On a recent episode of Saturday Night Live, the cast member Sarah Sherman dropped by the 'Weekend Update' desk in character as the accountant Dawn Altman, the latest in her repertoire of high-strung weirdos. Altman was theoretically there to give one of the co-anchors, Colin Jost, some bad news about his tax returns. Instead, she proceeded to accuse him of using cocaine, allowing his personal plane to be used for ICE deportations, employing the financial services of Jeffrey Epstein, and, finally, running some sort of sex-slavery ring right behind the 'Update' set. All the while, Jost endured this barrage by cycling through a number of pained, embarrassed responses'sighing, shaking his head, muttering 'Okay, okay,' and eventually putting his head in his hands. When Jost first took the job as a 'Weekend Update' co-host in 2014, he came off like a cocky prep-school kid doomed to discover that the rest of the world does not share the high opinion he has of himself. Some armchair critics...
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