Colin Jost returned as an especially rowdy Pete Hegseth in this week’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open, welcoming home sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln after nearly a year at sea.
\n\nThe Oct. 10 sketch opened with an introduction to the ship’s returning crew, who were told that before reuniting with their families, they would first have to hear from “the guy who put you on the boat in the first place.”
\n\nEnter Jost’s Hegseth, sporting an ammunition belt stocked with miniature bottles of Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, “the only alcohol designed to taste better on the way back up.”
\n\n“How are you sailors doing tonight?” Hegseth asked the crew.
\n\n“I heard awesome,” he shot back.
\n\nThe sketch took aim at reports of deteriorating conditions aboard the aircraft carrier, including plumbing issues and mental-health struggles among the crew during their extended deployment.
\n\n“I couldn’t be more proud of you. Only eight of you attempted suicide. Two of you since I started talking,” Jost’s Hegseth remarked. “You executed over 3,000 combat missions and you did it with zero casualties, zero flight mishaps and zero working toilets.”
\n\nHe then honored one particularly brave sailor who managed to hold his bladder for 300 days…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/