Saturday Night Live Fans Disappointed With Shortened Weekend Update Segment

By Adam Barnhardt - April 10, 2022 12:46 am EDT

Another week down and another episode of Saturday Night Live released, and fans aren't having it with the show's flagship sketch. Shortly before the show takes an extended spring break before returning to 30 Rock for a series of episodes in May, "Weekend Update" seemed to be cut a bit short — and fans aren't too thrilled.

With a standard Update segment, there are usually two separate guests to help cut the sketch up into further segments. This week, however, there was just one guest bit. Shortly after that, the segment was cut short as Saturday Night Live cut to commercial and carried on with its regular programming. Due to the abruptness, fans quickly took to Twitter to rail against Saturday's bit.

Keep scrolling to see what SNL fans are saying.

Effort

I'm old enough to remember when Weekend Update used to make an effort#SNL
— Meggy Mommy and Lucky Wifey🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@WifeySpice90) April 10, 2022

Weak

It was a pretty weak Weekend Update this week.
— Imma 🅿️otato 🥔 (@TVtater) April 10, 2022

#CancelChe

Michael Che is OUT again. #WeekendUpdate #SNL @nbcsnl pic.twitter.com/GSiHKJxXmv
— Jose Ramon Marquez (@joseramonmarmtz) April 10, 2022

Bed Time

And Weekend Update continued the ”this episode sucks” theme, it's bed time kids.
— Brian Langille (@Langille) April 10, 2022

WTH?!

@nbcsnl What the hell was that with Weekend Update? That is 5 minutes of my life I can't get back.
— Mike Jackson (@MikeJac54628330) April 10, 2022

Too Hard

Why does it seem like they're trying too hard to be funny instead of naturally being funny? It's like when they did SNL at home via them Zoom Skits....them episodes were bad. #SNL #WXIA #NBC #WeekendUpdate #SaturdayNightLive
— Paul Williams (@RockyTopFan8) April 10, 2022

*****

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