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Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment mocked controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The Georgia congresswoman was stripped of her committee assignments this week following a backlash over social media posts from before she was elected to Congress in 2020.
They showed Greene had embraced conspiracy theories including the QAnon movement and endorsed the execution of Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Colin Jost kicked things off by noting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had called out Greene his week.
McConnell "criticized GOP representative and conspiracy theory huffer Marjorie Taylor Greene, saying that her 'loony lies and conspiracy theories' are a 'cancer' for the Republican Party," Jost said.
"But keep in mind, Greene believes cancer is a bioweapon created in a secret Jewish lab."
Michael Che then took over, saying: "Marjorie Taylor Greene, who looks like the mug shot of a former child star, has supported conspiracy theories about 9/11, school shootings, the Deep State and Jewish people. Ugh, I get it lady, you're my type.
"I'm kidding... anybody who believes those crazy conspiracies has to be as blind as Stevie Wonder is pretending to be."
Che said that Greene had apologized for her previous remarks and said the September 11, 2001 attacks "absolutely happened."
"To honor that day, Greene plans to hijack and crash the Republican Party," Che said.
Jost added that Greene had apologized for her embrace of conspiracy theories by saying "nobody's perfect."
"Yeah, I don't think perfect is the standard we were holding you to," he joked. "We would just settle for not violently insane."
He continued: "'Nobody's perfect' is a cutesy little phrase you say when you accidentally mess up a lunch order... doesn't really apply when you accuse kids of faking a mass shooting. It's the same reason 'Did I do that?' was Urkel's catchphrase and not O.J.'s."
Later in the segment, Jost turned his attention to "former social media influencer" Donald Trump, urging him to testify in his upcoming Senate impeachment trial.
"Former social media influencer Donald Trump will not testify at his impeachment trial next week and I think I speak for all of us when I say, come on, please?" Jost said.
He added: "Give us one last show, man! You know, stop feeling sorry for yourself, put in your extensions and burst into that trial like it's Maury Povich and you are not the father."
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