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Weekend Update: The Devil on His Latest Accomplishments

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The setup

Returning host Jason Sudeikis revives his cheerful Devil at the Weekend Update desk, where he brags to Colin Jost about the disasters and annoyances he has been quietly arranging.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Colin Jost welcomes the Devil back to Weekend Update after several years away, and the red-caped guest explains that business has been booming. He runs through a list of side projects from natural disasters to a social app for children, describes Florida as his testing ground, claims credit for recent sports results and keeps a famous quarterback's soul in a portrait. A text from a disgraced royal interrupts him, and he takes ownership of cryptocurrency, vaping and pop-up web ads. When Jost asks about QAnon, the Devil angrily disowns the conspiracy theorists and turns on Jost with jabs about his marriage before calming down to gush about a memorable lap dance, as Michael Che joins the sign-off.

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Highly quotable.

Florida's where I beta test a lot of my new ideas.

I actually keep his soul trapped in this portrait of him.

Bitcoin, that's all me. I invented vaping.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

SNL Archives counts this as the sixth Weekend Update visit by Jason Sudeikis’s Devil, who returned to the desk while Sudeikis was hosting the episode.

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