"I guess they kept running out of black ink," Michael Che jokes about the Trump administration's piecemeal effort

After a two-week hiatus, “Saturday Night Live” returned with a new episode Dec. 6 with host Melissa McCarthy and musical guest Dijon, marking McCarthy’s sixth time hosting, her first since 2017, and Dijon’s “SNL” debut.

On Dec. 20, returning host Ariana Grande will be back to helm the annual SNL Christmas show, supported by Cher as musical guest. Grande has hosted the show twice before, while Cher has only appeared as musical guest once, in 1987 (she also made a cameo on "Weekend Update" in 1992).

"SNL employs some of the most talented production staff in all of live television and they resort to generative AI for an image of an old person at a casino??"

"Cher, killing it at 79," another quipped. "Idc [I don't care] about her lip syncing, it's late, she's 80, she just wants to have some fun," one watcher wrote in the YouTube c omments.

SNL's Michael Che said Donald Trump's picks for Kennedy Center honors—KISS, Gloria Gaynor and Sylvester Stallone—raises one question.

The line referred to the previous settlements that media companies have made with Trump. In July, Paramount settled a flimsy lawsuit for $16 million, a move that late-night hosts such as Stephen Colbert alleged was a “big fat bribe” given to secure their merger with Skydance Media.