'Rehab won't help - he needs JAIL': SNL FINALLY comes out swinging on Harvey Weinstein - a week after being shamed for its complete silence on litany of abuse accusations
- SNL finally gets to Harvey Weinstein scandal in both a skit and Weekend Update
- In what felt like an atonement tour, the show spent ample time on Weinsetin
- Weekend Update cracked that he doesn't need sex rehab - he should be somewhere where he can't see anyone and no one can see him - jail
- Women can now say 'If he tries to Weinstein me I'm gonna cut off his Harvey'
- Another crack was about women in the older days of Hollywood sex harassment having a code word
- 'The code was he raped me. If any men were listening they'd tune us right out'
Saturday Night Live finally got around to addressing the Harvey Weinstein scandal a week after it broke and seemed to atone by spending ample time on it.
Colin Jost hit hardest during his Weekend Update segment with Michael Che. Jost gets right in with the rumors of Weinstein going to rehab- and says that wont help.
'He has been accused of multiple acts of sex assault. He doesn't need sex rehab- he needs a specific facility where no one could see him where there are metal bars... and it's a prison.'
Che comes in right behind Jost 'He looks like rolled bubble gum, chewed in cat hair.' Adding 'You assaulted a bunch of women.'
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'He doesn't need rehab, he needs jail' Colin Jost hit hard at the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal on SNL's Weekend Update
Skit: Panel of Marion Cotillard, Viola Davis and fictional character Debette Goldry discussing the Weinstein scandal
'It's like a full season of Law & Order.' Then he says women are going to use his name as a saying now: 'If he tries to Weinstein me I'm gonna cut off his Harvey.'
Before that in a skit featuring women in the cast playing Marion Cotillard, Viola Davis and fictional character Debette Goldry had a panel on sexual assault in the entertainment industry.
Goldry played by Kate McKinnon tells a fictional tale of Weinstein harassing her.
'I had one meeting with him and when I arrived he was naked hanging upside down from monkey bars.'
'He was trying to make me believe his genitals were his face, it almost worked. The similarity is uncanny.'
Secret code for dangerous men in Hollywood back in Ms. Goldry's day: 'The code was he raped me. If any men were listening they'd tune us right out'
The Goldry character says in her Hollywood heyday women would have a secret code to warn other women about men who were jerks.
'The code was 'he raped me.' If any men were listening they'd tune us right out.'
Goldry said she worked with Alfred Hitchcock too.
'I did two days of filming with Alfred Hitchcock- he put his whole fist in mouth. In his defense, I was very blonde at the time.'
The fictional Goldry wrapped up the skit, actually quite seriously. 'Violence against women is everywhere damn it, not just women in Hollywood. Pandora's Box is open now, and Pandora is pissed.'
Last week's SNL show was a different story however, as Weinsetein had broken Thursday- there was no mention of the scandal.
Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels seemingly admitted the show chose not to roast Harvey Weinstein because the embattled film heavyweight is from New York.
When Michaels was asked as he was leaving SNL's after-party at 4am last week, why the show avoided the Weinstein controversy, the producer smiled and responded: 'It's a New York thing.'
Harvey Weinstein arrives at his home in NYC's West Village last week after revealing he has had 'really tough conversations' with his family after the allegations of sexual harassment against him
Michaels was escorted to a waiting black vehicle (above). It has since been revealed that SNL did use a Weintein joke during the dress rehearsals last week, but it never made it to air
The show had earlier been criticized for not mentioning the sexual harassment allegations leveled against Weinstein this week.
But DailyMail.com learned that the cast did try out a Weinstein joke during dress rehearsal - it just never made it to air.
'I remember a joke being made about him during weekend update... I don't remember the joke, I just remember that it got a big reaction from the audience,' an audience member revealed.
SNL regularly pokes fun of President Donald Trump and he has previously lashed out at the show for their impersonations of him.
Trump also hails from New York but that hasn't stopped him from being a SNL target.
Social media users were quick to slam the show's hypocrisy in not going after one of Hollywood's biggest players following the allegations.
'Why didn't big mouth Michael Che say anything about Harvey Weinstein on SNL 'Weekend Update'? He's got so much opinion about everything else,' Pastor Darrell Scott tweeted.
Another person tweeted: 'That is why the political left is OK w/ abandoning but the celebrity left (SNL late night hosts) isn't.'
'Really?! NO mention of Harvey on SNL WeekendUpdate?,' another user wrote. 'This is starting to feel like a conspiracy...'
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