SNL’s Weekend Update Hits Hard: Jeremy Culhane Mocks Tucker Carlson at Met Gala!

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Following a successful debut of Jeremy Culhane’s dead-on impersonation of Tucker Carlson a month prior, Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update brought it back for another round — this time focusing on Carlson’s biting commentary on the Met Gala.

Culhane, slightly raising his pitch and sprinkling in absurd laughter, critiqued everyone from Dwayne Johnson for wearing a skirt (“Can you smell what the Rock is cooking? Because I sure can. It’s gender confusion.”) to Madonna and her headpiece resembling a “pirate ship” (“And I’m supposed to find this attractive?”).

“A spectacle of fashion and frivolity. Really? Yes, let’s all parade in our extravagant $100,000 costumes while the American empire falls apart,” he mocked.

He scoffed at Heidi Klum’s look, transformed into a Grecian marble statue, quipping: “The left has finally achieved their dream. They’ve covered the Statue of Liberty in a burka.” Regarding A$AP Rocky’s attire, he jested that the musician wore “my least favorite color” — Rocky was dressed in pink — “African American.”

Next, he joked, “Will the Chrysler Building be renamed the ‘Anti-Christ-ler’ building?”

“What are we even doing? What’s happening here?” he asked, breaking into peals of high-pitched laughter. Turning his focus to the Michael biopic and its star Jaafar Jackson, Culhane-as-Carlson bemoaned, “The film concludes in 1988, clearly sidestepping a crucial part of Michael Jackson’s story that must be acknowledged. The period when he was a white man. Sorry kids, Michael Jackson doesn’t get to live out a beautiful white life anymore. Huh? Who does that remind me of? Oh, right, all of us.”

He ended with a spoof ad for a bizarre product: “Want to eat bananas without appearing gay? Try round bananas.”

Additionally, the update desk revisited the successful pairing of Mikey Day and Marcello Hernández (from the same weekend as Culhane’s initial Carlson spoof), this time with the duo portraying two “kamikaze dolphins,” complete with sea-related puns.

“I had hit rock bottom, and my life had lost all purpose,” stated Hernández’s dolphin character about why he joined the military.

Day asserted that if they do well, they will be “rewarded with 72 sturgeons” in the afterlife.

An additional highlight was Hernández breaking character opposite Day, with Colin Jost discussing his “massive financial drain” of a ferry.