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‘SNL’ Weekend Update: Newcomer Jane Wickline Satirizes Gen Z’s Attitude Toward Going Out Via Song


Saturday Night Live newcomer Jane Wickline stole Colin Jost's thunder during this week's 'Weekend Update.'

“Host couple goes upstairs, they’re getting freaky at the function,” the featured cast member croons, also detailing how the overhead light has come on and the DJ has packed up their belongings. The song continues as Wickline clearly overstays her welcome through 6 a.m., the party carrying over to the next morning as a second group of “guests” — the mailman (“that must be the stripper”) and a dog-walker — comes in. Elsewhere in the segment, Jost and co-host Michael Che lobbed election-themed jokes, with the former saying, “In only 30 days, this whole nightmare will be nowhere close to over.” Meanwhile, Che joked about Donald Trump’s refusal to make public his medical records: “I bet I know what he’s hiding, but I’m not allowed to da-mentia-it,” he said.

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