SNL Weekend Update Roasts Summer Movies, Paramount+ — SkimNews
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- Jeremy Culhane returned as Tucker Carlson on SNL's Weekend Update, anchoring a segment that roasted the summer's biggest blockbusters
- Kids' movies including PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, Toy Story 5, and Minions and Monsters took early hits, with Carlson joking, 'Jesus didn't live at the same time as the dinosaurs but PAW Patrol did?'
- Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey was mocked, with Carlson saying, 'it's so nice to see Greek people do something other than make women feel uncomfortable'
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day starring Tom Holland was jabbed with the line 'Spider-they, Spider-them, uses whatever bathroom it feels like'
- Obsession, directed by Curry Barker, was targeted with the joke that 'the left's idea of a horror movie is that a woman is forced to love a man'
- Michael Che also took aim at David Ellison's Paramount+ and Taylor Sheridan's slate — Yellowstone, 1883, Dutton Ranch, and Tulsa King — asking, 'if that's Trump TV, what the hell is Paramount+?'
Why it matters: SNL weaponized a Tucker Carlson impression to deliver culture-war punchlines about the summer's biggest releases, tying Paramount's Taylor Sheridan-led lineup directly to Trump-era media, while also landing commercial barbs at the streaming service's identity.
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