{"id":279231,"date":"2025-10-05T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279231\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:54:16","slug":"dont-do-anything-too-mean-or-fcc-will-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279231\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t &#8216;Do Anything Too Mean&#8217; or FCC Will Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tColin Jost portrayed  \u201csecretary of war\u201d Pete Hegseth during the first cold open of the 51st season, lamenting that \u201cOur military is gay as hell,\u201d but also mourning that, \u201cIt\u2019s also never been fatter!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis mirrored his real life meeting with the military\u2019s top generals this week, during which the meeting was strangely similar. Jost\u2019s version just got rid of any subtext, demanding that the military be filled with \u201chot, shredded, hairless men who are definitely not gay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThen James Austin Johnson\u2019s Trump interrupted to say he was \u201cJust here keeping my eye on \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SNL<\/a>\u2018 making sure they don\u2019t do anything too mean about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTrump then got meta, saying, \u201cSNL 51 off to a rough start: 17 new cast members and they got the \u2018Update\u2019 guy doing the open,\u201d a nod to the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/lists\/snl-season-51-cast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hirings and firings<\/a> from over the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe also got in a jab at Jost, saying, \u201cI thought he\u2019d be with his friends at the Riyadh Comedy Festival,\u201d with Jost saying he didn\u2019t get an offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTrump then reminded the audience that if the late night show got out of control, they\u2019d answer to my attack dog at the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/fcc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fcc\" data-tag=\"fcc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FCC<\/a>, Brandon Carr.\u201d Mikey Day then tiptoed into the scene as Carr via a music cue of Rockwell\u2019s \u201cSomebody\u2019s Watching Me,\u201d correcting Trump for the mispronunciation of his first name (it\u2019s actually Brendan). Unfortunately, Trump told him that was not one of his concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTrump ended the segment by saying, \u201cRemember: Daddy\u2019s watching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJohnson has portrayed Trump on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d since he was hired in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the sketch below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin Jost portrayed \u201csecretary of war\u201d Pete Hegseth during the first cold open of the 51st season, lamenting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36397,51,50,1933,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-279231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-fcc","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-snl","12":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115320957469076243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}