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

Saturday Night Live didn't skip its chance to skewer President Donald Trump over the recently released Jeffrey Epstein emails. The show's latest cold open kicked off with a press briefing that saw Trump (played by James Austin Johnson) defending himself after the House Oversight Committee this week released emails from the convicted sex offender.

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

Saturday Night Live once again featured James Austin Johnson as President Donald Trump. This time, the show took a dig at the Jeffrey Epstein emails.

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.”

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.

A House petition to release Epstein case files reached 218 signatures as Rep. Lauren Boebert met White House officials. Newly released emails show Epstein repeatedly referenced Trump.