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Rich Calder, Daniel Cody · 2026-05-16 · via New York Post

Live from New York! It’s time to bash Republicans on Saturday Night!

A whopping 91% of jokes delivered on “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update segment this season targeted conservatives, while 82% of characters during the show’s cold opens mocked President Donald Trump or fellow Republicans, according to a new analysis by Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.

The media watchdog examined SNL’s first 19 shows this season through May 9 and found a one-way political firing squad.

A whopping 91% of jokes delivered on “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update segment this season targeted conservatives, while 82% of characters during the show's cold opens mocked President Donald Trump or fellow Republicans, according to a new analysis by Media Research Center's NewsBusters.

Colin Jost and Michael Che host “Weekend Update” during an episode of “SNL” on May 2, 2026. Lloyd Bishop/NBC

Of the 226 political jokes delivered by Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che, 205 targeted conservatives, only 18 slammed Dems and other liberals, and three were non-partisan.

During cold opens, actors playing Republicans and conservatives appeared 49 times, lefty characters only 10 times, and one nonpartisan character was featured.

The analysis — exclusively provided to The Post — did not include the finale of SNL’s 51st season, which airs tonight.

Dumping on Trump — who hosted the show twice before being elected president — was the primary focus this year for NBC’s long-running, live-sketch comedy. And ratings are up thanks to the Trump bump.

The president accounted for 101 – or nearly half – of Weekend Update jokes, NewsBusters found.

“President Trump dismissed weapons fire between the US and Iran as a ‘love tap,'” Che joked during the May 9 segment. “He also called gas prices gentle sodomy.”

A woman speaking at a White House press conference on Saturday Night Live.

During cold opens, actors playing Republicans and conservatives appeared 49 times, lefty characters only 10 times, and one nonpartisan character was featured. NBC / SNL

And heading into the finale, Trump’s character — typically played by James Austin Johnson — had already made a dozen appearances this season during cold opens.

During its April 4 broadcast, SNL notoriously mused about the possibility of Trump being assassinated.

Che sickly crowbarred the “joke” into a bit about the president attending a performance at the recently renamed Trump Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

“President Trump attended the opening night of ‘Chicago’ at the Kennedy Center, and I think that’s cool that the president is going to the theater. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?” said Che, referring to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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Che then flashed a grin as the audience responded with an over-the-top guffaw.

“‘Saturday Night Live’ hasn’t been a good television show since President Trump hosted it” in 2015, White House spokesman Davis Ingle fired back two days later.

Trump faced two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign and survived another attempt on April 25 – three weeks after Che’s bit – during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s character finished second in cold-open appearances with nine, followed by ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s characters, with four each.

James Austin Johnson plays Donald Trump during an April 11, 2026, "SNL" skit.

James Austin Johnson plays Donald Trump during an April 11, 2026, “SNL” skit. Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty Images

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was second behind Trump as the target of Weekend Update jokes, receiving 14.

He was followed by Noem (12), conservative pundit Tucker Carlson (11) and Long Island’s lying ex-Rep. George Santos (10).

The show again took heavy shots at Trump and other administration officials in its season finale Saturday — as it showed Johnson’s  Trump character facing off with the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein, played by Will Ferrell. 

James Austin Johnson plays Donald Trump alongside Will Ferrell's "Ghost of Jeffrey Epstein" during the cold open of the show on May 16, 2026.

James Austin Johnson plays Donald Trump alongside Will Ferrell’s “Ghost of Jeffrey Epstein” during the cold open of the show on May 16, 2026. SNL/X

The skit took shots at the president for his acquaintance with the late notorious sex offender — including a quip in which Trump says his approval was in the 30s, and Ferrell’s Epstein said “Call me when you hit 17.” 

The show went on to hit its usual tropes, portraying FBI Director Kash Patel drinking from an alcohol bong as he partied with an over-the-top Hegseth, played by Colin Jost.

The show even took a shot at long-departed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and dredged up months-old jokes about her husband’s online provocations. 

In comparison, socialist NYC Mayor Mamdani — whose off-the-wall socialist schemes could provide years of comic material — has so far been targeted just once by Weekend Update.

And his character has only been featured in one cold-open segment: when comedian Ramy Youssef played Mamdani in a November sketch about a NYC mayoral debate.

“I know some of you out there are scared about the idea of a young Muslim socialist mayor, so allow me to put you at ease by smiling after every answer in a way that physically hurts my face,” said Youssef, who drew laughs by mocking Hizzoner’s signature grin.

Ramy Youssef played frontrunner Zohran Mamdani during the staged NY1 mayoral debate.

Ramy Youssef played frontrunner Zohran Mamdani during the staged NY1 mayoral debate.

Mamdani posted clips and video of himself laughing with Youssef about the uncanny resemblance on a FaceTime call while the comic was still in costume.

“Michael Jordan famously said, ‘Republicans buy sneakers, too.’ Entertainment companies once understood that alienating half the country was probably not a great business model,” said David Bozell, president of the Media Research Center.

“Nobody is asking SNL to become conservative, but when every political punchline is nothing more than Trump Derangement Syndrome all the time, SNL risks turning itself into a caricature of its own political obsessions.”

The group’s findings showing late night television is more lefty than ever shouldn’t be a surprise.

A whopping 94% of the jokes delivered by late-night hosts during the first week of Operation Eric Fury slammed the United States and its allies instead of Iran and other adversaries, according to data NewsBusters exclusively shared with The Post in March.

And a staggering 92% of jokes made by Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and the Daily Show universe targeted the right in 2025, and liberal guests outnumbered conservative ones almost 100 to 1, according to data the group shared with The Post in December.