‘SNL’s Weekend Update Sees Jason Sudeikis Reprise Role As The Devil – Deadline

On tonight’s Halloween episode of Saturday Night time Dwell, Jason Sudeikis returned to Weekend Replace to reprise his position as The Satan, catching co-anchor Colin Jost up on the newest in his life.

Jost famous that it has been 4 or 5 years since The Satan final graced the desk at Studio 8H. “It’s as a result of I’ve been busy, child,” Sudeikis’ Satan stated. “The previous couple of years have been fairly good for outdated Beelzebub right here.”

The Satan famous that he’s had many “little facet tasks” to maintain him busy, together with “earthquakes,” “killer storms” and an “Instagram for youths” he’s been “attempting to get…off the bottom.”

Then, after all, there’s the local weather. “I don’t know when you’ve seen, however I’ve been making issues up right here really feel extra like the place I’m from,” stated The Satan. “I imply, have you ever ever been to Florida? That’s not that completely different from Hell…It’s folks of their a whole bunch, and the temperatures are additionally within the a whole bunch.”

The Satan advised Jost that Florida is the place he likes to “beta check” quite a lot of his new concepts, additionally noting he’s caught his fork of late into the world of sports activities. “I imply, you noticed that the Astros gained,” he stated. “They shouldn’t have!”

For The Satan, stopping by SNL represented a pleasant change of tempo. In spite of everything, again at house, Rush Limbaugh has been “speaking [his] horns off.”

At one level, he obtained a name, sharing that it was Prince Andrew—once more.

“The man is blowing up my telephone on a regular basis,” he complained. “All these pics of me, him and J Eps, they’ve been popping out. I look fairly good, although.”

Jost subsequently requested The Satan about different points of contemporary society he’s chargeable for, and he fortunately took credit score for each bitcoin and vaping. When requested if he’s behind QAnon, he promptly dismissed the suggestion. “Hey! No. These guys are loopy. A bunch of unhappy web psychos pondering a cabal of Devil-worshipping pedophiles exists,” he stated. “It’s like, excuse me. Don’t drag my good title into your sick web fantasies.”

The Satan then demanded that Jost take his query again. “Or I swear,” he threatened, “I’ll return on my deal to allow you to marry Scarlett [Johansson].”

Jost denied any deal of the type occurred, with The Satan insisting, “You child trapped her! I don’t know who screwed her extra, you or Disney.”

Elsewhere on tonight’s version of Weekend Replace, Jost and his co-anchor Michael Che mentioned every part from a scandal surrounding the lead singer of the band Smash Mouth, to a latest episode of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix sequence, Intercourse Love & Goop, to the sale of a Star Wars-themed home in Florida.

Tonight’s episode is the primary hosted by longtime SNL forged member Sudeikis, who was joined by musical visitor Brandi Carlile. Sudeikis’ phase as The Satan may be discovered beneath.