SNL mainstay Colin Jost has slammed the US’s aggression towards Iran by embodying Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in a parody sketch. Jost, who has portrayed the former television personality on

Colin Jost stunned his “Weekend Update” audience with a dark joke about convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “Officials in New Mexico are reopening investigations into the ranch that Jeffrey Epstein owned,

This isn’t a war, it’s a situationship.” SNL skewers tensions with Iran in a wild press briefing sketch starring Colin Jost as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

The March 7 episode, hosted by Ryan Gosling, opened with a cold open sketch where Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost) held a press conference regarding the U.S. military operation in Iran. Hegseth kicked things off by finishing a keg stand — "Relax, it was sprite" — and took questions from the press before introducing Noem.

Oscar nominee and Marty Supreme star Timothée Chalamet landed himself in hot water for his comments on opera and ballet. But Saturday Night Live took the furor directed at Chalamet to roast the actor with his own words.

After a year, singular, of hard work, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has been reassigned under the bus,' SNL's Colin Jost, playing Pete Hegseth, quipped

"Saturday Night Live" addressed high prices at the pump in its cold open, which also took a dig at Timothée Chalamet's ballet and opera controversy.