GraniteM@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 8 days agoI was trying to look up the punchline to an old SNL Weekend Update jokelemmy.worldimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up192arrow-down15
arrow-up187arrow-down1imageI was trying to look up the punchline to an old SNL Weekend Update jokelemmy.worldGraniteM@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareTrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·8 days agoStartpage mentions the jokes, and the assassination attempt, but SNL is not on the first page.
minus-squareGraniteM@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 days agoIt’s probably hopeless. If there’s an archived transcript of every Weekend Update ever, then it might be possible to find, but even that is assuming that I’m remembering SNL correctly, and it wasn’t A Conan O’Brien joke or something else like that.
minus-squareEch@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoDunno how comprehensive the site is, but this was the closest I could find: https://snltranscripts.jt.org/2022/weekend-update-guy-who-just-bought-a-boat-on-romantic-summer-getaways.phtml There’s also reference to a bit from 1978 about Napoleon with a B-52 bomber, but no transcript.
Startpage mentions the jokes, and the assassination attempt, but SNL is not on the first page.
It’s probably hopeless. If there’s an archived transcript of every Weekend Update ever, then it might be possible to find, but even that is assuming that I’m remembering SNL correctly, and it wasn’t A Conan O’Brien joke or something else like that.
Dunno how comprehensive the site is, but this was the closest I could find: https://snltranscripts.jt.org/2022/weekend-update-guy-who-just-bought-a-boat-on-romantic-summer-getaways.phtml
There’s also reference to a bit from 1978 about Napoleon with a B-52 bomber, but no transcript.