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Saturday Night Live covered the latest developments in the January 6 Committee hearings during its cold open, but it took specific aim at Donald Trump later in the episode during Weekend Update.

The sketch comedy show’s fake news program was always, of course, going to lead off with Trump’s response to the latest January 6 Committee hearing. Especially when it was a whopping 14 pages and Colin Jost could make a timely connection with some other recent news.

“After the January 6 Committee subpoenaed Trump, Trump responded with a 14-page letter. Fourteen pages. OK, Unabomber,” Jost said to laughs. “I don’t know if this is a coincidence but Trump wrote the letter the same day the FDA confirmed the nation is experiencing a shortage of Adderall. And I just know from experience in college anytime I wrote a 14-page paper in one night I’d also taken a disturbing amount of Adderall.”

Jost also took aim at a Georgia senate candidate that Trump has endorsed, Herschel Walker. A day after the former football star pulled out a fake cop badge and said “I am work with many police officers” during a debate with Raphael Warnock, Jost fired away at yet another bizarre thing from the Walker camp, saying it’s “another sign that Herschel Walker is does have brain problems,” Jost joked.

The segment featured lots of politics but also had some other current events highlighted as well. Chloe Fineman, for instance, stole the show during Saturday’s episode playing a concerned mother worried about Hocus Pocus 2 and was somehow possessed by the devil.

You can watch the rest of Weekend Update below.

In her second performance of the night, Megan Thee Stallion treated viewers to a double dose of fan favorites from her second album, Traumazine. Joined by guitarists and drummers on the Saturday Night Live stage, as well as a group of dancers, Megan opened with an electrifying performance of “NDA.”

She bounces to the beat, front and center of the stage, as her dancers respond, following suit. The beat quickly transitions into “Plan B,” the unapologetic, kiss-off anthem that launched the Traumazine era.

Although she appeared to be in good spirits during the show, this may be the last Megan performance we see for a while. Last night (October 14), after news broke that her Los Angeles home had been burglarized, she revealed that she is planning to take a break.

“I’m so tired, physically and emotionally,” she said.

She followed up, saying “Material things can be replaced but I’m glad everyone is safe.”

Despite the horrific incident, Megan continues to remind us that even in the face of adversity, nothing can stop her from doing what she’s meant to do.

Check out the full performance above.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Saturday Night Live‘s cold opens have been mostly political in recent years, and another hearing held by the January 6 Committee this week certainly merited coverage by the NBC sketch comedy show. Saturday’s Megan Thee Stallion-hosted episode began with a slew of cast members loosely recreating the latest political theater that included dramatic new footage of Nancy Pelosi organizing security (and talking a bit dirty) during the insurrection attempt at the US Capitol. Though the show couldn’t help but point out how dull it could be at times.

As Kenan Thompson’s chairman Bennie Thompson put it, “we assembled a team of monotone nerds to make a PowerPoint.”

The sketch culminates in the committee voting for Donald Trump to testify in front of the January 6 Committee, which everyone assured the audience at home would absolutely, for sure, happen. But it did also feature Liz Cheney, played by Heidi Garner, admitting she may be the only person to actually see consequences for speaking out against Trump as a Republican. Describing the “big Dick Cheney energy” required to do just that, Cheney cited a pretty obvious reason why she’s a bit different than other Republicans.

“You might be wondering what makes me so tough,” Gardner said. “And I ask you, ‘Was your dad? Is it Dick Cheney?’ You might wonder, ‘How do you have the guts to take on your entire party alone?’ And I’d say, ‘When you were little, who tucked you in at night? Was it Dick Cheney?’”

Adam Schiff was described as “too spooky” to be given any air time during the sketch, but a number of politicians that have appeared throughout the proceedings got a bit of shine during the open. Chloe Fineman recreated the now-famous Nancy Pelosi video from the hearings earlier in the week, while Sarah Sherman played Chuck Schumer calling Door Dash about their lunch.

“Is Mike Pence dead yet?” Trump asks at one point during a supposed recreation of Trump’s thoughts about the whole ordeal. So maybe it wasn’t completely true to the events of January 6. Then again, we might still get that testimony from the former president after all.

You can watch the full sketch above.

Megan The Stallion took the Saturday Night Live stage tonight for a performance of “Anxiety” from her second album, Traumazine.

During her performance, Megan is the front runner of a beauty pageant, where she is entered as Ms. Anxiety. She is joined by other contestants, including Ms. Overwhelmed, Ms. Insecure, Ms. Underpaid, and more.

“Anxiety” is one of the album’s more confessional tracks, as Megan raps, “Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, bad b*tches have bad days too,” on the song’s chorus, and details the emotional turmoil she’s felt after losing her mom.

In a recent interview with Apple Music 1, Megan revealed that the creative process for Traumazine allowed her to express herself in ways she couldn’t before.

