• Matt Damonreprised his role as Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the latest episode of NBC's "Saturday Night Live." 
• The actor, who was hosting the episode, appeared as Kavanaugh for an "It's A Wonderful Life" spoof imagining what the world would be like if Donald Trump, played by Alec Baldwin, wasn't president. 
• When Trump asked Kavanaugh how the Supreme Court was, Kavanaugh responded, "Me on the Supreme Court? With my temperament? Are you insane? Nah, nah. They went with that nerd, Merrick Garland. But on the plus side, when I tell people I like beer, they find it charming and not like I'm threatening violence." 
• He also presented Trump with a calendar where each day was a different beer. 
• Other stars made cameos during the cold open sketch, including Ben Stiller as former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and Robert De Niro as special counsel Robert Mueller. 
• Watch the sketch below.

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• The Navy SEAL-turned politician who Pete Davidson mocked on "Saturday Night Live" reached out to the comedian after he posted a disturbing note on Instagram on Saturday.
• "I talked to him personally," Congressman-elect Dan Crenshaw told KPRC2 Houston on Monday.
• Crenshaw appeared on "Saturday Night Live" in November to hear an apology from Davidson, who joked that he looked like a "hitman from a porno" in a previous segment.
• Crenshaw lost his eye while fighting in Afghanistan in 2012.
• Crenshaw is one of a long list of celebrities who rushed to support Davidson after his concerning message.

Congressman-elect Dan Crenshaw made a call to Pete Davidson after the comedian posted a disturbing note on Instagram on Saturday.

"I talked to him personally," the former Navy SEAL told KPRC2 Houston on Monday.

"We don't go back very far. We're not good friends," he said. "But I think he appreciated hearing from me."

Crenshaw, who is is the US Representative-elect for Texas' second congressional district, appeared on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in November to hear an apology from Davidson who joked that he looked like a "hitman from a porno" in a previous "SNL" segment.

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Crenshaw lost his eye to a bomb while he was fighting in Afghanistan in 2012, during his third combat tour.

The pair showed good humor in the apology segment, as Crenshaw clapped back at the comedian for his comments by playing the tune of Davidson's ex Ariana Grande's "Breathin" as his ringtone.

Davidson said at the time: "The man is a war hero and he deserves all of the respect in the world. And if any good came of this, maybe it was that for one day the left and the right finally came together to agree on something — that I'm a dick."

Crenshaw added in his KPRC2 Houston interview that he told Davidson how important he was in their phone call: "I told him everyone had a purpose in this world."

"Especially a guy like that: Sometimes he makes people laugh. Sometimes makes people mad. But he makes people laugh a lot. It was a good conversation," he said.

Crenshaw is one of a long list of celebrities who rushed to support Davidson after his concerning message. Jada Pinkett Smith, Nicki Minaj, and Machine Gun Kelly were among those who shared a message for Davidson.

Read more:Celebrities rushed to support Pete Davidson after his concerning Instagram post

Davidson wrote in the alarming Instagram post: "i really don't want to be on this earth anymore. i'm doing my best to stay here for you but i actually don't know how much longer i can last. all i've ever tried to do was help people. just remember i told you so."

Shortly after posting the message, he deleted his account. He was later accounted for by the NYPD and appeared briefly on "SNL."

Ariana Grande, who was previously engaged to Davidson, also wrote in a now-deleted tweet: "I'm downstairs and I'm not going anywhere if you need anyone or anything. I know u have everyone u need and that's not me, but i'm here too."

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• It was quite the year in politics, which means NBC's "Saturday Night Live" had a lot of material to work with. 
• The show, which has received a ratings bump during the Trump presidency, got political many times this year.
• Here are some of the best SNL political sketches of 2018: 

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SNL reimagines "It's a Wonderful Life" in a world were Trump never became president.

Democrats showed they were very confident about the midterm elections on "Midterm ad."

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"They say 'don't trust the polls,' but I'm choosing to," quips a shaky Kate McKinnon. 

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Remember the emergency alert test message we got from the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it was trying out the presidential alert system?

Here's an SNL ad for that. 

