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There was no uncertainty as to whether \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d would offer its own satirical take on the news<\/a> that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had disclosed attack plans for a U.S. strike on Houthi militia fighters in Yemen during a text chat that mistakenly included<\/a> the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg<\/a>. It was only a question of how \u201cS.N.L.\u201d would do it.<\/p>\n This weekend\u2019s opening sketch featured the cast members Ego Nwodim and Sarah Sherman, as well as the guest host, Mikey Madison, as teenage girls whose group chat was interrupted by an unexpected message, read aloud by Andrew Dismukes: \u201cFYI \u2014 Green light on Yemen raid!\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n Dismukes, as Hegseth, continued to recite the texts he was sending (\u201cTomahawks airborne 15 minutes ago\u201d) along with the emojis he was using for punctuation (\u201cFlag emoji, fire emoji, eggplant\u201d).<\/p>\n \u201cDo we know you, bro?\u201d Madison asked. \u201cThis is Jennabelle.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh, nice,\u201d Dismukes replied. \u201cJennabelle from Defense, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Warned by Nwodim that he was in the wrong group text, Dismukes answered, \u201cLOLOLOL could you imagine if that actually happened? Homer disappear into bush GIF.\u201d He added that he was \u201csending a PDF with updated locations of all our nuclear submarines.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n But instead of dropping out of the chat, Dismukes added Bowen Yang, joining from Greenland, in his recurring role as Vice President JD Vance.<\/p>\n \u201cNice job on the strike, fam,\u201d Yang said. \u201cFemale skier emoji.\u201d<\/p>\n Dismukes asked him, \u201cHow\u2019s Greenland, by the way? Bet you\u2019re killing it.\u201d<\/p>\n Yang answered, \u201cNo, I\u2019m not. Nobody knows why I\u2019m here. Especially me. But praise Trump, our work here is mysterious and important.\u201d He added that \u201cEgypt owes us big time for this Yemen shiz\u201d and that \u201cPOTUS was saying we should make them give us the pyramids.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n When Madison wondered aloud how the pyramids would be brought to America, Yang replied, \u201cSame way they built them. Either aliens or slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n Dismukes said he would celebrate the successful strike with a Jack and Coke (\u201cjust the one,\u201d though) despite his promise to stop drinking if he was confirmed, and Yang chimed in. \u201cLike they say in A.A., just the one is OK.\u201d<\/p>\n Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez was a latecomer to the chat as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who reported that he was sharing \u201cthe real J.F.K. files \u2014 not those fake ones we released.\u201d<\/p>\n Informed that he had circulated this material to high schoolers, Yang said that it could have been worse: \u201cWe could have added the editor of The Atlantic again<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n That prompted an appearance from Mikey Day, who was playing Goldberg. \u201cYou did,\u201d he said. \u201cI am also here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Over at the Weekend Update desk, the anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che continued to riff on Signalgate, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s visit to a massive prison in El Salvador and the F.B.I. director Kash Patel\u2019s efforts to investigate attacks targeting Tesla dealerships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A more fortunate beneficiary of the viral lottery that is social media this week was Ashton Hall, an entrepreneur and fitness coach who gained attention<\/a> for a series of posts detailing his morning routine, which starts just before 4 a.m. and involves him occasionally dunking his face in Saratoga water and ice baths (and smearing it with the peel of a banana he\u2019s just eaten).<\/p>\n That was all the inspiration that Devon Walker needed to create his own parody-slash-tribute, in which he acted out his own version of Hall\u2019s videos (including one ride in an ambulance after handling a broken Saratoga bottle) and taunted Che for his supposed lack of ambition. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen you do anything like that,\u201d Che remarked at one point. Walker replied, \u201cChe, you don\u2019t be coming to work. For those of y\u2019all at home, this is the first time I\u2019ve seen this man all week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The arrest in December of Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with killing the UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, prompted comparisons from \u201cS.N.L.\u201d viewers who pointed out a broad resemblance between Mangione and Emil Wakim, a featured cast member.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWeekend Update jokes of the week<\/h2>\n
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