In this Weekend Update segment, Eddie Murphy reprises his classic SNL character Gumby — the self-important, cigar-smoking, perpetually indignant green clay figure. Gumby bursts onto the Weekend Update desk to demand respect from anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost, insisting they know who he is. He rants about his legacy, his right to smoke a cigar if he wants to, and dismisses the anchors with memorable one-liners. Murphy nearly breaks character when the audience reacts to a bit, then shushes them and snaps back into character — a moment widely praised as a display of comedic mastery. The sketch is a beloved callback to Murphy's original SNL run in the 1980s.