• Kate McKinnon appeared as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Weekend Update on "Saturday Night Live."
• Warren announced on December 31 that she would form an exploratory committee for the presidency and has already traveled to Iowa to kick off her pursuit of the Democratic nomination. 
• "I haven't been this excited since I found out my package from L.L. Bean had shipped," McKinnon, as Warren, said.
• Warren has been a frequent target of the political right for both her politics and her claimed Native American heritage — President Donald Trump has invoked the latter issue to smear Warren.
• McKinnon's Warren also fended off suggestions that voters won't like her.
• "I'm sorry I'm not young and pretty like Donald 'Jackass' Trump," she said. "Am I likable? Prob not. Neither is a prostate exam, but you need one or you'll die."

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• It looks like Seth Meyers didn't exactly finish strong on his final episode working on "Saturday Night Live" in 2014.
• In an interview on "Hot Ones" that aired Thursday, the "Late Night" host recalled how his last sketch bombed on air.
• Meyers explained that the sketch, which featured host Melissa McCarthy ordering hundreds of chicken wings for herself, played to "total silence" in front of a studio audience.
• When the sketch was over, he said "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels came over to him and sarcastically said, "What am I going to do without you?"
• Watch the full clip below:

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• "Saturday Night Live" cast members, portraying high-profile journalists, speculated on the intimate photos of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a new skit.
• The episode followed the publication of a blog post this week by Bezos alleging a blackmail attempt by the National Enquirer, the tabloid that published a story exposing Bezos' affair with TV personality Lauren Sanchez which claims to have intimate photos of Bezos.
• Portraying Chuck Todd, moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," actor Kyle Mooney asked his fellow cast members: "I know normally high-minded journalists wouldn't talk about something like this, but it does involve the richest man in America and the President of the United States. So, Jeff Bezos' penis. What do you think it's going to look like?"
• Cecily Strong, portraying Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, said: "When I hear billionaire’s penis, I immediately think small potatoes, you know. It's like they say, if it's small and looks funny, you better have the money, honey."
• Kenan Thompson, as Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, brought Amazon products into the discussion. "Is he working with something the size of Amazon Echo or is it more of a Dot?" he said.
• Leslie Jones, portraying former DNC chair Donna Brazile, appeared scandalized at the discussion and did not speculate on photos of Bezos, saying at one point, "What is happening right now?"
• The cast members also brainstormed potential headline ideas for the Bezos-National Enquirer story, including, "Your Amazon Package is On Its Way."
• Watch the full video below.

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• "Saturday Night Live" took aim at President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency over funds for his long-sought wall along the US-Mexico border.
• Alec Baldwin appeared as Trump delivering an announcement in the White House's Rose Garden about the "fake" national emergency that would secure funds "so I can has wall."
• Trump hit back against the show in an early morning tweet, saying its political sketches were "total Republican hit jobs."

"Saturday Night Live"took aim at President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency over funds for his long-sought wall along the US-Mexico border.

Alec Baldwin appeared as Trump, closely mirroring the president's comments delivered in the White House Rose Garden two days earlier, when he declared a national emergency to allocate nearly $8 billion total for construction of his long-sought border wall.

Using one of Trump's key talking points for promoting the wall, Baldwin delivered a near-echo of Trump's claim in the press conference that "walls work 100% of the time."

"We have a tremendous amount of drugs flowing into the country from the southern border, or the brown line as many people have asked me not to call it," Baldwin said. "That's why we need wall. Because wall works. Wall makes safe."

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle cast Trump's declaration as an unprecedented move around Congress to take control of military funding.

Baldwin asked the fake media scrum if they "can all see why I have to fake this national emergency."

"I have to because I want to. It’s really simple. We have a problem," Baldwin said, before adding he was "basically taking military money so I can has wall."

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Baldwin continued, referencing Trump's comments two days earlier where he said he expected legal challenges to the emergency, but was confident the Supreme Court would rule in his favor.

"I'm going to sign these papers for emergency," he continued. "And then I will immediately be sued and the ruling will not go in my favor and it will end up in the Supreme Court and I'll call my buddy [Brett] Kavanaugh and I'll say it's time to repay the Donny, and he will say, 'New phone, who dis?' Then the Mueller report will be released, crumbling my house of cards and I can just plead insanity."

Baldwin added, "and my personal hell of being president will finally be over."

The sketch might have hit a nerve as Trump hit back in an early morning tweet, writing that there was "Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC!"

