it properly as if someone fixed the cue card . And then he tries not to laugh. Live TV - why it terrifies some people!

[@creative-anon-ca______4560]

MAWA make America work again.

[@ariadumler410]

one thing deer hunting is important for keeping deer populations in check since loss of territory for wolves has removed the main natural predator for deer

[@PlumagedBow]

LIVE FROM NY ITS SATURDAY NIGHT LIVEEEEE

[@Niicole4177]

For like a second I thought that was hope

[@faithrada]

This country is being run by a fashion model, a Reality Show host, and a failed real estate zombie? How did this happen??? I SWEAR .. I have NEVER done drugs in my life!!!