Seeing as today’s news is never not in need of incisive comedy, Colin Jost and Michael Che will end their summer breaks early to bring new half-hour Weekend Update episodes to NBC.
Per the network’s official confirmation, Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update will air four half-hour episodes beginning on Thursday, August 10 at 9:00 P.M. Jost and Che will of course anchor the desk (so much for a shakeup in Season 43), while additional SNL cast members are expected to drop by.
The rumors are true: SNL is taking Weekend Update out for a primetime spin once more.
It won’t be the first time Weekend Update has left SNL behind, as prior to Jost and Che’s bits at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, 2008 saw the launch of Seth Meyers’ Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday, which also ran episodes in 2009 and 2012.