Referencing the focus of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion of his 2016 campaign with Russia, Trump questioned how the comedy doesn't earn "retribution" for its sketches. 

"Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution?" Trump wrote. "Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!"

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• "Saturday Night Live" took aim at President Donald Trump's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which ran for more than two hours and had no apparent central focus. 
• Trump told the audience he was going "off script" for the speech, the "crazier" moments of which were highlighted in the "Weekend Update" segment. 
• Host Colin Jost pointed to the testimony Trump's former personal lawyer delivered to Congress last week that accused Trump of various federal and financial crimes, saying Trump was "handling [it]...really well."

President Donald Trump's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) ran for more than two hours and touched on a wide variety of his often-touted topics, from his victory in 2016 to his distrust of Democratic lawmakers. 

That evening, "Saturday Night Live's""Weekend Update" host Colin Jost showed clips of the "crazier" moments of the speech, beginning with Trump hugging a nearby American flag as he took the stage, of which Jost asked, "What the hell was that?" 

"After that patriotic #MeToo moment, it somehow got crazier from there," Jost said. 

The segment included clips of Trump pretending to ask if the wind is blowing (mocking renewable energy), mimicking former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Alabama accent, and a re-enactment of his joking plea to Russia for former Democratic presidential opponent Hillary Clinton's emails, which initially raised concerns after he delivered it at a 2016 rally. 

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"I'm going to regret this speech," Trump says in a clip included in the segment. 

"If you're curious, Trump's handling the Cohen testimony really well," Jost said, referencing Trump's former longtime personal lawyer who accused the president of various federal and financial crimes in congressional testimony days earlier.

The speech came after a week of other challenges for the president, including a passed resolution to overturn Trump's national emergency declaration and a failed summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Trump made brief mention of the importance of denuclearization with North Korea, but did not address the national emergency he declared to secure funding for a border wall or Cohen in Saturday's speech, choosing instead to revel among his supporters.

The speech marks one of the longest of Trump's presidency, and seemed to fire up the conservative crowd, who at times descended into chants of "USA" and "Build that wall." 

After touting his success in 2016 as something that has "never happened before," Trump told his supporters he was expecting an "even bigger victory" in the 2020 Election. 

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• Pete Davidson joined Colin Jost and Michael Che for "Weekend Update" during NBC's "Saturday Night Live" to talk about the controversies surrounding R. Kelly. 
• Davidson called Kelly a "monster" before comparing the rapper's supporters to those of the Catholic Church. 
• "If you support the Catholic Church, isn't that like the same thing as being an R. Kelly fan?" Davidson said. "I don't really see the difference, only like one's music is significantly better." 
• Kelly is currently facing sexual abuse charges, while the Catholic Church has been hit with multiple abuse charges throughout the years. 
• Davidson also used his time to hit back at people criticizing his age difference with new girlfriend Kate Beckinsale by pointing out actors in relationships with big age gaps, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Goldblum, and Harrison Ford. 
• Watch the full clip below. 

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• "Saturday Night Live" took a break from parodies of top lawmakers Saturday night to take aim at R&B singer R. Kelly's recent legal troubles. 
• With cast member Kenan Thompson as Kelly, Leslie Jones portrayed Gayle King for a take on the explosive interview in which Kelly vehemently denied allegations of sexual abuse. 
• The sketch focused on Kelly's flat denial of the allegations that have dogged him for decades, telling Jones' King to "just call me victim." 

"Saturday Night Live" took aim at R&B singer R. Kelly's current legal woes after a fiery week for the troubled artist. 

With cast member Kenan Thompson as Kelly, Leslie Jones portrayed Gayle King for a take on the explosive interview in which Kelly vehemently denied allegations of sexual abuse. 

After Jones introduced Thompson as Kelly, he said: "Please, just call me victim." 

"I'm not going to do that," Jones replied.

Thompson said he took the interview to "remove all the doubt" about him being a "monster." In reality, Kelly has been dogged by allegations of sexual abuse and manipulation of underage women for decades. 

"My lawyer was telling me no. But my ego, my ego was telling me yes," Thompson said, in an apparent reference to Kelly's song "Bump 'N Grind."

When Jones asked why people believe the multiple allegations that similarly say he has a harem of young girls and leads a cult, Thompson responded, "Probably because it looks like I have a harem of young girls and I started a cult."

