To close out Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, Colin Jost introduced the night's final guest: Punch the monkey 's mom. Not literally, of course. It was Sarah Sherman, in a bikini-fitted monkey costume, who portrayed the absentee mama as a trailer-trash harlot.

After a two-week hiatus, “Saturday Night Live” returned with a new episode Dec. 6, 2025, with host Melissa McCarthy and musical guest Dijon, marking McCarthy’s sixth time hosting, her first since 2017, and Dijon’s “SNL” debut.

Allegedly, during rehearsals for the January 31 episode of SNL, there was a Weekend Update joke about Nicki Minaj and her affiliation with MAGA. According to insiders who spoke to TMZ, when that joke, which did not mention Cardi B, was made, she freaked out.

It took Kevin Nealon over 30 years to find out why he lost his job at the “Weekend Update” desk on “Saturday Night Live.” “I’m just finishing reading that book called ‘Lorne.’ It’s about Lorne Michaels. And I’m learning what happened ...

Saturday Night Live staffers were “scared,” according to TMZ, after musical guest Cardi B had a meltdown over a “Weekend Update” joke about rapper foe Nicki Minaj. Minaj, the Trinidadian rapper who