On tonight’s episode of SNL, Weekend Update‘s anchors tackled topics ranging from criticisms of HBO’s Euphoria and Wheel of Fortune contestants, to Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and more.Colin Jost noted that fans of the hit HBO series Euphoria have been “harshly criticizing” creator Sam Levinson for “sexualizing” its teenage characters. “Plus, it’s just not accurate,” said Jost, as he pulled up an awkward yearbook photo from his younger years. “I mean, take it from me.
No one has sex in high school.”Jost later turned his attention to game show host Pat Sajak, who recently had to ask Wheel of Fortunate fans to “stop making fun” of a pair of contestants who were “unable to solve an easy puzzle.”“[Sajak] said, ‘Have a little heart,'” Jost said, as he pulled up a Photoshopped copy of a partially filled-in Wheel of Fortune board. “Or, as the contestants would guess, ‘Haze a nipple heave.'”Later in the segment, Jost and co-anchor Michael Che welcomed cast member Kate McKinnon to the Update desk to discuss Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, which recently passed a final state senate committee.“I’m sorry to barge in here,” said McKinnon. “I just heard about this law and I think it’s amazing.”Jost was surprised to hear this—presumably, first and foremost, because it’s common knowledge that McKinnon is gay herself.
Why, he wondered, would she support this bill?“When I was in middle school in the ’90s, I was kind of tortured by the constant use of the word gay.
Like, ‘Oh, that’s so gay. Ew, you’re gay.’ It made me feel horrible,” she explained, “and to hear that [Governor] Ron DeSantis has taken a stand and said, ‘No, you cannot say gay at school anymore,’ I’m just so jazzed.”“I feel like there’s been a misunderstanding,” deadpanned
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