The sketch was a light-hearted look at the explosive interview that premiered last week.

In his first interview since being charged with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse, King asked Kelly about allegations of sex with underage girls and holding women against their will. At one point, Kelly grew agitated and stood up out of his chair over King. 

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"I didn’t do this stuff," Kelly told King, as he rose from his chair and began shouting before his publicist calmed him down. "This is not me! I'm fighting for my f---ing life!"

Another segment on Kelly seemed to hit a nerve with the audience when cast member Pete Davidson appeared during "Weekend Update" and compared Kelly to the Catholic Church when saying that people should be able to enjoy artistic products without having to consider the performer's behavior. 

"If you support the Catholic Church," he said, "isn't that like the same thing as being an R. Kelly fan?"

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• Pete Davidson addressed his relationship with actress Kate Beckinsale during "Weekend Update" on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend.
• The 25-year-old defended the age gap between him and the 45-year-old actress.
• He listed a number of other celebrities in relationships with big age differences. 

Pete Davidson commented on the age difference between himself and Kate Beckinsale on Weekend Update!

One week after his passionate make-out session with Kate Beckinsale, 45, at a New York Rangers Game on March 3, Pete Davidson, 25, finally opened up about their romance on the March 9 episode of "SNL". Making an appearance on Weekend Update, Pete provided some advice for anyone wanting to comment on their 20-year age difference, saying, "Apparently people have a crazy fascination with our age difference. But it doesn't really bother us, but then again, I'm new to this, so if you have questions about relationships with a big age difference just ask Leonardo DiCaprio, Jason Statham, Michael Douglas, Richard Gere, Jeff Goldblum, Scott Disick, Dane Cook, Derek Jeter, Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee, Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, and whoever the president of France is, Mel Gibson, Billy Joel, Mick Jagger, Sylvester Stallone, Eddie Murphy, Kelsey Grammer, Larry King, Larry King, Larry King, Rod Stewart, and Donald Trump" Well put, Pete!

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We reported earlier how Pete's friends wouldn't be surprised if he popped the question to Kate soon. "Pete falls hard for girls he dates and that is something that is happening with Kate. So much so that Pete's friends are first very happy for him that he has found someone that makes him feel really great and happy," a source close to the "Saturday Night Live" comedian EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife."But [friends] are also concerned he might be diving into something too fast and too soon. But that is something that is in his nature to do in the first place, so they aren't exactly surprised.

Meanwhile, on the February 28 episode, both Jussie Smollett and Robert Kraft's scandals were made fun of by the variety show. In a legal edition of "Shark Tank," with sharks that included Michael Avenatti, Jeanine Pirro, Alan Dershowitz, Rudy Giuliani and jingle-based attorneys Cellino and Barnes, Jussie (played by Chris Redd) and Kraft (portrayed by Beck Bennett) pleaded for help with limited success.

Previously on the February 10 episode, "SNL" tackled the blackface scandal that rocked Virginia after the state's Governor and Attorney General admitting to using blackface as part of costumes. In the sketch, every Virginia state official copped up to using blackface at one point in their lives. As a frustrated Kenan Thompson attempted to run an ethics meeting, he was asked, "Does it count if you did it all the way back in the '80s?" At one point, Halsey asked if Thompson if it was acceptable to wear blackface "if you're half-black," she then qualified her remarks by saying that by "half-black," she meant dressing up as "both Michael Jacksons" for Halloween.

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• Pete Davidson compared supporting the Catholic Church to being an R. Kelly fan on a "Weekend Update" segment of "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend. 
• R. Kelly has been charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
• The Catholic Church is facing sexual abuse scandals worldwide, and recently had a summit to discuss combating the problem. 
• The Catholic Church's Diocese of Brooklyn called Davidson's joke "disgraceful and offensive" and asked for an apology. 

Officials from the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn are demanding an apology from Pete Davidson after he compared supporting the church to being a fan of R. Kelly, who is facing a number of sexual abuse allegations.

Davidson made the comment during the "Weekend Update" segment of "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend, in which he called Kelly "a monster who should go to jail forever."

"But if you support the Catholic Church, isn't it the same thing as being an R. Kelly fan?" he joked. "I don't really see the difference, except, like one's music is significantly better."

