'SNL' jokes about Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for the second week in a row. Is Arizona laughing?

Aidy Bryant isn’t the only person from Arizona who keeps showing up on “Saturday Night Live.”

True, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema isn’t a cast member. She’s not the one making jokes, but the one they’re making jokes about. Saturday’s show made two weeks in a row. And this time, the jokes were actually pretty funny.

They weren’t the only Arizona-related jokes Saturday. Jake Angeli, known as the QAnon Shaman, was also the butt of a joke.

Sinema has become a reliable source of ridicule. On the Jan. 15 show it was the cold open, in which James Austin Johnson, playing President Joe Biden, compared her to a Spider-Man villain. Saturday, it was the “Weekend Update” segment.

Che made Sinema jokes during the 'Weekend Update' segment

Michael Che, co-host with Colin Jost of the news parody, made his first joke of the segment about Sinema.

“Senate Republicans lined up to shake Kyrsten Sinema’s hand after she voted against changing the filibuster to pass voting rights,” Che said. “Ah, the U.S. Senate, keeping Black folks down with a quiet handshake since 1787.”

Dang.

Che followed with this:

“Sen. Bernie Sanders suggested that he supports replacing fellow Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. Damn, Bernie, stabbing your own co-workers in the back? That’s unforgivable. I would never suggest Colin should be fired, no matter how much better I think (cast member) Bowen (Yang) would be.”

Sinema is not leaving the headlines anytime soon. Saturday morning members of the Arizona Democratic Party’s executive committee passed a resolution to censure Sinema over the filibuster vote.

No joke there.

Later on the show former cast member Will Forte, who hosted (Maneskin was the musical guest), made the shaman joke. The show relentlessly plugged “MacGruber,” a comedy on NBC’s streaming service Peacock, in which Forte plays the title character, based on an old “SNL” sketch. The running joke was that he’s fallen into a right-wing conspiracy rabbit hole.

Will Forte turned MacGruber into QAnon shaman

During the last “MacGruber” sketch, in which he once again unsuccessfully tried to defuse a bomb, Forte's MacGruber was dressed like Angeli in his full-on shaman regalia, horned hat and all. As Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe urge him to get to work on the bomb, Forte goes off on all sorts of right-wing talking points.

“Look, I’m just a shaman,” he said. “All I can do is pray for you, take up arms against you and keep the oath I took to protect this country, because I am an Oath Keeper, and boy I’m proud of that, which I guess makes me a Proud Boy.”

Sigh. They’re never going to stop making fun of Arizona, are they? No one is.

As for Sinema, what’s next on “SNL?” Cold open, “Weekend Update” — unless there’s an entire sketch about her, they’re running out of ways to make fun of her.

Or are they? Next week Willem Defoe is scheduled to host, with Katy Perry as the scheduled musical guest. Maybe they can work her into Defoe's monologue or one of Perry's performances for the hat trick.

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