Saturday Night Live newcomer Jane Wickline stole Colin Jost’s thunder during this week’s “Weekend Update,” premiering a satirical ditty that explored Gen Z’s attitude toward partying.
After Jost introduced a statistic that detailed how 71% of young people have cut back on going out, Wickline appeared with a keyboard to sing-song the aptly named track “Party,” in which she detailed a night out that isn’t quite what it seems.
“Host couple goes upstairs, they’re getting freaky at the function,” the featured cast member croons, also detailing how the overhead light has come on and the DJ has packed up their belongings.
“I am the plus-one of someone who has left,” Wickline sings in the hook, as Jost considers that the party is actually wrapping up. When he attempts to cut her off, Wickline quips: “I intend to keep singing.”
The song continues as Wickline clearly overstays her welcome through 6 a.m., the party carrying over to the next morning as a second group of “guests” — the mailman (“that must be the stripper”) and a dog-walker — comes in.
“I am told the police are on there way — more strippers!” Wickline cheerfully sings.
Ultimately, the song modifies its chorus, with lines like “I am the plus-one of a plus-one of someone who doesn’t know the host that well either,” and “I am the plus-one of the plus-two of the plus-three of the host’s landlord who has left,” and “I am the plus-one of someone I made up.”
Elsewhere in the segment, Jost and co-anchor Michael Che lobbed election-themed jokes, with the former saying, “In only 30 days, this whole nightmare will be nowhere close to over.” Meanwhile, Che joked about Donald Trump’s refusal to make public his medical records: “I bet I know what he’s hiding, but I’m not allowed to da-mentia-it,” he said.