The Diocese of Brooklyn called Davidson’s joke "disgraceful and offensive," and demanded an apology from the comedian.

"The faithful of our Church are disgusted by the harassment by those in news and entertainment, and this sketch offends millions. The mockery of this difficult time in the Church’s history serves no purpose," the diocese said in a statement. "The clergy sex abuse crisis is shameful, and no one should ever get a laugh at the expense of the victims who have suffered irreparably."

Read more:Pete Davidson compared Catholic Church supporters to R. Kelly defenders on 'Saturday Night Live'

The Catholic Church is facing sex abuse allegations worldwide and recently held a summit to discuss combating such alleged behavior within its organization. Kelly has been charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

In the Diocese of Brooklyn's statement about Davidson’s joke, it said it "strives every day to ensure that sexual abuse by clergy never happens again."

"It is likely that no other institution has done more than the Catholic Church to combat and prevent sexual abuse. The insensitivity of the writers, producers, and the cast of 'SNL' around this painful subject is alarming," the statement said.

INSIDER has contacted NBC for comment.

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• President Donald Trump slammed "Saturday Night Live" for its repeated jokes about his presidency, even calling for federal regulation of the comedy show. 
• In a pair of tweets posted Sunday morning, Trump decried "one-sided coverage" by "SNL" and other late-night shows, and even called for federal investigation of the show because there "must be Collusion with the Democrats and, of course, Russia!"
• Trump was apparently set off by a rerun episode aired the night before, which featured a sketch that imagines life if he wasn't president.
• The sketch also inspired a set of tweets from the president when it originally aired in December 2018. 

President Donald Trump slammed "Saturday Night Live" for its repeated jokes about his presidency, even calling for federal regulation of the comedy show, in a pair of tweets posted Sunday morning.

The show had aired a rerun the night before that featured a sketch depicting life if he had never become president. 

Trump lamented that "SNL" and other late-night shows "can spend all of their time knocking the same person (me), over & over, without so much of a mention of 'the other side.' Like an advertisement without consequences."

Trump also called for the Federal Election Commission or the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the show, because there "must be Collusion with the Democrats and, of course, Russia!"

"Such one sided media coverage, most of it Fake News," he added. "Hard to believe I won and am winning. Approval Rating 52%, 93% with Republicans. Sorry!"

This wasn't the first time this sketch set Trump off on Twitter. When it was originally aired in December, the president said the show was a "Democratic spin machine" that should be "tested in court."

The offending sketch in question is a parody of "It's a Wonderful Life," featuring Alec Baldwin as Trump and Matt Damon as his embattled Supreme Court appointee Brett Kavanaugh. 

In the episode that was aired months after Kavanaugh's contentious testimony and eventual confirmation, Baldwin as Trump asks Damon's Kavanaugh if he reached the Supreme Court. 

"Me on the Supreme Court? With my temperament? Are you insane? Nah, nah," Damon said. "They went with that nerd, Merrick Garland."

Damon added: "But on the plus side, when I tell people I like beer, they find it charming and not like I'm threatening violence."

While defending himself against accusations of high school and college sexual misconduct in testimony, Kavanaugh repeatedly noted, "I like beer." 

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• "Saturday Night Live" used its cold open to illustrate the sphere of chaos around special counsel Robert Mueller's final investigation report.
• Alec Baldwin returned as President Donald Trump to gloat about the report, declaring that he was "free at last."
• Attorney General William Barr's summary said that while Mueller did not produce a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, the report "also does not exonerate" Trump of any criminal conduct. Mueller reportedly found no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia.

"Saturday Night Live" captured the many characters involved in special counsel Robert Mueller's final investigation report.

Alec Baldwin returned as President Donald Trump, alongside Robert De Niro as Robert Mueller and cast members Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon as Attorney General William Barr and Trump's chief counsel Rudy Guiliani.

Mueller handed in a 400-page conclusion to the two-year investigation last week, and Barr released a four-page review of Mueller's findings concerning election interference in the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice by Trump, immediately sparking calls for the full report to be made public.

Barr's summary said that while Mueller did not "draw a conclusion — one way or the other — as to whether the examined conduct constitutes obstruction," Mueller's report "also does not exonerate" Trump of any criminal conduct.

