Thanks to the 2023 calendar year, April Fool’s Day happened to fall on a Saturday, giving the cast of “Saturday Night Live” ample opportunity to be extra silly.
During the “Weekend Update” segment with Colin Jost and Michael Che, things went awry when Jost’s jokes were not well received by the audience.
Joking about the indictment of former President Trump, Jost received minimal laughs from the live audience. When Che took a crack at the subject, all his jokes hit, with the studio erupting in laughter.
Trying again, Jost said, “At this point, it feels like even pro-Trump people have moved on. I mean I went down to the courthouse today, and I was the only protestor there,” alongside a Photoshopped picture of him holding a “LET OUR BOY GO!” sign.
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Colin Jost inserted himself into the Donald Trump indictment jokes to get a laugh, but to no avail. (NBC)
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