‘SNL': ‘Weekend Update’ Says ‘Shithole’ Despite NBC Censors Asking Not To
Colin Jost defied the NBC censors on “Weekend Update” in the first “SNL” episode after the show’s holiday break, using Donald Trump’s word “shithole” on air.
“The book ‘Fire and Fury,’ a salacious expose of the Trump White House, was released last week,” Jost said to start the segment. “And then this week, the sequel wrote itself.”
The first story of Jost and Michael Che’s “Weekend Update” segment kicked off by discussing Trump’s comments this week, in which he reportedly referred to Haiti and African countries as “shithole countries.”
Jost’s graphic for the story censored Trump’s phrase as “s—hole.