On Saturday's episode, De Niro, reading from a letter as Mueller, said that the investigation didn't have a "definite conclusion" on Trump's involvement in possible obstruction.

"But I have," Bryant as Barr interjected. "And my conclusion is Trump clean as a whistle."

Baldwin's Trump gloated about the inconclusive report, declaring he was "free at last."

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After he released his summary, Barr announced that he intends to make the special counsel Robert Mueller's final report in the Russia investigation available to Congress and the public by mid-April or sooner.

De Niro as Mueller also said he hopes the report is made public "with few redactions."

After De Niro continued that there were several "questionable instances" involving Trump associates and 34 people indicted over the course of the investigation, Baldwin's Trump continued his celebration.

"The pardons are already in the mail," Baldwin's Trump replied. "Russia, if you're watching, go to bed. Daddy won."

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• "Saturday Night Live" mocked Jussie Smollett in a skit in which cast member Chris Redd played a version of the "Empire" actor, and Sandra Oh played his lawyer.

• The skit featured a faux meeting of Fox producers, to discuss Smollett's future after prosecutors dropped charges after police accused the actor of faking a hate crime against himself.

• Redd's Smollett, wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, claimed in the skit that he was late because he had been attacked again.

• He displayed clues about his attackers, including a box of teeth whitening strips, three red Ks, and a Teletubby doll.

• In the skit, Redd's Smollett is fired, but the actor returns to the room claiming he had been attacked again.

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• "Killing Eve" star Sandra Oh hosted "Saturday Night Live" this weekend.

• In her opening monologue she celebrated her one-year anniversary of becoming a US citizen.

• The Canadian-born actress marked the special occasion by saying: "I love Americans. You are confident and direct. And now that I am an Asian-Canadian-American, I'm trying to learn a thing or two about tooting my own horn."

• "SNL" cast member Leslie Jones joined Oh onstage to teach her how to take a compliment and gain confidence.

• In her attempt at a brag, Oh said: "I'm Sandra Oh and I cry more than any person you've ever met."

• Watch the full clip below.

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• Kit Harington is presenting "Saturday Night Live" on April 6.
• The "Game of Thrones" actor talked about his upcoming appearance on SNL on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" Thursday night.
• Harington said he called his mother after he found out he'd be hosting the variety show, which turned out to be a mistake.
• Telling his mother the show involved stand-up comedy, she apparently replied: "But you're really good at the sad stuff?"
• Harington's SNL appearance comes just over a week before the"Game of Thrones" final season begins on HBO.
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You're not funny, Jon Snow.

That seems to be the message from Kit Harington's mother, at least.

Appearing on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Thursday, Harington shared his mother's words of not-so-encouragement when she heard her son would be presenting "Saturday Night Live" (SNL) for the first time.

Harington is the latest in a string of "Game of Thrones" stars who are currently doing the talk show rounds in the build-up to the HBO show's eighth and final season.

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Harington told Fallon that when he found out he was hosting the show, he called his mom for advice instead of the likes of Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage (who hosted back in 2016).

He recalls telling her that SNL was "like stand-up comedy," to which she replied reassuringly, "Well, you don't do that."

Apparently, she even added: "But you're really good at the sad stuff?"

"I was like, 'Thanks mom!'" Harington said.

"You've got to call me next time," Fallon said, "I'll pump you up."

Watch the full clip below:

Harington hosts SNL this weekend with musical guest Sara Bareilles, just over a week before the "Game of Thrones" final season begins on HBO.

On Wednesday, SNL released a teaser for Harington's appearance wherein Leslie Jones played out various "Game of Thrones" fantasies starring the actor.

Harington recently reflected on his nine-year run on HBO's "Game of Thrones" in a cover story for Variety, and described feeling a distinctly different vibe while filming the final season.

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"It's like when you're at a party, and the party's getting better and better. Then you reach this point of the party where you're like, it's peaked. I don't know what I could find more from this," he said.

"You realize, well, there isn't more. This is it. And the 'more' that you can find is actually in the work rather than the enjoyment surrounding it."

Harington also revealed how this tonal shift affected the friendships between cast members.

"You have these in-jokes, and these relationships that thrive for eight years," he said. "That's a long time for those jokes to be going, and they never felt old or tired. In the last season, I was like, these are getting tired now."

