‘SNL’ takes aim at Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, RFK Jr.

“Weekend Update” took quick shots at President-elect Donald Trump and those in his circle, from RFK Jr. to Elon Musk to Matt Gaetz.

But of course, “Saturday Night Live’s” fake news broadcast opened with a bit about the health executive killer story that has been fooling the nation since United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was grisly shot in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 4. “Weekend Update” anchor Colin Jost noted that the country has been engaged “in the delicate, sensitive debate about who’s going to play this guy in the Netflix miniseries.”

Jost also noted that while the accused shooter, Luigi Mangione, is suspected of harboring hostility toward corporate America, the facts of the case do not add up. “Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and got caught at a McDonald’s — maybe his biggest crime was hypocrisy,” Jost said.

Jost and his co-anchor Michael Che then took turns on Trump and his associates. Noting that Trump was named Time magazine’s Man of the Year, Jost noted that the recognition was appropriate because “no one has taken up so much of our time.”

Che was commenting on the news earlier this week that controversial former GOP congressman Matt Gaetz is moving to One America Network to host a political talk show. Gaetz resigned his seat under pressure from an ongoing ethics investigation. Last month, he was forced to withdraw from consideration as Trump’s attorney general after it became clear that Gaetz, who has been accused of sexual conduct with underage girls, did not have support in the Senate for confirmation despite Trump’s enthusiastic support.

Gaetz’s new OAN series will “cover everything from quinceañeras to prom shakes,” Che said.

Among other political barbs:

On RFK Jr.’s push to end polio vaccination mandates, Che said, “Because it’s not Christmas without some Tiny Tims.”

On Elon Musk stating that Trump and the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg agreed on the issue of abortion, he said, “I never knew Trump got her pregnant.”

Of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson fulfilling his dream of performing on Broadway with his one-night stand in the musical “& Juliet,” Che said it happened “while (Supreme Court Justice) Clarence Thomas blew everyone off the stage in ‘ Kinky boots.’ ”

The “Weekend Update” segment also featured long segments with actors Andrew Dismukes and Jane Wickline. Dismukes was riffing on the court decision in the UK that gained attention this week with the decision that calling a man bald is tantamount to harassment. Wickline delivered one of her signature songs riffing on Sabrina Carpenter and Wickline’s efforts to fuel internet rumors about her sexuality to boost her career.

“A lot of people on the internet like to start juicy rumors about whether pop stars are gay. When is even one person going to do that to me,” Wickline sang.