The late night comedy shows’ desire to trash the Supreme Court for its recent ruling that paved the way for the elimination of mandated majority-minority districts continued on NBC’s Saturday Night Live when Weekend Update co-anchor Michael Che compared the decision to the days of the Civil Rights Movement when protestors were attacked with firehoses.
Che quipped that “Legal experts are saying that this week's Supreme Court ruling has taken a wrecking ball to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but if you ask black people, it felt more like a firehose.”
SNL's Michael Che claims "Legal experts are saying that this week's Supreme Court ruling has taken a wrecking ball to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. If you ask black people, it felt more like a firehose." This was also sandwiched between more Trump-Epstein and Trump and Melania… pic.twitter.com/oc7D1DaYEw
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After the audience responded with more oohs than laughter, Che was quite proud of himself and pretended to take notes while adding, “Too real.”
Che not only never tried to explain how the ruling is like turning a firehose on a protestor, he never explained the ruling at all. He delivered a cheap one-liner about some vague event, and the audience is supposed to assume the country has snapped back to the worst days of Jim Crow.
In other Weekend Update developments, Che’s retort was sandwiched between two of late night comedy’s favorite bits. The first featured co-anchor Colin Jost talking about President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, “King Charles also presented President Trump with the original bell from a British submarine and said, ‘Should you ever need to get ahold of us, just give us a ring.’ Or Trump could just call the guy saved in his phone as ‘Andrew (Island).’"
On the other side of the Supreme Court bashing, Che continued the tradition of insisting that the First Couple does not actually like each other, “President Trump met with the Artemis II astronauts in the Oval Office and told them, ‘I like space,’ which is actually a direct quote from Melania's wedding vows.”
At least Weekend Update didn’t joke about the First Lady killing herself to get away from her husband, which is a slight improvement on what they said about the Second Lady the last time they were on the air.
Here is a transcript for the May 2 show:
NBC Saturday Night Live
5/3/2026
12:24 AM ET
COLIN JOST: King Charles also presented President Trump with the original bell from a British submarine and said, "Should you ever need to get ahold of us, just give us a ring." Or Trump could just call the guy saved in his phone as "Andrew (Island)."
MICHAEL CHE: Legal experts are saying that this week's Supreme Court ruling has taken a wrecking ball to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but if you ask black people, it felt more like a firehose. Too real.
President Trump met with the Artemis II astronauts in the Oval Office and told them, “I like space,” which is actually a direct quote from Melania's wedding vows.