"And I think they got tired because we could see the end coming. That's a way of emotionally detaching from something: relationships very slightly starting to strain, just on the edges, just frayed. Now everyone loves each other again."

The eighth and final season of "Game of Thrones"will premiere on April 14, 2019. You can follow along with INSIDER's coverage of the show here.

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• "Saturday Night Live" took aim at the multiple allegations of inappropriate touching against former Vice President Joe Biden.
• Veteran cast member Jason Sudeikis returned to the show to play Biden and ignored a lesson on appropriately greeting women from Kate McKinnon.
• The sketch came a day after Biden made his first public appearance after the allegations, during which he joked about getting permission to hug and touch people.
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"Saturday Night Live" took on the multiple allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden from women who said he touched them inappropriately with a sketch depicting an unsuccessful interaction workshop.

Over the course of a week, seven women have publicly said that Biden inappropriately touched them and invaded their personal space during various campaign events and other public appearances in past years.

Veteran cast member Jason Sudeikis returned as Biden, who was counseled by aides played by the show's Cecily Strong and Kenan Thompson.

"Joe's a good guy and he means well, he's just a little behind the times," Strong said.

Thompson agreed, adding that the allegations must be "tearing him up inside," before Sudeikis burst in the door and closely hugged them both.

"I'm a hugger, I'm a kisser and I'm a little bit of a sniffer," Sudeikis' Biden said after Strong confronted him about his behavior. "The last thing I want to do is offend anyone!"

Sudeikis' Biden then pulled cast member Kate McKinnon, appearing as a consultant arriving for a lesson, close so their noses touched for a "human connection."

"Ideally, when you meet a female stranger for the first time, there would be no kisses or hugs of any kind," McKinnon said, face-to-face with Sudeikis.

"But that's the human connection. That's my whole thing," Sudeikis said.

That was the same phrase Biden used in a video released Wednesday, where he acknowledged and explained his conduct, saying he had "always tried to make a human connection."

"That's my responsibility, I think," Biden said in the video. "I shake hands. I hug people. I grab men and women by the shoulders and say 'you can do this.' Whether they're women, men, young, old, it's the way I've always been. The way I've tried to show I care about them and I'm listening."

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After several minutes of discussion that included McKinnon warning Sudeikis to not tickle a woman's palm during a handshake, McKinnon's consultant asked Sudeikis' Biden if he understood the points she's made.

"Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, not really, no," he responds. "The important thing is I'm listening, I hear you and I feel you, I feel you. Let's hug it out America. 'Biden and some woman in 2020' Right? We can do this!"

The episode's "Weekend Update" segment also commented on the allegations, with host Michael Che describing his non-surprise that four women had said Biden touched them inappropriately, saying, "yeah, I can see that."

"He looks like one of those uncles that call summer 'sundress time,'" Che said.

Host Colin Jost took issue with Biden's video, which he said was "weird" because Biden appeared to be sitting casually in what "was supposed to be an apology, not a reenactment."

"Nothing puts a woman at ease like a man on a leather couch who's already taken off his tie," Jost said.

The episode came just a day after Biden made his first public appearance since the allegations at a conference in Washington, DC, during which he made multiple jokes about being allowed to touch and hug those near him during the event.

Though Biden has been receptive to the allegations and subsequent criticism, he's been defensive about his behavior.

"In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort," Biden said in a statement after the initial allegation from a Nevada state politician. "And not once — never — did I believe I acted inappropriately. If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention."

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• "Game of Thrones" star Kit Harington hosted this week's "Saturday Night Live" ahead of the show's highly anticipated premiere of its final season on April 14.
• Harington's opening monologue touched on the show's end and what's next for his career, before he was interrupted by a series of audience members who were hungry for spoilers.
• The first audience member to stand up during the monologue pressed Harington to tell the crowd how the show ends before he was escorted off-camera.
• Emilia Clarke then appeared to push Harington for "even a general sense of how it ends", saying she couldn't remember.
• Other disappointed audience members included a gang of Harry Potter fans, actor John Bradley inquiring about the fate of his character Samwell Tarly, and "SNL" cast member Pete Davidson dressed as the Night King.
• Fellow "GOT" star Rose Leslie, Harington's wife, made the monologue's final appearance to ask how they would make money once the show ends.
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