Tucker Carlson Returns to Weekend Update to Review Summer Movies
Variety • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Jeremy Culhane reprised his popular Tucker Carlson impression on “Saturday Night Live” Season 52’s first “Weekend Update” segment, humorously critiquing major summer blockbusters.
- Carlson mockingly discussed films like “The Odyssey,” praising it for portraying Greeks positively, and joked about the specialty Imax 70mm format as the “gay inch.”
- He satirized “Spider-Man: No Way Home” with a fabricated title “Spider-Man: Brand New Gender,” poking fun at gender themes and Zendaya’s single-name status.
- Carlson also humorously critiqued “Obsession” as a horror movie about heterosexual relationships and compared “Minions and Monsters” to Trump’s cabinet, joking about turning on Trump.
- The segment concluded with a risqué joke about “Toy Story 5,” continuing Culhane’s third appearance as Carlson on “SNL.”
