{"id":1915613,"date":"2026-05-03T15:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1915613"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:40:26","slug":"snl-weekend-update-covers-spirit-airlines-shutdown-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1915613","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SNL&#8217; Weekend Update covers Spirit Airlines shutdown and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/videos\/05u6p3OKL5NnbU1PqI6Nydc\/hero-image.fill.size_1200x675.v1777822823.png&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article data-autopogo class=\"mt-8 font-serif editor-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/snl\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\"><em>Saturday Night Live&#8217;s<\/em><\/a> Weekend Update has always been a reliable source of joy \u2014 or at the very least, a place to laugh \u2014 in what continues to be a genuinely strange moment in history. The jokes are great, but they&#8217;re also, increasingly, hitting a little too close to home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex mx-auto mt-8 w-full max-w-3xl font-sans text-lg leading-normal md:text-xl md:leading-7\"><span class=\"font-bold text-primary-400\">SEE ALSO:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/olivia-rodrigo-my-ex-snl-sketch\" class=\"flex items-center text-secondary-300\"><span class=\"ml-1\">Olivia Rodrigo tries to make her ex jealous in this &#8216;SNL&#8217; sketch<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost do their level best to navigate the week&#8217;s headlines, tackling the abrupt collapse of Spirit Airlines and the continued, inexhaustible chaos emanating from the Trump administration. The latter is fertile ground at this point, and the pair works through them with ease. <\/p>\n<p>Personally, the best bit from this involves King Charles&#8217; recent meeting with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and the conspicuous absence of any attempt by the British Crown to walk away with yet another piece of Indian cultural heritage.<\/p>\n<section class=\"mx-auto max-w-7xl\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-wrap mt-8 w-full font-sans subtitle-2 editor-content\">\n<p><span class=\"mr-1.5 font-sans font-bold\">Topics<\/span><a class=\"underline-link hover:no-underline text-secondary-300 \" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/snl\" aria-label=\"Navigate to the SNL tag\" data-ga-click data-ga-label=\"$text\">SNL<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/snl-weekend-update-shutdown-coverage&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/videos\/05u6p3OKL5NnbU1PqI6Nydc\/hero-image.fill.size_1200x675.v1777822823.png&#8221;] Saturday Night Live&#8217;s Weekend Update has always been a reliable source of joy \u2014 or at the very least, a place to laugh \u2014 in what continues to be a genuinely strange moment in history. The jokes are great, but they&#8217;re also, increasingly, hitting a little too close to home. SEE ALSO:Olivia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,75],"class_list":["post-1915613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-mashable-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1915613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}