“I don’t write songs about how I feel, I write songs about how I want to feel,” she said. “So I feel like on this album, it’s probably the first time I figured out how to talk about what I want to say… express myself a little bit more. So that’s just how I’ve been living life. And I feel like it’s been so easy for people to tell my story for me, speak on my behalf because I’m a nonchalant person, I feel like.”

Check out the full performance above.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Pulling in double duty as tonight’s host and musical guest, Megan Thee Stallion opened this week’s Saturday Night Live with a hilarious monologue.

During her monologue, Megan ran down her list of nicknames: “We’ve got Tina Snow, the Hot Girl Coach, the H-Town Hottie, and if you are one of my many, many haters, I’m probably ‘ugh, that b*tch.’”

Shortly afterward, she detailed her impressive resume, saying “I know everyone is used to seeing me twerk, doing hood rat stuff with my hood rat friends, and flat-out being one of the hottest MCs in the game right now, period. But there’s so much more to me than meets the eye. For example, I’m a really good actress. I don’t want to toot my own horn or nothing, but I think I do a pretty good British accent.”

“Alright, check this out, she said, before speaking in a British accent. “Put me in Bridgerton, b*tch.”

She also noted that she graduated last year from Texas Southern University with a degree in Health Administration, and recently launched a mental health resource website called Bad B*tches Have Bad Days Too.

“I can’t believe the domain wasn’t already taken,” she said. “It was supposed to be called ‘Hot Girl Bummer,’ but somebody stole it,” referring to Blackbear’s hit single, “Hot Girl Bummer.”

“You know who you are,” said Megan.

Check out the full monologue above.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

USC entered Saturday night’s trip to Utah as a 3.5-point underdog despite being ranked 7th in the country at 6-0, as the Utes playing at home figured to be their biggest test yet.

Early on, it looked like we might see another USC boatrace, as they jumped ahead 21-7, but Utah’s offense would start to settle in and make things a 28-21 game at the half. Utah quickly tied it up in the third quarter and from there the two teams traded blows, with USC taking the lead back each time the Utes tied it up, like in the fourth quarter when Cam Rising’s second rushing touchdown of the game was answered almost immediately by Caleb Williams’ fifth touchdown pass of the night.

At that point, Utah had two options to have a chance at winning, it felt. The first was to score quickly enough that USC would score too quickly and give them the last possession. The second was to grind out a drive and leave as little time on the clock as possible, and they achieved that in a bit more stressful of a fashion as they’d hoped, punching it in with Rising on the ground again with 48 seconds left.

Wisely, recognizing that they weren’t stopping USC’s offense and playing for OT was a bit foolish, the Utes lined up to go for two and, once again, it was Rising using his legs after USC covered up his receivers to push Utah ahead for the first time all night, 43-42.

From there, USC had a long kick return called back for holding and started at their 20, facing a sea of black shirts and a wall of noise, leading to an immediate false start.

Williams would then throw what appeared to be a game-sealing pick, but got a reprieve with a pass interference flag — with USC getting an even bigger break by a referee making an errant timeout signal on the field that gave them almost 10 extra seconds on the clock after review. However, Utah’s defense finally bowed up and wouldn’t give up a big play, eventually forcing Williams into a last second heave on the run that didn’t make it anywhere close to the end zone from 60-plus yards away to give Utah a non-upset upset win, moving them to 5-2 and back in the hunt for the Pac-12 South title.

For USC, their defensive woes finally resulted in a loss, as Williams’ monster night was in vain as he went for 381 yards and five touchdowns in defeat. On Utah’s side, Rising was equally sensational, throwing for 415 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for 60 yards and three more scores. Rising’s favorite target on the night was Dalton Kincaid, as the tight end showed out with 16 catches for 234 yards and a touchdown, as he terrorized the USC defense all night.

It was a fittingly chaotic end to a chaotic day in college football (and sports in general), as No. 7 USC joined No. 3 Alabama as Playoff contenders to suffer their first loss of the season on the road against a conference rival.

Saturday night in Cleveland was a battle of two very different styles of offensive baseball, as the Yankees scored five runs on five hits, three of them home runs as they took a 5-3 lead into the bottom of the ninth inning.

The Guardians, meanwhile, had gotten their three runs on 10 hits, playing small-ball against the powerful Yankees and, it appeared, that would not be enough. However, in the ninth inning the Guardians would not stop hitting singles, scoring three runs on five singles, the last of which came off the bat of Oscar Gonzalez, sending Progressive Field into full on pandemonium.

It’s an incredible hit from Gonzalez who was down to the team’s last strike when he went down below the zone on what was really a good pitch by Clarke Schmidt, a breaking ball that got below the zone and forced a swing. Gonzalez was able to get the barrel on it and fire it back up the middle, and with the runners moving on contact with two outs there was never a chance for a play at the plate.

