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Colin Jost and Michael Che tackled the week's biggest news, like Marco Rubio meeting with Pope Leo XIV and Donald Trump dismissing the exchange of fire in Iran as a 'love tap' on the US Saturday Night Live last night.
The Weekend Update segment also covered the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak and Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide note.
Here's the second part of the section:
And two kamikaze dolphins – aka Mikey Day, Marcello Hernández – popped by to talk about their rumoured involvement in the Iran War.
Weekend Update – featuring kamikaze dolphins
From the US SNL
From SNL UK
Weekend Update on the rise of Reform and collapse of Labour
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