So, the writers’ room of “Saturday Night Live” can be forgiven for airing three sketches that touched on Jeffrey Epstein‘s newly released emails. The show hopped right into the controversy with a cold open of a White House briefing on the Epstein files.

On "Saturday Night Live"s Weekend Update, Colin Jost and Michael Che tackled the government shutdown, the Epstein emails, and more.

Saturday Night Live mocked the Trump administration ’s ongoing attempts to downplay the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in a cold open sketch featuring the president denying he ever really knew Epstein just before offering to sell the Epstein files for $800 as a “stocking stuffer.”

Congressional lawmakers released thousands of pages of emails relating to the former financier earlier this week

“Each file will be on sale for the low, low price of $800,” Johnson’s Trump revealed, holding up a gold-framed printed out screenshot of one of the Epstein emails. “This is a beautiful, one-of-a-kind, printed-out screenshot in very low-res of one of the many files mentioning President Trump. It makes a great stocking stuffer.”

Will Forte ’s MacGruber returned to Saturday Night Live in a sketch that riffed on the Trump administration’s attempts to keep the Epstein files unsealed.

The MacGruber shorts were only the tip of the iceberg of this very Epstein-heavy SNL installment. The cold open saw Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) react to the release of thousands of Epstein emails this week, and Weekend Update continued to mock Trump over his Epstein connections.

US President Donald Trump has lashed out at a reporter after they asked him about Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie's comments on the Epstein investigation.