Cleveland, and most importantly, Spongebob Kid, were fired up.

It is the third go-ahead hit from Gonzalez this postseason, as he’s become the Guardians most clutch hitter in late-game situations, moving them a game away from the ALCS. On the other side, it’s a dismal loss for the Yankees, with Aaron Boone coming under heavy fire from Yankees fans for how he handled his bullpen in the ninth inning, leaving Wandy Peralta in for his third inning of work to start, as he gave up the first two singles, leaving Schmidt to come in for a clean up spot, which he wasn’t able to close out.

The Seattle Mariners got to host a playoff game for the first time in 21 years on Saturday afternoon and the folks who were starved of postseason baseball for two decades were provided with two full games for the price of one.

Neither offense could do anything all game and the two sides went to extra innings tied 0-0. That continued for another eight innings, with the two pitching staffs combining for more than 100 outs without a single run being scored, a legitimately unbelievable feat that had never been achieved in playoff history — it was the fourth 18-inning game in playoff history overall, but the first to get there scoreless.

There weren’t a lot of “highlights” aside from some impressive pitching displays, but in the 16th, Mariners center fielder Julio Rodriguez helped keep the game stalemated at 0-0 with an unbelievable diving grab in the right center gap.

However, in the top of the 18th, Jeremy Pena launched one deep into left center that Rodriguez was not afforded a shot at, as it carried over the wall for a home run to, finally — and mercifully, for those watching — put a run on the board.

Seattle was unable to find their own miraculous run in the bottom of the 18th, bringing their incredible season to an end in about as painful a loss as you can have — especially for fans who sat there for 11 innings sobering up after they stopped serving alcohol in the seventh. Playing two full games worth of innings and losing 1-0 feels like an especially cruel way for a season to end, particularly for the pitching staff, and the Mariners will feel they let all three games in this series slip through their hands in various ways having blown two late leads in Houston prior to Saturday.

It appears Azealia Banks has been banned from Instagram.

Known for her outspoken nature and controversial takes on music matters and contemporary world issues, Banks’ Instagram page has apparently been cleared of its posts and removed from the platform.

In recent weeks, Banks had been using her Instagram page to sell her line of soaps, as well as share snippets of new music. She had also weighed in on music news, and accused Nicki Minaj of “sabotaging other black female rappers behind the scenes” in one of her lengthy Instagram stories.

Last week, Banks took to her Instagram stories to call out Kanye West for comments he made regarding Lizzo’s weight during an interview with Tucker Carlson.

“He can’t be trying to lollipop off the four-year-old discussion about Lizzo’s health and weight when he has an entire McDonald’s commercial,” Banks said.

In one of her last posts, before her account was removed, Banks said Minaj needed “serious help” following a Twitter row with Latto.

“The Barbs need to petition to get Nicki Minaj some rehab and mental health services through the Grammys music cars program,” she said. “…because this level of anger is not normal at all.”

A representative from Instagram did not immediately reply to our request for comment.

The game of the week in college football was in Knoxville, Tennessee, where two undefeated teams met in an annual rivalry (that hasn’t felt like one in quite some time) as Alabama made the trip north to face the Volunteers.

The Vols jumped out to an early 21-7 lead as they were simply unstoppable offensively, with Hendon Hooker orchestrating a lethal passing attack that was headlined by Jalin Hyatt, who caught six passes for 207 yards and five touchdowns, as the Tide struggled to cover him all night up the seams.

However, as one would expect from Alabama, they fought back to tie things up on a few occasions, with Bryce Young putting forth a ridiculous performance with 455 yards passing and two touchdowns, while Jahmyr Gibbs had 104 rushing yards and three touchdowns to help the Tide reel the Vols back in.

In a game dominated by the offenses, it was a defensive play that seemed like it might be the difference in the fourth quarter when a bad mesh from Hooker and his running back left the football on the turf for Dallas Turner, who gladly scooped it up for a touchdown to give Alabama their first touchdown lead of the day.

The Vols would strike back with another touchdown from Hooker to Hyatt, and the tension was palpable in Knoxville.

Alabama would march into field goal range, but the monkey’s paw of college kickers curled and the kick stayed wide right, leaving things tied at 49-49 with 21 seconds to play.

After quickly getting to midfield, the Vols were able to connect on one more deep pass to Bru McCoy to get them in range with two seconds to play to avoid overtime.

Vols kicker Chase McGrath was able to get just enough on the ball — that was maybe tipped at the line — to creep over the crossbar from 40 yards out to send Neyland Stadium into pandemonium.

It was a wild game that delivered on everything anyone could’ve hoped for — unless you are an Alabama fan — and any questions about how legit the Vols offense is were answered in a big way as Hooker made his Heisman case on the biggest stage in the sport so far this year.